JAN. 18.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Katikati aforesaid; and towards the West by the Waihou or
Thames River to the point of commencement.

As witness the hand of his Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, this twelfth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Annual Elections of Native Assessors for Native Licensing
Districts.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the provisions of "The
Licensing Act, 1881," and "The Licensing Act Amend-
ment Act, 1882," His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government doth make the following regulations for the annual
elections of Native Assessors for the Native licensing districts
in the colony:-

REGULATIONS.

1. "Assessor" means an Assessor for the purposes of the
   Acts hereinabove mentioned.
   "District" means a Native licensing district constituted
   under the aforesaid Acts.
   "Publicly notify," or "public notice," means the publication
   in a newspaper commonly circulating in the district; and if
   there is no such newspaper, the publication by means of notices
   posted in such public places as shall be thought desirable by
   the Returning Officer.
   Notices affecting Natives shall be published in the Maori and
   English languages.

2. There shall be one Returning Officer for each Native
   licensing district, to be appointed by the Governor; and the
   said Returning Officer shall have power to appoint, on the
   occasion of any election of Assessors as aforesaid, 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.

3. Every annual election of Assessors to be held in the month
   of February shall be held by the Returning Officer without the
   necessity of any writ or other document requiring him to hold
   any such election.

4. One Assessor shall be elected for each Licensing Committee
   of an ordinary licensing district having jurisdiction within the
   boundaries of a Native licensing district; but any Assessor may
   be elected for more than one of such Committees; and the
   election of all or of any such Assessors in any district may be
   held on the same day, or on separate days, as the Returning
   Officer shall think it most convenient in each case.

5. The Returning Officer shall appoint the day and place of
   nomination, and the day on which the poll, if necessary, shall
   take place, and shall give not less than ten clear days' public
   notice thereof previous to the day of nomination.

6. Polling-places shall be appointed in each district by the
   Returning Officer, who shall give not less than two clear days'
   notice previous to the day of polling of every place so
   appointed.

7. The voters at the election shall be only such Maoris
   usually resident in the district as are qualified to vote for
   Maori representatives in Parliament. A candidate for election
   must be a Maori qualified to vote as aforesaid in some part of
   the colony, but need not be resident in the district, nor need he
   have a vote in the particular district in which he is a candidate
   for election.

8. 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.

9. Every candidate shall be proposed by word of mouth by
   one and seconded by another elector, who shall each previously
   obtain from the Returning Officer a certificate 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 shall
   publicly notify the same.

10. 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 there-
    upon 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, and publicly
    notify the same.

11. If a poll be demanded as aforesaid, the Returning Officer
    shall then declare the day on which the same shall be taken,
    being the day fixed 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.

12. If a poll be demanded, the Returning Officer shall imme-
    diately 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 A 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
    eléctor mentioned therein to vote at such election, and such
    papers may be issued at any time or times appointed by the
    Returning Officer until the close of the poll.

13. 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 Return-
    ing 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.

14. The Returning Officer shall, as soon as convenient, imme-
    diately 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 publicly notify the same.

15. The Returning Officer or his deputy shall have power to
    appoint a sufficient number of officers 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 any Act for the time being in force
    regulating the conduct of elections of members of the House of
    Representatives.

16. In any case not provided for in these 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 Representa-
    tives of other electoral districts than Maori districts.

17. Where 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 rectifying 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 notwith-
    standing such impediment, misfeasance, or omission. Every
    warrant issued under this regulation shall be published in the
    Kahiti and New Zealand Gazette, and shall state specifically
    the nature of the impediment, misfeasance, or omission.

18. The provisions contained in these regulations relating to
    the election of Assessors for Native licensing districts, and to all
    matters incident to any such elections, and all other provisions
    of these regulations, mutatis mutandis, may be applied from
    time to time, as occasion may require, in every case of a vacancy
    occurring in the office of any such Assessor.

FORM A.

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.

Tangata e pootitia ana:
Kai-titiro:
Candidate voted for:
Witness:
.........................................Returning Officer.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, this seventeenth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
JOHN BRYCE,
Native Minister.