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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

vince of Westland, under the fifty-third and seventy-
seventh sections of the said Act, shall be exercised,
performed, or done by

JAMES ALEXANDER BONAR, Esq.,
the Superintendent of the said Province, as and in
manner by the said Act required: Provided that
this order shall only remain in force so long as the
said James Alexander Bonar shall be and remain
such Superintendent as aforesaid, or until other pro-
vision in that behalf shall be made by the Governor
under the powers aforesaid.

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 at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Delegation of Governor's Powers under "The Con-
stabulary Force Ordinance, 1868," to the Superin-
tendent of the Province of Westland.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Constabulary Force Ordi-
nance Amendment Act, 1868," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to
time, to delegate to any person or persons all or any
of the powers conferred on or vested in the Governor
by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor of New
Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legis-
lative Council thereof, intituled "An Ordinance to
provide for the Establishment and Maintenance of a
Constabulary Force," and to restrict any such dele-
gation so as to enable the person or persons named
therein to exercise the powers aforesaid only within
any Province, County, or other Division of the Colony,
to be specified and described in such delegation:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the powers and authorities in that behalf
vested in me, do hereby delegate to

JAMES ALEXANDER BONAR, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Westland, all the
powers conferred on or vested in the Governor by
virtue of the said Ordinance, intituled "An Ordinance
to provide for the Establishment and Maintenance of
a Constabulary Force;" and I do hereby restrict this
delegation so as to enable the said James Alexander
Bonar to exercise the powers aforesaid only within
the Province of Westland aforesaid.

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 Wellington, this nine-
teenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Appointing day for Election of Councillors for
Borough of Thames.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that for the first
election of Councillors under the said Act in every
borough in which no Councillors shall as yet have
been in office, those persons enrolled on any electoral
roll which, under the provisions of "The Registration
of Electors Act, 1866," shall for the time being be in
force, whose qualifications are in respect of lands
and tenements situate within the borough, and none
other, shall, on such day as the Governor shall
appoint, not being less than forty days after the
same shall have become such borough, and in the
manner therein mentioned, elect the whole number of
Councillors by the said Act assigned to such borough;
and by the said Act it is also provided that every
election of Councillors for any borough not divided
into wards shall be held by and before the Mayor of
the borough, and that if at any time there shall be no
Mayor, the Council of the borough, or, if there be no
such Council, the Governor, may and shall appoint
some person by and before whom such election shall
be conducted:

And whereas Thames was, by Proclamation
bearing date the fifth day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-three, constituted a
borough under the said Act:

And whereas it has been made to appear to me
that there is no Mayor of the said borough, nor any
Council of the said borough, and the said borough
is not divided into wards:

Now know ye that I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pur-
suance of the powers vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby appoint the thirteenth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, to be the
day whereon the first election of Councillors for the
Borough of Thames shall take place, and

WILLIAM FRASER, Esq.,
to be the person by and before whom the said election
shall be held.

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 Wellington, this nineteenth
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Vaccination Districts constituted.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Health Act, 1872,"
it is, among other things, provided that the
Governor may from time to time divide New Zealand,
or such part thereof as he shall think fit, into con-
venient districts for affording increased facilities for
vaccination, and from time to time to alter the
boundaries of any such districts heretofore formed
or hereafter to be formed: And whereas it is ex-
pedient that the districts hereinafter mentioned
should be constituted under the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,