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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 98

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, which shall be in
    the form C, at the end hereof, and shall be signed by
    the Registration Officer at the place indicated in the
    said form, thus forming the certificate of the right of
    the elector mentioned therein to vote at such elec-
    tion, 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, 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 on the voting paper, and sign the same,
    and pass it to a Maori to be appointed by him to be
    associated with him for this purpose, who shall place
    his initials or name on such voting paper as witness.

13. The Returning Officer shall, as soon as con-
    venient, immediately after the closing of the poll,
    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 accord-
    ingly, as provided in Regulation 9.

14. The Returning Officer or his deputy shall
    have power to appoint a sufficient number of offi-
    cers 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 hereinbefore mentioned Acts.

15. In any case not provided for in these regu-
    lations, the Returning Officer or his deputy or sub-
    stitute 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 New Zealand Gazette, 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 section
    of "The Maori Representation Act, 1867," as
    amended by "The Maori Representation Act Amend-
    ment and Continuance Act, 1872."

19. Wherever in these regulations it is provided
    that the Governor shall or may make any appoint-
    ment, or do any act under any of these regulations,
    it is hereby declared 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 these regulations
    relating to the issue of writs for the election of Mem-
    bers for the electoral districts constituted under the
    first above-mentioned Acts, and to all matters inci-
    dent to any such elections, and all other provisions
    of these regulations, shall, mutatis mutandis, be
    applied from time to time, as occasion may require,
    in every case of a vacancy occurring in the represen-
    tation of any such electoral districts.

21. The provisions of sections fifty-two to fifty-
    seven, both inclusive, of "The Regulation of Elec-
    tions Act, 1881," shall be deemed to be implied
    herein as fully and effectually as if they were ex-
    pressly set forth.

FORM A.

I, [A.B.], Returning Officer for the Maori Electoral
District [or one of the Deputy Returning Officers or Regis-
tration Officers or substitute] do promise and swear
that I will faithfully perform the duties of Returning Officer
[or Deputy Returning Officer or Registration Officer or sub-
stitute] 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 Maori Electoral District, Greeting.

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of Member
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 a 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 day of 18 .

In witness whereof His Excellency , 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.

Voting Paper.

The under-mentioned person is entitled to vote at the election
of a Member of the House of Representatives for the
Maori Electoral District.
..................................................................Registration Officer.