JAN. 5.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Chairman shall hold office until the election of his
successor.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present
   at the time appointed for holding the same, the mem-
   bers present shall choose some one of their number
   to be Chairman of such meeting.

7. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or other-
   wise, the office of Chairman shall be or become
   vacant, the members may at any monthly or special
   meeting appoint a Chairman.

8. All questions shall be determined by the ma-
   jority of votes of the members of the Board present
   at a meeting.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating the Rodney Election.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of January, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS in pursuance of the provisions of
"The Regulation of Elections Act, 1881,"
the Clerk of the Writs caused to be issued to the
Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Rodney a writ directing him to proceed according to
law to the election of a member to serve in the
House of Representatives for the said district: And
whereas such writ should have been returned to the
Clerk of the Writs on or before the nineteenth day
of December, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one: And whereas such writ was transmitted
by telegraph, in pursuance of the powers con-
tained in sections fifty-two to fifty-seven, both
inclusive, of the said Act: And whereas the said
Returning Officer, being under the impression that
the original of the said writ would be sent to him as
well as the telegraphic copy thereof, and that the
return should be made on the said original, not on
the said copy, delayed making the said return for so
long that it was not returned until the thirtieth day
of December, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one, on which day the said telegraphic copy
of the said writ was returned to the Clerk of the
Writs with an indorsement showing that Seymour
Thorne George was duly elected a member of
the House of Representatives for the said District
of Rodney: And whereas by the seventy-fourth
and seventy-fifth sections of the said Act it is
enacted that, when any accidental or unavoidable
impediment, misfeasance, or omission happens, the
Governor in Council may take all such measures as
may be necessary for removing or rectifying the
same, or may declare any or all of the proceedings
at or for any election valid, notwithstanding such
impediment, misfeasance, or omission; and that
every such Order in Council shall state specifically
the nature of such impediment, misfeasance, or
omission, and shall be forthwith published in the
Gazette: And whereas it is expedient, in pursuance
of the powers conferred by the said sections, to make
and issue this Order in Council for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, in pursuance of the powers and authorities
in that behalf conferred upon him by the said sec-
tions, and of all other powers and authorities in any-
wise enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby order
and declare that the said return to the said writ
declaring Seymour Thorne George duly elected
as a member of the House of Representatives for
the said Electoral District of Rodney, and so made
on the thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, in lieu of on or before the
nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, owing to the above-men-
tioned misfeasance or omission on the part of the said
Returning Officer, shall be valid and effectual, not-
withstanding that the period allowed by the said
writ for making the said return had elapsed.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Time for the Return of the Writ for the
Hokitika District.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of January, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS in pursuance of the provisions of
"The Regulation of Elections Act, 1881," the
Clerk of the Writs caused to be issued to the Re-
turning Officer for the Electoral District of Hokitika
a writ directing him to proceed according to law to
the election of a member to serve in the House of
Representatives for the said district: And whereas
such writ should have been returned to the Clerk
of the Writs on or before the nineteenth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one: And whereas, owing to unavoidable delay
in obtaining the voting papers from the polling-
booths at Arawata and Oakura, in the said dis-
trict, the said Returning Officer was unable to
return the said writ within the time aforesaid,
and the same has not yet been returned: And
whereas by the seventy-sixth section of the said
"Regulation of Elections Act, 1881," it is, inter alia,
enacted that, within twenty-one days after the day
appointed for doing any act, matter, or thing by that
Act required to be done on or before a day certain,
it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to
extend the time allowed for doing any such act,
matter, or thing: And whereas, therefore, it is
desirable, in pursuance of the above-recited power,
to extend the time for the return of the said writ as
hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby, in pursuance of the powers and
authorities conferred upon him by the above-recited
section, and of all other powers and authorities in
anywise enabling him in that behalf, order and de-
clare that the time within which the said writ above
mentioned, with the name of the person so elected
indorsed thereon, may be returned by the said Re-
turning Officer to the Clerk of the Writs shall be
on or before the nineteenth day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, in lieu of
the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, as specified in the said writ.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.