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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1873.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor..

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament,
passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of
the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled
"An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to
the Colony of New Zealand," the several Provinces
of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson,
Canterbury, and Otago, are thereby established, and
it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there
shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council :

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that every Provincial Council shall continue for the
period of four years from the day of return of the
writs for choosing the same, and no longer: Provided
always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of
New Zealand, by Proclamation or otherwise, to
dissolve the same whenever he shall think it expedient
so to do:

Now therefore I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by
this Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Auckland accordingly.

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 third
day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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: And whereas, by Warrants
under the hand of the Governor, certain places were
appointed Polling Places for the Province of
Auckland, for the election of Superintendent
thereof: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
same:

Now know ye that 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 abolish all existing Polling Places for the
Province of Auckland for the election of Superin-
tendent thereof, and do appoint in lieu thereof-

Auckland-Mechanics' Institute.
Alexandra-Resident Magistrate's Court.
Aratapu, Northern Wairoa-G. W. Binney's
Mill.
Bombay Settlement, Great South Road-Post
Office.
Cambridge-School House.
Coromandel-Court House.
Devonport, North Shore-Public Hall.
Gisborne-Court House.
Hamilton West--Court House.
Henderson's Mill.
Helensville-Court House.
Howick Court House.
Hastings-Fleming and Stevenson's Store.
Hokianga-Hurd's Point, School House.
Huia-Gibbon's Mill.
Kaukapakapa-Public Hall.