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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1902.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1902.

Returning Officer appointed for the Election of Members of the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council, under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and the regulations made thereunder, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

GEORGE THOMAS WILKINSON

to be Returning Officer for the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land District, under the provisions of the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

R. J. SEDDON,
For Minister of Native Affairs.

Polling-places appointed for Election of Members of the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by subsection three of section four of the regulations made under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be polling-places for the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land District.

SCHEDULE.

Mokau Heads—Runanga House.
Waipapa—H. te Paerata’s House.
Tauranga, Taupo—Hori te Tauri’s House.
Tapuaeharuru—Courthouse.
Maroa—Ihakara Kahuao’s House.
Tokaanu—Schoolhouse.
Ohaki—Nepia Matenga’s House.
Te Kakaho, Taupo—Runanga House.
Otukou—Runanga House.
Mangaorongo—Te Paehua’s House.
Te Kopua, Waipa—Schoolhouse.
Otorohanga—Mr. Hetet’s Hall.
Te Kuiti—Mr. Perry’s Hall.
Mangakatote—Kahu’s Wooden House.
Te Ruangarahu—Runanga House.
Poro-o-tarao—Public Hall.
Pukerimu, Ohura—Runanga House.
Taumarunui—Te Manu aute’s Wooden House.
Moawhango—Runanga House.

Kawhia—Public Hall.
Te Waipuna, Kawhia—Runanga House.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

R. J. SEDDON,
For Minister of Native Affairs.

Writ for Election of Members of the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1902.

THE following writ for the election of members of the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council, constituted under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” is published in the New Zealand Gazette in accordance with the regulations made under the said Act.

J. CARROLL,
Minister for Native Affairs.

EDWARD, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Islands of New Zealand, &c., King.

To George Thomas Wilkinson, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land District, under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900”:

Greeting.

WHEREAS it is necessary that an election of members, under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” for the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land District 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, three legally qualified persons to serve as members of the Council for the Hikairo-Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land District: And we do hereby further require and command that you cause the nomination of the said members to be at Mr. Hetet’s Hall, Otorohanga, on the eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two, and the polling, in case it shall be required, to be at the several polling-places on the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two; and that this our writ, with the names of the persons so elected indorsed thereon by you, shall be returned to us here on or before the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

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-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

RANFURLY,
Governor.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.