THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Colony, doth hereby appoint

BENJAMIN MACLEAN, Esquire, of Auckland,
in the said Colony, as and to be an Official Auditor
of the accounts of the Official Agent appointed
under "The Mining Companies Limited Liability
Act, 1865," in and for the Mining District of the
Thames Gold Fields, with all the powers and subject
to the provisions in the said in part recited Act
contained, from and after the twenty-eighth day of
October, 1873.

C. R. K. FERGUSSON, A.D.C.
(for Clerk of the Executive Council.)

Polling Places appointed.

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, certain places were appointed Polling
Places and Principal Polling Places for the Pro-
vince of Auckland, for the election of Members of
the Provincial Council of the said Province; 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
said Province for the election of Members of the
Provincial Council thereof, and do appoint in lieu
thereof-

For the District of Waiuku:
Waiuku, Court House.
Maioro, Carter's Dwelling House.
Awhitu, School House.
Pollock Settlement, School House.

For the District of Waikato:
Hamilton East, Volunteer Hall.
Cambridge, Court House.
Horatiu Township, Mill House.
Rangiriri, Quick's Stables.

For the District of Coromandel:
Coromandel, the new Court House, Kapanga
Road.

For the District of Thames:
Shortland, Resident Magistrate's Court House.
Hastings, Roger's Store, Tapu Creek.

For the District of Town of Onehunga:
Onehunga, Court House.

For the District of Eden:
Newmarket, Toll House.
Whau, Public Hall.

For the District of Tamaki:
Tamaki, St. John's College.

For the District of Pakuranga:
Otahuhu, Public Hall.
Howick, Court House.

For the District of City of Auckland West:
Auckland, Young Men's Christian Association
Building.

For the District of City of Auckland East:
Auckland, Mechanics' Institute.

For the District of Newton:
Newton, Newton Academy.

For the District of Parnell:
Parnell, Public Hall.

For the District of Waitemata:
Whau, Public Hall.
Huia, Gibbons' Mill.
" Henderson's Mill.

For the District of Takapuna:
Devonport, North Shore, Public Hall.
Lucas' Creek, the Mill, Fraser and Tinnie.
Weiti, the Store where the Court and Highway
Board sit.

For the District of Waipa:
Alexandra, the Court House.
Hamilton West, the Court House.
Ngaruawahia, the Court House.
Raglan, the Court House.
Te Awamutu, the Post Office.
Ohaupo, the School House.

For the District of Tauranga:
Tauranga, the Court House.
Maketu, the Court House.

For the District of Ramarama:
Pukekohe West, School House.
Pokeno, School House, Pokeno Hill.
Tuakau, School House.

For the District of Papakura:
Papakura, the Court House.
Wairoa, the Public Hall.
Bombay Settlement, the School House.
Pokeno, the School House, Pokeno Hill.

For the District of Turanganui:
Gisborne, the Court House.
Ormond, the Theatre.
Tolago Bay, the Native School.

For the District of Raglan:
Raglan, the Court House.
Harapipi, the Post Office.

For the District of Kaipara:
Helensville, the Court House.
Kaukapakapa, the Public Hall.
Pitoitoi, Riverhead, Mr. Keogh's house.
Weiti, Wade, the Court House.
Waiwera, Mr. John Sullivan's Private Resi-
dence.
Puhoi, The School House at the German
Settlement.

For the District of Wairoa and Mangapai:
Wairoa, House of J. A. Walker, Kopuru Saw
Mills.
Mangapai, House of W. Harrison.
Matakohe, House of Alder Fisher, junior.
Waipu North, Store of Charles Lewis.

For the District of Warkworth:
Warkworth, the Public Hall.
Mahurangi Heads, the Post Office.
Upper Matakana, the School House.

For the District of Otamatea:
Maungatauroto, the Chapel.
Paparoa, the Post Office,