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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1873.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fourth clause of "The Native
Lands Act, 1867," it is made lawful for the
Governor of New Zealand, by Proclamation, to define
districts within which the operation of "The Native
Lands Act, 1865," and "The Native Lands Act,
1867," or any of the provisions thereof, shall be
suspended:

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet, Governor of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of
the above-mentioned Acts shall be suspended, and
are suspended, within the district described in the
Schedule hereto appended.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's Most
Honorable Privy Council, Governor 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-
sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

DONALD MCLEAN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Upper
Thames District, Province of Auckland, within the
following boundaries: - Commencing at Te Pourewa,
thence to Te Waipuna, thence to Huakaramu, thence
to Mangakahika, thence to Puapuatapotu, thence to
Hakihaki, thence to Ngatamahinerua, thence to
Tearoaroaparetapu, thence to Te Rakerake o Kautere,
thence to Okoukou, thence to Te Pahangahanga-a-te-
moho, thence to Waitioka, thence to Kaiupoko,
thence to Te Parapara, thence to Mangakaiwhiria,
thence to Tauwharawhara, thence to Putakakariti,
thence to Kapaahenerangi, thence to Tuaropaki,
thence along the Mangawhero, thence to Tapangahue,
thence to Takapau it comes out at Waihou, thence
to Marohapuku, thence to Paruparu, thence to
Papaneke, thence to Tarawhati, thence to Manganui-
waiteariki, thence to Te Wairere, thence to Parera-
nui, thence to Puketutu, thence to Wharekahu,
thence to Karengorengo, thence to Kaihoata, thence
to Te Rangaakuri, thence to Poukaroro, where it
joins Pourewa, the starting point.

Warrant appointing additional Polling Places.

JAMES FERGUSSON, 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
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: Pro-
vided 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 Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives, and that the
Governor shall have the same powers 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 provisions thereinbefore contained he