THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

343

Warrant abolishing Polling Places and appointing
others in lieu thereof.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

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, certain places were appointed Polling
Places for the District of Coleridge 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 Alfred Arney,
the Officer Administering the Government of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in
me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish all
existing Polling Places for the District of Coleridge
for the Election of Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and do appoint in lieu thereof—

For the District of Coleridge:
School Room, junction of Hororata and Old
South Road;
School Room, Hororata Downs;
School Room, Kowai Pass;
Police Station, Ashburton Township.
And I do also hereby abolish the existing Principal
Polling Place for the above District for the Election
of Members of the House of Representatives, and do
appoint in lieu thereof—
School Room, junction of Hororata and Old
South Road.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the
Officer Administering the Government,
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 twentieth day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.

DONALD MCLEAN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

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, certain places, viz. :—

For the District of Caversham:
The School House, Caversham;
For the District of Kawarau:
House of Louis Grant, Bendigo;
For the District of Tuapeka:
Lancaster's Store, Beaumont Ferry;
For the District of Aparima:
John Howell's house, Flint's Bush;
were appointed Polling Places for the Province of
Otago for the Election of Members of the Provincial
Council thereof:
And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the
Officer Administering the Government of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in
me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the
above-named Polling Places for the above named
Districts in the Province of Otago for the Election
of Members of the Provincial Council, and do appoint
in lieu thereof—

For the District of Caversham:
The Drill Shed, Caversham.
For the District of Kawarau:
Josiah Mitchinson's Store, Bendigo.
For the District of Tuapeka:
The School House, Beaumont Ferry.
For the District of Aparima:
The School House, Flint's Bush.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer
Administering the Government, 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 twenty-sixth day of
May, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

DONALD MCLEAN,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Warrant abolishing Polling Places and appointing
others in lieu thereof.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

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 Dis-
trict, 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