Num. 97.

2155

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1899.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1899.

Returning Officers appointed for Maori Electoral Districts.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

ROBERT STOUT.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Electoral Act, 1893,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the following persons to be Returning Officers for the Maori Electoral Districts hereinafter mentioned :—

For the Northern Maori Electoral District—
John Bernard Williams.

For the Eastern Maori Electoral District—
James Booth.

For the Western Maori Electoral District—
George Thomas Wilkinson.

For the Southern Maori Electoral District—
Helyar Wedderburn Bishop.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER.

Writs for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives for Maori Electoral Districts.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1899.

THE following writs for the election of members of the House of Representatives of New Zealand for the several Maori electoral districts constituted under “The Maori Representation Act, 1867,” are published in the New Zealand Gazette in accordance with the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1893.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

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 JOHN BERNARD WILLIAMS, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Northern 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 a member of the said House of Representatives for the Northern Maori Electoral District : And we do hereby further require and command that you cause the nomination of the said member to be at the Courthouse, Kororareka, on the second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and the polling, in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling-places on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine ; 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 eleventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred.

In witness whereof His Excellency Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

ROBERT STOUT.

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 JAMES BOOTH, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Eastern 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