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If the voter is the Professorial Board, the voting-paper may be signed in the name and on behalf of such Board by the chairman or any two members thereof.

The vote of [Name of voter] is hereby recorded as above, this day of , 18 .

[Signature of voter.]

26. The vote of the Professorial Board shall be given at a meeting of such Board held for the purpose; and the chairman or any two members shall, in the name or on behalf of such Board, mark and sign the voting-paper in accordance with such vote.

27. The voting-paper, if delivered to the Returning Officer, must be so delivered in a sealed envelope before the day of the election, or not later than 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day; and, if posted to him, must be posted in a sealed envelope on or before that day.

28. The poll shall close at 5 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of the election; but all voting-papers shall be included and counted which are received by the Returning Officer in due course of post before the close of the sixth day after the day of the election.

29. A voting-paper shall be informal in any of the following cases, that is to say:—
    (1.) If it is not duly signed by the elector, or if the number of voting-papers signed by him exceeds one; or
    (2.) If the candidates whose names are left uncancelled exceed in number the total number of candidates for whom the elector is entitled to vote; or
    (3.) If, being personally delivered to the Returning Officer, it is not delivered at his office before the close of the poll; or
    (4.) If, having been forwarded by post, it is not received at the office of the Returning Officer before the seventh day after the day of the election; or if, from the postmark on the envelope or otherwise, the Returning Officer is satisfied that it was not posted until after the day of the election.

30. On the seventh day after the day of the election the Returning Officer shall open and examine all the voting-papers duly delivered to him or received by him through the post as aforesaid, and, after rejecting all informal voting-papers, shall ascertain the candidates (not exceeding the total number to be elected by each class of electors) who have received the greatest number of the votes of such electors, and shall declare such candidates to be elected.

31. If by reason of an equality of votes given for two or more candidates the election is not complete, the Returning Officer shall complete the election by casting lots in the presence of two persons appointed in that behalf by the Visitor in the case of the first election, and by the Council in the case of any subsequent election.

32. Forthwith after the completion of the election, the Returning Officer shall notify in the Gazette the names of the persons elected, and the respective classes of electors by whom they are elected.

33. If at any election any candidate is nominated by more classes of electors than one, he shall, before the day of the election, notify to the Returning Officer the seat he desires to hold in the event of his receiving votes qualifying him for more seats than one; or, if he fails to duly give such notification, the Returning Officer shall himself, before the close of the poll, determine the seat which such candidate shall hold in such event as aforesaid, and post to him a written notification thereof; and, on the happening of such event, the Returning Officer shall declare him elected to that seat accordingly, whereupon every other seat for which he is so qualified shall be deemed to be vacant, as in the case of a casual vacancy.

34. If any dispute or question arises touching the regularity of any election, such dispute or question shall be determined by a Stipendiary Magistrate in manner provided by “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,” all the provisions of which shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in so far as the same are applicable.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this fourth day of February, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of subsection ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction as in the said subsection mentioned: Provided that the Court shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless the Governor in Council shall by Order authorise the same to be done:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto is land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the Court should be authorised to exercise the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to determine whether or not the said land or any part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land situate in the Wanganui District, containing 1,200 acres, more or less, and known as Pouwhakarua No. 1.

T. H. HAMER,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Commissioners under “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896,” appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this fourth day of February, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Urewera District Native Reserves Act, 1896,” and of every other power and authority in that behalf enabling him, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Commissioners for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say,—

Stephenson Percy Smith, Esquire, of Wellington, Surveyor-General, and

William James Butler, Esquire, of Wellington, Judge of the Native Land Court: together with

Numia Kereru, of Ruatoki;

Mehaka Tokopounamu, of Te Houhi;

Tutakangahau, of Maungapohatu;

Hurae Puketapu, of Waikaremoana; and

Te Pou, of Waimana,

which said last-mentioned five persons are Natives of the Tuhoe Tribe.

T. H. HAMER,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this fourth day of February, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour