✨ Polling Place Appointments
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 491
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 all or any of such Polling Places from time to
time 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: 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 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 Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, 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 therein-
before contained he has for Electoral Districts for
Election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act,
do hereby appoint the following place to be an addi-
tional Polling Place for the District of Tuapeka,
for the Election of Members of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Otago, namely:—
The School House, Dalhousie, Tuapeka Mouth.
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, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this twenty-second day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
DANIEL POLLEN.
to be an additional Polling Place for the Electoral
District hereinafter specified, for the Election of
Members of the House of Representatives, namely:—
For the District of Tuapeka:
The School House, Dalhousie, Tuapeka Mouth.
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, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this twenty-second day of
August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
DANIEL POLLEN.
Warrant appointing an additional Polling Place.
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
all or any of such Polling Places from time to time 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: 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 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 Members of the House of Representa-
tives, 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 Pro-
vincial Councils as under the provisions therein-
before contained he has for Electoral Districts for
Election of Members of the House of Representa-
tives:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby appoint the following place to be an addi-
tional Polling Place for the Province of Otago, for
the Election of Superintendent thereof, namely :—
The School House, Dalhousie, Tuapeka Mouth.
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, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this twenty-second day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
DANIEL POLLEN.
Warrant appointing an additional Polling Place.
JAMES FERGUSSON, 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:
Now know ye that I, Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, the Governor of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the power and authority in me vested by
the said Act, do hereby appoint the following place
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Warrants Appointing Additional Polling Places for Tuapeka and Otago
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government22 August 1873
Polling Place, Election Act 1870, Tuapeka, Otago Province, Superintendent Election
- Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, Governor
- Daniel Pollen
NZ Gazette 1873, No 52