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DIEU ET SOIT QUIMAL PENS MON DROITE

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1872.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by 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 Polling
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, if he think fit, 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 Warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the thirtieth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the Post
Office, Mahurangi Heads, was appointed a principal
Polling Place for the District of Rodney, for the
election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that 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 abolish the above-named principal Polling
Place for the District of Rodney, for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives, and do
appoint in lieu thereof

The Public Hall, Warkworth, Upper Mahurangi.

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
February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if
he shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be
a Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand,
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is
made under the one hundred and thirty-third section
of the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the Mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment,
be authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in this behalf, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM TODD, Esquire,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Hokitika, to be a Justice of the Peace under the
one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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 seventh day
of February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
W. GISBORNE.