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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
all the powers, functions, duties, and authorities
vested in or required to be performed by the
Governor or Governor in Council by the said Act
the said Proclamation of the twenty-seventh day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two,
as aforesaid, shall be exercised or performed by

WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Esq.,

the Superintendent of the said Province of Canter-
bury: Provided, however, that this order shall only
authorize and empower the said William Rolleston
to exercise or perform such powers, functions, duties,
and authorities within such district as aforesaid so
long as he shall be and remain Superintendent of the
said Province.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Regulation
of Elections Act, 1870," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand,
from time to time, to appoint Polling Places for
each Electoral District within or within one mile
of the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such
places to be the Principal Polling Place for the
District, and all or any of such Polling Places from
time to time to abolish, and to appoint other Polling
Places in lieu of those abolished, and that every such
Warrant shall be published in the New Zealand
Gazette: Provided always that no Polling Place shall
be appointed by the Governor under the said Act
unless he shall be first satisfied that the place to be
appointed is more convenient than any other for at
least twenty electors to record their votes thereat:
And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that every election of the Superintendent or of a
Member of the Provincial Council of a Province shall
be conducted in the manner prescribed therein for
the election of Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and that the Governor shall have the
same power of appointing and altering Polling
Places and Principal Polling Places for Electoral
Districts for the election of Superintendents and
Members of Provincial Councils as, under the provi-
sions thereinbefore contained, he has for Electoral
Districts for election of Members of the House of
Representatives:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power
and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby
appoint the following place to be an additional
Polling Place for the District of the Lakes for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council of
the Province of Otago, namely,-

The School House, Shotover Bridge.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this third day
of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th March, 1872.
IT is hereby notified, that His Honor Mr. Justice
Chapman has reported, that he has appointed
WILLIAM MATHEW HODGKINS, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Electoral Districts of
Dunedin, Waitaki, Dunstan, Mount Ida, Waikouaiti,
Port Chalmers, Roslyn, Caversham, Taieri, Bruce
(or Tokomairiro), Tuapeka, Clutha, Wakatipu, and
Wakaia; and
HENRY MCCULLOCH, Esq.,
to be Revising Officer for the Electoral Districts of
Invercargill, Riverton, Mataura, and Wallace.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ARTHUR DAVID HARVEY, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Dunstan, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of 20th day of
January, and published in Gazette No. 5, of 23rd
January, 1868, vice Vincent Pyke, Esq., resigned.
W. GISBORNE.

Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by the under-mentioned
gentlemen of their offices as Trustees of the Hoki-
tika Savings Bank, viz. :-
The Honorable JAMES ALEXANDER BONAR;
SAMUEL BOYLE, Esq.; and
WALTER SCOTT REID, Esq.
W. GISBORNE.

Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
The Honorable JAMES ALEXANDER BONAR
to be Manager of the Hokitika Savings Bank, in the
room of Archibald Bonar, Esq., deceased.
W. GISBORNE.

Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be
additional Trustees of the Hokitika Savings Bank,
viz.:-
GEORGE BENNING, Esq.;
WILLIAM MOSES FORSYTH, Esq.;
GEORGE WILLIAM HARVEY, Esq.;
FRANCIS CHRISTOPHER TABART, Esq.; and
WILLIAM TODD, Esq.
W. GISBORNE.

Treasury,
Wellington, 28th March, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JOHN MCBETH, junr., Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the District of
Westland.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th March, 1872.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned appointment, viz. :-
In the Armed Constabulary Force.
Major Henry Ferdinand Turner to be an Inspector
of the 1st Class. Date of commission, 13th March,
1872.
DONALD MCLEAN.