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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

Amending Regulations as to Enrolment in Police Force.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of "The Police
Force Act, 1886," it is (among other things) enacted
that the Governor from time to time may make, alter, or
revoke such regulations respecting the training, arms, and
accoutrements, clothing and equipment, of such Force, and
respecting all other matters connected therewith, as may
be required for promoting the discipline and efficiency
thereof: And whereas on the seventh day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, certain regulations
were made under the said Act, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of January then instant:
And whereas it is expedient to revoke certain of the said
regulations, and make others in their place:
Now, therefore, I, Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Ad-
ministrator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited
Act, do hereby revoke the regulations numbered seven and
fifty-nine of those so made as aforesaid, and do hereby make
the following regulations in lieu thereof:

7. Applications for enrolment in the Police Force from
   men not serving in the Permanent Militia must be made on
   the proper form, and addressed to the Commissioner, and, if
   an applicant does not receive intimation that he is to join
   the Force before the 1st January next after the date on
   which the original application was made, such application
   must be renewed. In the event of an applicant failing to
   renew his application, his name will be struck off the list of
   applicants.

8. In filling vacancies in the rank of third-class constables
   preference will be given to men of good character and other-
   wise suitable, serving in the Permanent Militia, and who
   have had three years' previous service in that Force. Appli-
   cants for service in the Police Force must be not under
   5 ft. 9 in. in height, not under twenty-three nor more than
   forty years of age, with a chest-measurement of 36 in. at
   full inspiration, and must also have been efficiently vacci-
   nated.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government, this twelfth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.

T. THOMPSON.

Polling-places for General Assembly Elections abolished and
appointed.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by "The Electoral Act, 1893," it is, among
other things, enacted that the Governor may from
time to time appoint, alter, and abolish polling-places for
each electoral district within the limits thereof, and that no
polling-place shall be appointed unless the Governor shall be
first satisfied that the place to be appointed is more con-
venient than any other for at least twenty electors to record
their votes thereat:
Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
abolish the places mentioned in the First Schedule hereto as
polling-places for the electoral districts the names of which
are therein specified, and appoint the places mentioned in
the Second Schedule hereto to be polling-places for the
electoral districts the names of which are therein specified.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

POLLING-PLACES ABOLISHED.

Napier Electoral District—
The Presbyterian Schoolroom, Spit.
The Marist Brothers' Schoolroom, Shakespeare Road.
The Grammar-school, Napier Terrace.
The Sunday-school, Chaucer Road South.
The Park Racecourse Booth, Greenmeadows.
The Bethel Mission Hall, Western Spit.

Patea Electoral District—
The Schoolhouse, Hurleyville.
The Schoolhouse, Wakamara.
The Schoolhouse, Kohi.
The Schoolhouse, Momahaki.
The Polling-booth, Ngamatapouri.
The Schoolhouse, Mount View.
Mr. Hill's Residence, Palmerston Small-farm Block.
The Polling-booth, Makirikiri.

Montgomery's Woolshed, Tokomaru.
The Polling-booth, Mangamingi.
The Polling-booth, Karioi.
The Polling-booth, Bald Hill.
The Polling-booth, Jerusalem.
The Polling-booth, Turangariri.
The Polling-booth, Whareroa.
The Polling-booth, Ngamatea.
The Polling-booth, Mangamahoe.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

POLLING-PLACES APPOINTED.

Napier Electoral District—
Seymour's Hall, Spit.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government, this sixteenth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Sale of Imported Game and Native Pigeons in Marlborough
Acclimatisation District prohibited for One Year.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN exercise of the power and authority conferred by
section five of "The Animals Protection Act Amend-
ment Act, 1895," and pursuant to a recommendation made
in this behalf by the Colonial Secretary of the Colony, I,
James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare
that no game of any kind, or native pigeon, shall be sold
within the Marlborough Acclimatisation District, as defined
in the Schedule hereto, for a period of one year, com-
mencing from the date of the publication hereof in the
New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those parts of the Colony of New Zealand consisting
of the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds, together with
the Boroughs of Blenheim and Picton and the Town Dis-
trict of Havelock.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Adminis-
trator of the Government, this seventeenth day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.

J. CARROLL.

Officer under "The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,"
Wellington District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority conferred by section 9 of
"The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,"
John Pelling, of Eketahuna,
has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act
for the Counties of Hutt, Horowhenua, Wairarapa North,
Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Oroua, Manawatu, Kiwitea,
and Pohangina, and for all the town districts and boroughs
situated within the said counties.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Officers under "The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,"
South Canterbury, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th March, 1897.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority conferred by section 9 of "The
Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,"
Thomas Palmer, of Temuka;
Alexander Bissett, of Orari;
Thomas Priest, of Pareora; and
Walter Ormiston Mackay, of Temuka,