Sept. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1681

name of every candidate for whom he does not intend to
vote. The voter must take care not to leave uncancelled
the names of more than one candidate, or this paper will
be invalid. The ballot-paper is to be folded up so that the
contents cannot be seen, and then forthwith transmitted
to the Returning Officer on or before [Here insert date].

(12.) The voter's name must not be written on the voting-
paper.

(13.) The ballot-paper shall contain a list of all the persons
validly nominated in the division and for the Island to which
the voter to whom it is sent belongs (and of no other per-
sons), arranged alphabetically in the order of their surnames.
Each paper shall have a number corresponding with that on
the list. The number shall be written in the left-hand
bottom corner of the paper by the Returning Officer, and
the corner folded and gummed down before being sent
out.

(14.) The ballot-paper will be sent to each member whose
name appears on the list, and each member shall, imme-
diately on receiving the ballot-paper, sign the receipt-form
which will accompany it, and forward the receipt to the
address marked upon it.

(15.) All ballot-papers shall be transmitted by post or
otherwise to the Returning Officer at Wellington, in envelopes
which will be provided for the purpose, and must reach him
not later than the ordinary course of post computed from
the day after the polling-day.

(16.) No member shall in any case be compelled to record
his vote, and no member shall canvass for votes, or attempt
in any way to influence voters.

(17.) Immediately after the last day fixed for the receipt
at Wellington of ballot-papers, the Returning Officer shall,
in the presence of the scrutineers, proceed to ascertain
the total number of votes recorded for each candidate;
and the Returning Officer shall cause the result to be
published in an official circular, and shall declare the candi-
dates obtaining the majority of votes in the respective
divisions in the respective Islands duly elected. The
voting-papers shall, after being counted, be enclosed in a
sealed packet, and be retained by the Returning Officer.
They shall not be opened unless a scrutiny be demanded,
when such scrutiny shall be conducted by the Returning
Officer and the two scrutineers. The papers will remain
in the Returning Officer's custody for two months, and will
then be destroyed. If a scrutiny be demanded, application
therefor must be made in writing to the Returning Officer
by not less than seven voters within fourteen days after the
publication of the result aforesaid.

(18.) Whenever there is an equality of votes at the elec-
tion, and the addition of one vote will entitle any of the
candidates to be elected, the Returning Officer shall himself
record such additional vote.

(19.) In the event of any dispute or question arising as to
the meaning of the regulations, or any portion thereof, for
the conduct of elections of Appeal Boards, the same shall be
referred to the Minister for determination, and his decision
shall be final and conclusive.

(20.) Appeals shall be heard at such convenient times and
places as the Board may determine.

(21.) Members of the Board shall be paid such reasonable
travelling-expenses, and be accorded such facilities for
attending the sittings of the Board, as the Minister may
determine.

(22.) Where notice of appeal has been lodged, and a per-
son, whether a party to such appeal or not, shall—
Be resident more than twenty miles from the place of
the sittings of the Board where the hearing of the
appeal is appointed to be held; or
Be about to go and remain beyond such distance until
after the hearing—
the party desiring to use the evidence of himself or of such
person at the hearing may give notice of such desire to the
Minister. Such notice shall specify the name of every
person intended to be examined.

(23.) Immediately upon receiving such notice the Minister
may appoint a Stipendiary Magistrate to take such evidence,
or may fix a time and place for such examination, and shall
transmit a copy of such notice of appointment, with a
memorandum of the time and place appointed for the
taking of such examination, to the Stipendiary Magistrate.

(24.) Notice of the intention to hold such examination,
and of the time and place of holding the same, shall forth-
with be given to the party against whom such evidence is
intended to be used.

(25.) Notices to witnesses to attend such examination,
and to produce books, papers, documents, and writings, may
issue, and the procedure of such examination shall be the
same in all respects as if such examination were the hearing
of an appeal, except as may be otherwise prescribed by
regulations from time to time.

(26.) All evidence given at such examination shall be
reduced to writing, and signed by the Magistrate before
whom it is taken, and by the persons giving such evidence
respectively, and such writing shall be forwarded by the
Magistrate to the Chairman of the Appeal Board, together
with all books, documents, papers, writings, and things
admitted in evidence, or copies thereof respectively.

(27.) The costs of such examination, together with the
allowances for witnesses, shall be fixed by the Magistrate on
the same scale as is allowed by the Appeal Board.

(28.) Such costs and allowances as fixed by the Magistrate,
will be dealt with by the Board as if the same had been
incurred at the hearing.

(29.) Every person giving evidence at such examination
shall be deemed to have given his evidence in such appeal;
and in any appeal it shall be sufficient to allege that such
examination was held under the provisions of the said Act;
and the evidence of any person given at such examination,
and having been signed by the Magistrate, shall be judicially
noticed by the Appeal Board without any further proof.

General.

61. Nothing in these regulations contained shall affect
    the probationary conditions subject to which members or
    persons were admitted into the service of the department
    within three years prior to the date of these regulations.

62. All departmental regulations and instructions in force
    at the coming into operation of these regulations are hereby
    revoked or modified in so far as they are in conflict with
    these regulations.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor
by the owner of the land described in the Sche-
dule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation
of such land contained in the Land Transfer certificate
bearing date the first day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-seven, and now contained in partition
order made by the Native Land Court bearing date the
seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has
been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said
Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers con-
ferred on me by the fifty-second section of "The Native
Land Court Act, 1894," and in accordance with the
recommendation of the Native Land Court, do hereby
order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said
Land Transfer certificate and partition order on the alien-
ation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 2 roods 26 perches,
situate in the City of Wellington, being Subdivision No. 2
of Section No. 7 of the Polhill's Gully Native Reserve, held
under partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the
17th June, 1889, in favour of Mohi Parai and Te Awhe
Parai, and containing the following restrictions: "Inalien-
able by sale or mortgage, or by lease beyond twenty-one
years."

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-second day of September, one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-seven.
R. J. SEDDON.

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by "The Land for Settlements Act,
1894," and the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of "The
Land Act, 1892," I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received
the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the
said one hundred and thirty-sixth section is provided, do
hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the
Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the
fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven, and that the said lands may be selected on
lease in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of "The Land
Act, 1892"; and I do hereby declare that the rentals at
which the said lands shall be leased shall be those mentioned
in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such
lands respectively.