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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Delegation under Public Health Act to
Superintendent of Taranaki.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Health Act, 1872,"
it is, among other things, enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit,
order that all or any of the powers, functions, duties,
authorities, or acts vested in, conferred on, or
authorized or required to be performed by the
Governor within any Province, district, port or place
in the Colony, by or under the fifty-third and seventy-
seventh sections of the said Act, shall be exercised,
performed, or done by the Superintendent of such
Province with the advice of the Executive Council
of such Province (if any), as in the said Act men-
tioned; subject, however, to any limitations or
restrictions as he may think fit:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir James Fergus-
son, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority enabling him under the hereinbefore in part
recited Act, doth hereby order that all the powers,
functions, duties, authorities, or acts vested in, con-
ferred on, or authorized or required to be done by
him as such Governor as aforesaid, within the Pro-
vince of Taranaki, under the fifty-third and seventy-
seventh sections of the said Act, shall be exercised,
performed, or done by

FREDERICK ALONZO CARRINGTON, 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 Frederick Alonzo Carrington shall be and
remain such Superintendent as aforesaid, or until
other provision 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 Invercargill,
this twenty-second day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Justice of the Peace under "The Municipal Cor-
porations Act, 1867," appointed.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor,
he shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be
a Justice of the Peace, by Warrant under his hand,
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is
made under the one hundred and thirty-third section
of the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during the
Mayoralty of such person, and the person so ap-
pointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment, be
authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint

JOHN MACK HUTCHESON, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Blenheim, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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 Invercargill, this twentieth day
of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Warrant appointing a 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 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 place to be a Polling
Place for the Province of Wellington, for the elec-
tion of Superintendent thereof, namely, --

Mr. Brannigan's Woolshed, Alfredton.

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 Invercargill, this twentieth
day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.