Numb. 98.
1509

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1881.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1881.

Regulations under the Maori Representation Acts.
(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and
authorities enabling me in that behalf under
"The Maori Representation Act, 1867," "The Maori
Representation Act Amendment and Continuance
Act, 1872," and "The Maori Representation Acts
Continuance Act, 1876," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby revoke the Proclamations bearing date re-
spectively the twenty-second day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and the
second day of September, one thousand eight hun-
dred and 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 firstly
above-named Act shall be in force from the date of
the gazetting hereof 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, at the end hereof, and such Justice
   of the Peace shall transmit a record of the same to
   • the Colonial Secretary.

3. Polling-places shall be appointed in each elec-
   toral district by the Governor, and notice of the
   places appointed shall be published in the Kahiti and
   New Zealand Gazette for at least eight days previous
   to the day of nomination.

4. The writ shall be in the form B, at the end
   hereof, 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 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
   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.