✨ Warrants Abolishing Polling Places




1879.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1227

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 nineteenth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine,

The Schoolhouse, Port Molyneux,

was appointed a polling-place for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives for the
Electoral District of Clutha:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the power and authority in me vested by
the said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named
polling-place for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives for the Electoral District
of Clutha.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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 thirtieth day of August,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Warrant abolishing Polling-place.

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 warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the nineteenth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine,

The Public Hall, Otahuhu,

was appointed a polling-place for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives for the
Electoral District of Franklin:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the power and authority in me vested by
the said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named
polling-place for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives for the Electoral District of
Franklin.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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 first day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Warrant abolishing Polling-place.

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 warrant under the hand of the
Governor, bearing date the twenty-first day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine,

Mr. Grey's House, Longwood,

was appointed a polling-place for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives for the
Electoral District of Wallace:

And whereas it hath since been made to appear
that the said polling-place is not within or within one
mile of the limits of the said electoral district:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:
Now know ye that I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursu-
ance of the power and authority in me vested by the
said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named polling-
place for the election of Members of the House of
Representatives for the Electoral District of Wallace.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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 third day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Warrant abolishing Polling-place.

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



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πŸ›οΈ Warrant Abolishing Polling-place at The Schoolhouse, Port Molyneux (Clutha District) (continued from previous page)

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
30 August 1879
Polling place abolition, Clutha Electoral District, House of Representatives election
  • Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor
  • G. S. Whitmore

πŸ›οΈ Warrant Abolishing Polling-place at The Public Hall, Otahuhu (Franklin District)

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
1 September 1879
Polling place abolition, Franklin Electoral District, House of Representatives election, Public Hall
  • Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor
  • G. S. Whitmore

πŸ›οΈ Warrant Abolishing Polling-place at Mr. Grey's House, Longwood (Wallace District)

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
3 September 1879
Polling place abolition, Wallace Electoral District, House of Representatives election, Mr. Grey's House
  • Grey (Mr.), House used as polling-place

  • Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor
  • G. S. Whitmore