Numb. 36.
357

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873.

Extending Jurisdiction of Resident Magistrate's
Court.
G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.
(L.S.) A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in me vested in this behalf by "The
Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," I, Sir George
Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Govern-
ment of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that, from and after the
fifteenth day of June next, the jurisdiction of the
Resident Magistrate's Court for the

NAPIER AND WAIPUKURAU DISTRICT,
as the same is defined in a Proclamation bearing date
the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, shall be extended to
One Hundred Pounds.

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; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(in the absence of the Minister of Justice).
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Warrant abolishing Polling Place and appointing
another 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

ERRATUM.—In the Gazette published on Thursday, 29th May, for "No. 34" read "No. 35." The folios from 339 to 354
should be read as 354

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,

The Court House, Herd's Point, Hokianga,
was appointed a Polling Place for the District of
Mongonui and Bay of Islands 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 the
above-named Polling Place for the District of
Mongonui and Bay of Islands for the Election of
Members of the House of Representatives, and do
appoint in lieu thereof—

The School House, Herd's Point, Hokianga.

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 Wel-
lington, this twenty-eighth 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).