No. 103. 2717

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1905.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1905.

Notice respecting Offences at Elections, including Maori Elections.

Electoral Department,
Wellington, 21st November, 1905.

THE following extracts from “The Electoral Act, 1905,” are published for general information:—

“THE ELECTORAL ACT, 1905.”

Deputy Returning Officer may arrest person guilty of personation.

155. (1.) Every Deputy Returning Officer may, without any other warrant than this Act, cause to be arrested and taken before a Justice any person reasonably suspected of committing or attempting to commit at a polling-place any act of personation.

(2.) All constables shall aid and assist the Deputy Returning Officer in the performance of his duty.

(3.) It shall be the duty of the Returning Officer to institute a prosecution against any person whom he believes to have committed the offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of that offence by any person, at the election for which he is Returning Officer.

Punishment of personation.

(4.) Every person who commits the offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of that offence, is liable to two years’ imprisonment with or without hard labour.

Costs and expenses of prosecution to be allowed.

(5.) The costs and expenses of the prosecutor and the witnesses in such case, together with compensation for their trouble and loss of time, shall be allowed by the Court.

“Personation” defined.

191. Every person commits the offence of personation who at any election applies for a voting-paper in the name of some other person, living or dead, or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such election, applies again at the same election for a voting-paper in his own name.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Chief Electoral Officer.

Returning Officers appointed for Maori Electoral Districts.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Electoral Act, 1905,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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:
Robert Stone Florance.

For the Eastern Maori Electoral District:
John Brooking.

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-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five.

ALBERT PITT.

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

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1905.

THE following writs for the election of members of the House of Representatives for the Maori electoral districts are published in the Gazette, in accordance with the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1905.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.

To the Returning Officer for the Northern Maori Electoral District.

IN pursuance of Part IV. of “The Electoral Act, 1905,” I hereby authorise and require you to proceed, according to law, to the election of a member