Num. 32.

639

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1885.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1885.

Returning Officer appointed.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the existing appointment of Returning Officer for the Southern Maori Electoral District, under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” and do hereby appoint

ISAAC NEWTON WATT, Esquire,

to be Returning Officer for the said Southern Maori Electoral District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

ROBERT STOUT.

Writ for the Election of a Member of the House of Representatives.

Native Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1885.

THE following writ for the election of a member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand for the Southern Maori Electoral District, constituted under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” “The Maori Representation Act Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872,” and “The Maori Representation Acts Continuance Act, 1876,” is published in the New Zealand Gazette in accordance with regulations issued by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

By command.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under-Secretary.

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 ISAAC NEWTON WATT, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Southern Maori Electoral District—Greeting:

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of a 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 member of the said House of Representatives for the Southern Maori Electoral District; and We do hereby further require and command that you cause the nomination of the said member to be at

KAIAPoi,

on the third day of June, and the polling, in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling-places on the tenth day of June; 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 nineteenth day of June, 1885.

In witness whereof His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, 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 twentieth day of May, 1885.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

Polling-places appointed.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the following places to be polling-places for the several Maori electoral districts constituted under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” “The Maori Representation Act Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872,” and “The Maori Representation Acts Continuance Act, 1876:”

Southern Maori Electoral District—
Wakapuaka—Hemi Matenga’s House.
Wairau—Schoolhouse.
Havelock—Courthouse.
Waikawa—Schoolhouse.
Motueka—Courthouse.
Westport—Courthouse.