THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 755

Proof of death.

32. Death may be proved by production of the
    following evidence :-
    (a.) A certificate under the hand of the medical
    attendant (if any) of the deceased during his or
    her last illness, stating the date, and place, and
    cause of death; and
    (b.) An examined official or certified copy or extract
    from the register or other official record of the
    death or burial; or
    (c.) A declaration, affirmation, or affidavit stating the
    time, and place, and circumstances of the death,
    and that no official record of the death or burial is
    to be found; such declaration, affirmation, or affi-
    davit to be made in such form and manner that
    the person making it would, under the law of the
    place where it is made (if there be any such law)
    be criminally responsible if any statement therein
    be false to his knowledge.

Proof of identity.

33. The identity of the deceased and the Insured
    shall be proved by declaration, affirmation, or affidavit
    made in the manner herein prescribed with regard to
    declarations as to proof of death, and stating the know-
    ledge or belief of the person making the same as to the
    identity of the deceased, and giving with particularity
    the grounds of such knowledge or belief.

Other proofs may be received.

34. The Commissioner may accept proofs of identity
    or death other than as aforesaid, which shall to him
    appear substantially sufficient for any of the said
    purposes.

Claims may be paid without probate, &c.

35. The Commissioner may pay any claim under a
    policy without requiring production of probate or letters
    of administration, in accordance with the following
    regulation, and he shall be thereby discharged from all
    further liability in respect of the claim so paid.

All persons to whom any such moneys as aforesaid
are paid, shall apply the same in due course of adminis-
tration.

The sum assured, to whom payable.

36. The sum assured, upon the death of the Insured,
    shall, upon satisfactory proof of his or her death, be
    paid to such person as shall have been nominated by
    the Insured in a writing deposited with the Commis-
    sioner (such person being the husband, wife, father,
    mother, child, brother, sister, or niece of the Insured);
    or, if no such nomination shall have been so deposited,
    or having been so deposited shall have been withdrawn,
    or if the person nominated shall have died before the
    Insured, then to any person who can prove him or her
    himself, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, either to
    be the husband, widow, father, mother, child, brother,
    sister, or niece of the Insured, or to be entitled to the
    effects of the Insured under his will (if any), or under
    the Statutes for the distribution of the effects of in-
    testates, or to be entitled to obtain probate of the will
    of the Insured, or to take out letters of administration
    of his property, although no probate or letters of
    administration have been taken out.

Form of nomination of person to receive the sum assured.

37. Every nomination under the preceding Regula-
    tion, to be valid and effective, shall be signed by the
    Insured making it; and his signature shall be attested
    by at least one witness, whose residence and calling shall
    be fully described. Any such nomination as above may
    be at any time revoked; and upon every occasion of a
    nomination being revoked, the revocation to be effected

shall be in writing, and signed and witnessed as in
the case of a nomination being made, and shall be
deposited with the Commissioner previous to the
death of the Insured.

And in every case of a nomination being revoked,
as well as in every case of the death of a nominee
in the lifetime of the Insured, it shall be lawful to
make a new nomination as before, upon the payment
of a fee for the same not exceeding 2s. 6d.

Proof of claim to be produced.

38. All proofs evidencing the right of any person
    to receive any money under any policy, shall be pro-
    duced to the Commissioner without unnecessary
    delay, or to such person as he shall in each case
    appoint, and shall be made at the expense of the
    person tendering the same.

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 first day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,

The Booth on North Beach, at mouth of Haast
River,

was appointed a Polling Place for the Province of
Westland, for the election of a Superintendent and
Members of the Provincial Council 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 the above-named Polling Place
for the Province of Westland, for the election of
a Superintendent and Members of the Provincial
Council thereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, 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 Wel-
lington, this eleventh day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.