Numb. 67.

983

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1878.

Warrant appointing additional Polling-place.

NORMANBY, 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 ap-
pointed by the Governor under the said Act, unless
he shall be first satisfied that the place to be ap-
pointed is more convenient than any other for at
least twenty electors to record their votes thereat:

Now know ye that I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, 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 an additional polling-place for the electoral
district hereinafter specified, for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives, namely:-

For the Electoral District of Waipa,-
The Schoolhouse, Paterangi.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; 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 eighth
day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Warrant abolishing Polling-place.

NORMANBY, 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 elec-
toral 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 sixth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five,

The Schoolhouse, Ohaupo,

was appointed a polling-place for the District of
Waipa, for the election of Members of the House of
Representatives:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same :

Now know ye that I, George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of
New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and
authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby