Numb. 89.
1179

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1879.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879.

Regulations under the Maori Representation Acts.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and
authorities enabling me in that behalf under
"The Maori Representation Act, 1867," and all
other Acts amending or continuing the same, I,
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke
the Proclamations bearing date respectively the
fourteenth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five, and the first day of May,
one thousand eight hundred snd seventy-nine, and
the regulations made thereunder; and I do further
hereby proclaim that the following regulations
making provision for the matters named in the ninth
section of the above-named Act shall be in force
until the same be revoked:—

REGULATIONS.

1. There shall be one Returning Officer for each
   electoral district, to be appointed by the Governor,
   and the said Returning Officer shall have power to
   appoint, on the occasion of the election, such Deputy
   Returning Officers and Registration Officers as he
   may deem necessary; and if, owing to illness or
   other misadventure, such officer shall be unable
   personally to attend on such occasion, he shall be
   empowered to appoint a substitute to act in his stead.

2. Every Returning Officer, Deputy Returning
   Officer, and Registration Officer, and every sub-
   stitute appointed hereunder, shall, before acting in
   his office, take an oath before a Justice of the Peace
   in the form A, and such Justice of the Peace shall
   transmit a record of the same to the Colonial Secre-
   tary.

3. Polling places shall be appointed in each
   electoral district by the Governor, and notice of
   the places appointed shall be published in the Kahiti
   for at least eight days previous to the day of nomi-
   nation.

4. The writ shall be in the form B, specifying the
   day and place of nomination, and the day on which
   the poll, if necessary, shall take place.

5. The above writ shall be forwarded to each
   Returning Officer, and a copy thereof shall be pub-
   lished in the Kahiti and New Zealand Gazette, and
   posted in such public places as shall be thought
   desirable by the Returning Officer.

6. On the day of nomination, so to be fixed as
   aforesaid, the Returning Officer shall preside at a
   meeting meeting to be held at noon at the appointed place,
   and shall declare the purpose for which the meeting
   is held. It shall be competent to the Returning
   Officer to declare the meeting adjourned from day to
   day till the election is completed.

7. Every candidate shall be proposed by one and
   seconded by another elector, who shall each pre-
   viously obtain from the Returning Officer a certifi-
   cate that he is qualified to vote at the election; and
   if no more than one candidate shall be so proposed
   and seconded, the Returning Officer shall declare
   such candidate duly elected, and will make his return
   accordingly.

8. In the event of there being more candidates
   than one proposed and seconded, the Returning
   Officer shall call for a show of hands, separately, in
   favour of each candidate, and after such show shall
   declare the person in whose favour the show of hands