Numb. 71.

1039

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

Extending Time for Election of a Member for the
Enfield Subdivision, Waiareka Road Board.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the persons entitled to vote at an
election for the Enfield Subdivision of the
Waiareka Road District failed to hold an election
of a member of the District Board of the said
district on the fifth day of June last past, the day
appointed for that purpose by the Ordinance next
hereafter mentioned:

And whereas by "The Otago Roads Ordinance
1871 Amendment Ordinance, 1874," it is, amongst
other things, enacted that, if from any cause what-
ever the persons entitled to vote at any election for
any district, or for any subdivision of any district,
shall fail or neglect to hold an election of members
of the District Board of such district on the day
appointed by the said Ordinance for that purpose, it
shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by Proclama-
tion in the Gazette, to appoint a day for the holding
of such election, and an election may be held upon
the day so appointed, and the election so held shall,
for all purposes whatsoever, be deemed to have been
duly held on the day appointed by the said Ordinance
for holding the same:

And whereas by "The Abolition of Provinces Act,
1875," all the powers, duties, and functions which,
immediately before the date of the abolition there-
under, were, under or by virtue of any law not
expressly or impliedly repealed or altered thereby,
vested in or to be exercised or performed by the
Superintendent of such abolished province, either
alone or with the advice and consent of or on the
recommendation of the Executive or Provincial

Council of such province, and for the purposes of
the district included within such abolished province,
became vested in and to be exercised and performed
by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said
recited Ordinance and Act, do hereby appoint Thurs-
day, the eighth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, at twelve noon, at the
Schoolhouse, Teaneraki, as the time and place for
the holding of an election of a member for the
Enfield Subdivision of the Waiareka Road District.

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; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
the Government House, at Wellington,
this eighteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!