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1463

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1886.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1886.

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 appoint

GEORGE THOMAS WILKINSON, Esquire,

to be Returning Officer for the Western Maori Electoral District, under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE.

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

Native Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1886.

THE following writ for the election of a member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand for the Western 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, Queen:

To GEORGE THOMAS WILKINSON, Returning Officer for the Western 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 Western Maori Electoral District: And We do hereby further require and command that you cause the nomination of the said member to be at

WHANGANUI,

on the second day of December, and the polling, in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling-places on the twenty-third day of December, 1886; 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 twenty-fourth day of January, 1887.

In witness whereof our trusty and well-beloved William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Our Army, Knight Grand Cross of our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, has caused the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

(L.S.)

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 Western 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:”—

Coromandel—Courthouse.
Manaiā (Hauraki)—Runanga House.
Mercury Bay—Police Station.
Wairoa (Hauraki)—Hori te Whetuki’s House.
Waiheke Island—Ropata te Rou’s House.
Shortland—Old Courthouse.
Miranda—Schoolhouse.
Te Hoe a Tainui (Piako)—Runanga House.
Hikutaia (Thames)—Mr. William Greer Scott’s House.
Ohinemuri—Public Hall, Paeroa.
Te Aroha—Courthouse.
Waterford (Katikati)—Courthouse.
Tauranga—Courthouse.
Rangiwaewa (Tauranga)—Akuhata Tupaea’s House.