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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

Land in Otago withdrawn from Lease as a Village Settlement.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Proclamation of the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, in so far as it relates to the section of land described in the Schedule hereto, and do declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the said section is hereby withdrawn from lease as a village settlement.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION No. 51, Block XIV., Lower Wanaka Survey District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Regulations under “The Christchurch Tramways District Act, 1902.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of April, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

I N exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The Christchurch Tramways District Act, 1902,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent and advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act:—

REGULATIONS.

Electors Lists and Rolls.

1. The Clerk of the Christchurch Tramway Board shall, on or before the 1st day of May in the year 1903, and in every subsequent year on or before the 5th day of March, make out for each sub-district, as defined in section 4 of the said Act, a list of the electors as defined in section 6 of the said Act.

2. Every such list of electors shall be prepared in the form and shall contain the particulars specified in the First Schedule hereto.

3. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to make every such list as complete as possible, and for that purpose he shall place thereon the name—

(a.) Of every person of whose qualification or qualifications as an elector he is satisfied; and also

(b.) Of every person who makes and delivers or transmits to him at his office a claim for enrolment as next hereinafter prescribed.

4. Every claim for enrolment shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and the claimant’s signature shall be attested by a Justice of the Peace, or a Postmaster, or a minister of religion, or an elector of the district, or the Clerk of the Board, or the Clerk of any local authority.

5. It shall be the duty of the Board and of the Clerk to keep at the office of the Board a supply of blank printed claim-forms for the proper use of claimants for the purposes aforesaid.

6. Names appearing on any sub-district electoral roll in respect of a freehold or rating qualification for any year shall be continued on the sub-district list of electors for the succeeding year, except in the case of persons who are known to the Clerk to have died or to have lost their qualification; and it shall be his duty to report in writing to the Board all names thus omitted, and the reasons of the omissions.

7. The Clerk shall omit the name of every person enrolled in virtue of a residential qualification who, not being a candidate at the last preceding election, appears from a comparison of the rolls used at such election not to have voted thereat.

8. The Clerk shall keep the sub-district electors lists in his office and allow them to be inspected without fee by all persons interested therein during office hours until the 5th day of May, 1903, and in each subsequent year until the 12th day of March, and he shall as soon as possible after the said lists have been prepared publicly notify that such lists are ready for inspection at his office.

9. All objections under section 7 of the said Act must be in writing under the hand of the objector, in the form of the Third Schedule hereto, and must be addressed to the Clerk, and delivered at his office on or before the 9th day of May, 1903, and in each subsequent year on or before the 17th day of March.

10. The Clerk shall, in respect of each sub-district, make and sign a list of all such objections in the form of the Fourth Schedule hereto, and shall keep such lists in his office, and allow them to be inspected without fee by any person interested therein during office hours from the 11th to the 14th day of May in the year 1903, and in each subsequent year from the 18th to the 21st day of March.

11. The Board shall amend each sub-district electors list by correcting every error set forth in any such objection, and proved to the satisfaction of the Board to exist therein; and the Chairman of the Board shall initial every alteration so made in any sub-district electors’ list.

12. At a sitting of the Board to be held not later than the 15th day of May in the year 1903, and of which previous notice shall be given in three consecutive issues of a newspaper circulating in the district, and in each subsequent year at the annual sitting of the Board mentioned in section 7 of the said Act, the Chairman and not less than two other members of the Board shall sign each sub-district electors list as amended, and shall certify thereon to its being correct, and for the year 1903; each sub-district electors list so amended and certified shall thereupon come into force as and shall be the Christchurch Tramways District electoral roll for the sub-district named therein; and for each subsequent year each sub-district electors list so amended and certified shall be the Christchurch District electoral roll for the sub-district named therein, and shall come into force upon the 1st day of April following such annual sitting; and in every case every such electoral roll shall continue in force until a new electoral roll comes into force in like manner.

13. A copy of each sub-district electors roll and of all its supplements, and also the original manuscript roll with all its amendments and corrections, shall be kept open for public inspection at the office of the Clerk, during office hours, without fee.

14. For the purpose of amending any sub-district electors list or roll by the addition of new names after such sub-district electors list has become the sub-district electors roll, supplementary sub-district electors lists may from time to time be prepared; and with respect to every such supplementary list or roll the following regulations shall apply:—

(1.) The names shall be entered therein in alphabetical order of surnames, and shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with the number next following the last number in the preceding list then in force.

(2.) Each supplementary sub-district electors list shall be deemed to be incorporated with the original sub-district electors list, and, when amended, corrected, signed, and certified in manner provided by Regulation 12, shall be a supplementary district electors roll, and be deemed to be incorporated with the original district electors roll then in force.

15. Appeals to a Stipendiary Magistrate under section 7 of the Act may be made as follows:—

(1.) An objection in writing under the hand of the objector shall be lodged with the Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court not later in the year 1903 than the 18th day of May, and not later in any subsequent year than the 7th day of April, and a copy of such objection shall also on or before the same days respectively be lodged with the Clerk.

(2.) The objection may be in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as may be.

(3.) The Magistrate shall hear and determine the appeal at such convenient place and time, not being later than ten days after the last day appointed for lodging such objections, as he appoints, and not less than seven days’ notice shall be given of the date so appointed.