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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 convenient, 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 accordingly, as provided in Regulation 9.

14. 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 the hereinbefore mentioned Acts.

15. 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 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 published 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 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 notwithstanding 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 term “electoral district,” where used herein, shall mean the Maori electoral districts as defined in the Schedule to “The Maori Representation 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 Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872.”

19. Wherever in these regulations it is provided that the Governor shall or may make any appointment, 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 members for the electoral districts constituted under the first above-mentioned Acts, and to all matters incident 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 representation of any such electoral districts.

21. The provisions of sections fifty-two to fifty-seven, both inclusive, of “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1881,” shall be deemed to be implied herein as fully and effectually as if they were expressly set forth.

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FORM A.

I [A.B.], Returning Officer for the Maori Electoral District [or one of the Deputy Returning Officers or Registration 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 substitute] 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.

Tangata e pootitia ana :

Kai-titiro :

Candidate voted for :

Witness :

………………Returning Officer.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honourable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

WM. ROLLESTON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBUHY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.