Numb. 73.

721

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1873.

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
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 places to be additional
Polling Places for the District of Clutha, for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council of the
Province of Otago, namely, —

The School House, Inchclutha;
The School House, Waitepeka;
The School House, Kaihiku; and
The School House, Waiwera.

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 Christchurch, this thirteenth
day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
DANIEL POLLEN.

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
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: 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
has for Electoral Districts for election of Members
of the House of Representatives:

ERRATUM.---At page 715 of Gazette No. 72, of 18th December, in the notice of appointment of a Deputy Registrar of
Marriages, &c., for Manuherikia, for "George Reid, Esq.," read R. M. Stewart, Esq.