Numb. 9. 109

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 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 Hospital,
Franklin, was appointed a Polling Place for the
District of Wakatipu, for the election of Members
of the House of Representatives:

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 Polling Place for
the District of Wakatipu, for the election of Members
of the House of Representatives, and do appoint in
lieu thereof

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 twelfth 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 fifteenth section of "The
Juries Act, 1868," it is enacted that in case any
Circuit Court or sittings of the Supreme Court for
trial of civil or criminal cases, or District Court, or
Court of Sessions of the Peace, shall thereafter be
lawfully directed or appointed to be holden at any
town other than those at which Courts are now
holden, the Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court
there, if there be one, or a Jury Officer to be ap-
pointed for the jury district of such town in manner
in the said Act mentioned shall act as Jury Officer
for the jury district of such town, and such
Jury Officer, and all Justices of the Peace,
and the Registrars, Clerks, or other officers
of Courts, constables and officers of police, and
Sheriffs, shall within such time as the Governor shall
order for that occasion only do and perform all such
acts, matters, and things, in and towards preparing,
collecting, allowing, sending, and delivering the lists
of men qualified and liable to serve on juries, and
making out the jury books for every such jury district
as are thereinbefore required ordinarily to be done at
a different time or period, and all such last-mentioned
jury books shall be brought into use and the persons
whose names shall be therein set down shall be liable
to serve immediately after the same shall have been
made out by the Sheriff, and the said last-mentioned
books shall be used until new books shall have been
prepared under the provisions hereinbefore contained:

And whereas sittings of the District Court have
been lawfully directed or appointed to be holden at
Oamaru, in the Province of Otago, being a town
other than one at which Courts were then holden:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of all powers
and authorities in this behalf vested in me by the
said Act, do hereby order that the Jury Officer for
the jury district of Oamaru aforesaid, and all
Justices of the Peace, and the Registrars, Clerks,
or other officers of Courts, constables and officers
of police, and Sheriffs, shall, before the twelfth
day of March next, do and perform all such acts,
matters, and things, in and towards preparing, col-
lecting, allowing, sending, and delivering the lists of
men qualified and liable to serve on juries, and making
out the jury books for the jury district of Oamaru