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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Abolishing Polling-places and Principal Polling-places.

HERCULES ROBINSON, 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
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 warrants under the hand of the Governor certain places were appointed polling-places
and principal polling-places for the election of Members of the House of Representatives for the electoral
districts mentioned in the Schedule hereto:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said polling-places and principal polling-places:

Now know ye that I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby abolish all the polling-
places and principal polling-places for the electoral districts mentioned in the said Schedule for the election
of Members of the House of Representatives.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 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 at Wellington, this nineteenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
G. GREY.

SCHEDULE.

Newton.
Rodney.
Waitemata.
Eden.
Franklin.
Waikato.
Waipa.
Thames.
East Coast.
Napier.

Clive.
Grey and Bell.
Egmont.
City of Wellington.
Wairarapa.
Wellington Country.
Manawatu.
Motueka.
Cheviot.
Waimea.

Ashley.
Coleridge.
Gladstone.
City of Christchurch.
City of Dunedin.
Waitaki.
Dunstan.
Taieri.
Roslyn.
Caversham.

Tuapeka.
Clutha.
Wakatipu.
Wallace.
Mataura.
Riverton.
Buller.
Grey Valley.
Hokitika.
Totara.

Appointing Polling-places.

HERCULES ROBINSON, 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
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:

Now know ye that I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the places
mentioned in the First Schedule hereto to be polling-places for the electoral districts in the said First
Schedule mentioned for the elections of Members of the House of Representatives: And I do hereby also
appoint the polling-places mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto to be the principal polling-places for the
electoral districts in the said First Schedule and in the Second Schedule mentioned for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives.