THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
565

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

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Dissolution of the Provincial Council of Taranaki.

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:

And whereas by "The Province of Taranaki Act, 1858," it was enacted that from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the Province of New Plymouth should be called the Province of Taranaki:

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

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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 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 therein-before contained he has for Electoral Districts for election of Members of the House of Representatives:

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 additional Polling Place for the District of Patea, for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, namely:—
The Court House, Patea.

And I do further appoint the Polling Place hereinafter mentioned to be the Principal Polling Place for the said District, namely :—
The Court House, Patea.

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

DANIEL POLLEN.

Warrant abolishing a 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: And whereas by Warrant under the hand of the Governor, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, the Block House, Hawera, was appointed a Principal Polling Place for the District of Patea for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same :