Numb. 52.

725

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1878.

Extension of Time for making Electors’ Roll, County of Taranaki.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of May, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Counties Act, 1876,” it is enacted that, within a period of twenty-one days before or after the day appointed for the holding of any election, or of any meeting of Councillors, or for the doing of any act, matter, or thing by the said Act required to be done on or before a day certain, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to extend the time allowed for the holding of such election or meeting of Councillors, or for the doing of any such act, matter, or thing as aforesaid, notwithstanding the day may have passed on which the same ought to have been held or done, and to adopt or cause to be adopted such measures as may be necessary to remove any obstacle of a technical or formal nature by which the carrying out of the provisions of the aforesaid Act may be impeded, and to supply any deficiency which may be required to be supplied in order to enable the said provisions to be duly carried out :

And whereas it is necessary, for the purpose of making an electors’ roll under the said Act, for the County of Taranaki for the ensuing year, to extend the times allowed by the said Act, and to authorize the measures hereinafter specified to be adopted :

Now, therefore I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Counties Act, 1876,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and for the purpose of enabling the electors’ roll for the County of Taranaki under “The Counties Act, 1876,” for the ensuing year to be made, do hereby extend the times allowed by the said Act, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, and authorize the measures hereinafter specified to be adopted, that is to say,—

The Clerk of the County, herein referred to as “the Clerk,” shall, on or before the thirtieth day of June next, do and perform all things directed by the forty-second section of the said Act.

The Council shall appoint fit persons who shall do and perform all things directed by the forty-third and forty-fifth sections of the said Act on or before the twenty-ninth day of June next. A copy of the rolls for the several ridings shall be kept, and public notice given, and such rolls be open to public inspection, as directed by the forty-sixth section, from the first day of July to the fifteenth day of July next, and persons aggrieved may do all things directed by the forty-seventh section on or before the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

The Resident Magistrate may, by public notice, appoint a time and place on or after the second day of August next, at which to hear applications as directed by section forty-eight of the said Act, and all things may be done and performed thereat which might be done at a sitting held in accordance with the said forty-eighth section. The Resident Magistrate may adjourn such Court from time to time, but such Court shall not sit after the thirteenth day of August next.

The said roll so corrected shall be signed by the Clerk, and shall come into force on the fifteenth day of August, and shall be the electors’ roll for the riding in force until a fresh roll is made.

Any copy of such roll signed by the Clerk shall be evidence that the said roll has been duly made under the provisions of the said Act, unless the contrary is proved; and no defect in the title to office of any person making, correcting, or signing such roll shall invalidate such roll.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.