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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Wellington, this eleventh day of July,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW.

Warrant appointing an 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 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:

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
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 Public Hall, Ohaupo.

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
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 twelfth day of July,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

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 twenty-ninth day of
June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight,
Hunter's Yards, 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 Constan-
tine, Marquis of Normanby, 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 district of Waipa,
for the election of members of the House of Repre-
sentatives.

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 Coun-
cil; 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 Wel-
lington, this twelfth day of July, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Notification of the Payment of Money on and Entry
into Negotiations for the Purchase of Native Lands
in the North Island.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the provisions of "The Government
Native Land Purchases Act, 1877," it is hereby
notified that money has been paid by or on behalf of
Her Majesty the Queen, for the purchase or acquisi-
tion of the several blocks of Native land in the North
Island which are more particularly described and
mentioned in the Schedule hereto; and, further, that
negotiations in respect of such purchases or acquisi-
tions as aforesaid have been entered into by or on
behalf of Her said Majesty.

SCHEDULE.

TE KAHAROA No. 1.

ALL that piece of land at Patea, in the District of
Taranaki, in the Provincial District of Taranaki,
known by the name of Te Kaharoa No. 1, containing
by admeasurement eight thousand seven hundred
and fifty (8,750) acres. Bounded towards the North
and East by Native land and the Whenuakura River,
forty-five thousand three hundred and fifty (45350)
links; towards the South-east by Native land, four-
teen thousand three hundred and seventy-nine
(14379) links; towards the South-west by Native
land, forty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-
five (41225) links; and towards the North-west by
Native land, twenty thousand one hundred and
ninety (20190) links. This block has passed the
Native Land Court.