1180
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
shall appear to have been largest; and if thereupon
a poll be not demanded by one of the candidates, or
by some elector duly certified as such, on his behalf,
the Returning Officer shall declare such person to be
duly elected.

9. The name of the person so declared to be
   elected shall be indorsed on the writ by the Return-
   ing Officer as the person duly elected in pursuance
   thereof, and the writ shall be returned by him to the
   Governor forthwith, who shall transmit the same to
   the Clerk of the Writs, to be by him forwarded to
   the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

10. If a poll be demanded as aforesaid, the Return-
    ing Officer shall then declare the day on which the
    same shall be taken, being the day fixed by the writ
    as aforesaid, and on that day the poll shall be open,
    at the places appointed as aforesaid, from nine a.m.
    to four p.m. of the same day, unless otherwise
    ordered by the Returning Officer.

11. If a poll be demanded, the Returning Officer
    shall immediately make arrangements for the issue,
    by the Registration Officer or officers at each polling
    place, of voting papers to electors, and such papers
    may be issued at any time or times appointed by the
    Returning Officer until the close of the poll.

12. On the day of the poll the electors shall enter
    one by one the polling-booth, and shall each present
    his voting paper, which shall be in the Form C, and
    in the English and the Maori language, and, when
    requested to do so, shall state the name of the
    candidate for whom he intends to vote, and his own
    name. The Returning Officer or his deputy shall
    thereupon write the name of such candidate and
    elector on the voting paper, and pass it to the
    Maori associated with him for the purpose, who
    shall place his initials or name upon the paper as
    witness.

13. The Returning Officer shall, as soon as con-
    venient, immediately after the closing of the poll,
    proceed with such of his deputies and Maoris asso-
    ciated with him as may be convenient, to ascertain
    the numbers polled for each candidate, and shall, on
    a day to be appointed by him, declare the person
    found to have the greatest number of votes to be duly
    elected, and shall indorse the writ accordingly, as
    provided in Regulation 9.

14. The Returning Officer or his deputy shall
    have power to appoint a sufficient number of con-
    stables to keep order, and to make and enforce such
    other regulations for insuring the orderly, effective,
    and impartial conduct of the election as may not be
    at variance with "The Maori Representation Act,
    1867," as amended by "The Maori Representation
    Act Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872.'

15. In any case not provided for in the above
    regulations, the Returning Officer, or his deputy or
    substitute, shall, as far as possible, be guided by the
    law and practice which obtains in relation to election
    of Members for the House of Representatives of other
    electoral districts than Maori districts.

16. Where by these regulations it is directed that
    any notice or copy of any instrument is to be pub-
    lished in the Kahiti, such publication shall be in the
    Maori language; and where by these regulations it is
    directed that any notice or copy of any instrument is
    to be published in the New Zealand Gazette, such
    publication shall be in the English language.

17. Where any accidental delay, in the issue or
    return of any writ shall have arisen, or when any
    accidental or unavoidable impediment or omission
    shall have happened, the Governor may, by warrant
    under his hand, take all such measures as may be
    necessary for removing such impediment, or rectify-
    ing such misfeasance or omission, or may declare all
    or any of the proceedings at or for any election held
    under the said Acts valid as to and notwithstanding
    such impediment, misfeasance, or omission. Every
    warrant issued under this regulation shall be pub-
    lished in the Kahiti, and shall state specifically the
    nature of the impediment, misfeasance, or omission.

18. The term "electoral district," where used
    herein, shall mean the Maori electoral districts as
    defined in the Schedule to "The Maori Represen-
    tation Act, 1867," or in any Proclamation for the
    time being in force issued under the eighth sec-
    tion of "The Maori Representation Act, 1867," as
    amended by "The Maori Representation Act Amend-
    ment and Continuance Act, 1872.'

19. Wherever in the aforesaid regulations of the
    fourteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred
    and seventy-five, it is provided that the Governor
    shall or may make any appointment, or do any act
    under any of the said regulations, it is hereby de-
    clared that he shall have the power to make such
    appointment or to do such act from time to time
    and as often as occasion shall require, and similarly
    to vary or abolish any such appointment, and to
    modify, vary, or revoke any such act.

20. The provisions contained in the above-men-
    tioned regulations relating to the issue of writs for
    the election of members for the electoral districts
    named in the first above-mentioned Acts, and to all
    matters incident to any such elections, and all other
    provisions of the said regulations as amended by
    these regulations, shall, mutatis mutandis, be applied
    from time to time, as occasion may require, in every
    case of a vacancy occurring in the representation of
    any such electoral districts.

FORM A.

I [A.B.], Returning Officer for the
Maori Electoral District [or one of the Deputy Returning
Officers or Registration Officers or substitute]
do promise and swear that I will faithfully perform the duties
of Returning Officer [or Deputy Returning Officer or Regis-
tration Officer or substitute] to the best of my ability-So help
me God.

FORM B.

VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Islands of New
Zealand, &c., Queen, to
Esquire, Returning Officer
for the
District, Greeting.

Member of

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of
the House of Representatives of New Zealand
shall take place: Now, therefore, we do hereby require and
command you to cause to be elected by the voters duly qualified
for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and
form by law and regulations in this behalf prescribed, a legally-
qualified person to serve as Member of the said House of
Representatives for the
Maori Electoral District: And
we do hereby further require and command that you cause the
nomination of the said Member to be at
, on the
day of , and the polling , in case it shall
be required, to be at the several polling-places, on the
day of
, and that this our writ, with the name of the
person so elected indorsed thereon by you, shall be returned to
us here on or before the
In witness whereof His Excellency Sir Hercules George
Robert Robinson, the Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of New Zealand, has caused the Public
Seal of the Colony of New Zealand to be hereunto
affixed, at Wellington, the day of
18
.Governor.

FORM C.
Pukapuka Pooti.

Ko te tangata Maori kei raro nei tona ingoa e marama ana ia
kia pooti a te whakatunga o te tangata mo te Takiwa Pooti
Maori Whaka-te
hei reo mo ratou Whaka-Maori ki
roto ki te Runanga Nui o Niu Tireni.