✨ Order in Council - Election Validation
Humo. 4.
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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1906.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1906.
Order in Council validating certain Suggested Irregularities in Matter of Form respecting the Lake County Council Election, and extending the Time for the Fresh Election in the Case of the Queenstown Riding.
PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of January, 1906.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS doubts have been raised as to the validity of the general election of Councillors of the Lake County Council on the eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five, by reason of certain suggested irregularities in the mode of appointing the Returning Officer and of certain errors in the advertisements relating to such election: And whereas it sufficiently appears that all the suggested irregularities and errors were in matter of form, and it is expedient to validate the same: And whereas in the case of the election for the Queenstown Riding the result thereof was disputed by petition under section forty-five of “The Local Elections Act, 1904,” and on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five, the Magistrate declared that election to be void (but on other grounds than any hereinbefore referred to): And whereas the Returning Officer omitted to fix a day for a fresh election for the said Queenstown Riding within the period limited in that behalf by section fifty-three of the last-mentioned Act: And whereas it is expedient to extend such period so as to allow of the said fresh election being held:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power conferred by “The Counties Act Amendment Act, 1903,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby validate the errors and irregularities aforesaid, and in particular doth hereby declare that for all the purposes of the said general election Henry O. Harte, who acted as Returning Officer, had been duly appointed to that office by the said Council, and was qualified to act as Returning Officer accordingly. And also that all the advertisements published by the Returning Officer, or by any Deputy Returning Officer, with respect to such election shall be as valid as if the references therein to “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1904,” had been references to “The Local Elections Act, 1904.” And also that in the case of the Queenstown Riding the day to be fixed by the Returning Officer for the holding of the fresh election, in lieu of the election declared to be void as aforesaid, is hereby declared to be such day as he fixes in that behalf, being not later than twenty-eight days after the date of the gazetting of this Order in Council.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1906, No 4
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🏘️ Order in Council validating election irregularities and extending time for fresh election in Lake County Council and Queenstown Riding
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government17 January 1906
Order in Council, Lake County Council, Queenstown Riding, Election validation, Returning Officer, Local Elections Act 1904, Counties Act Amendment Act 1903
- Henry O. Harte, Acted as Returning Officer
- Plunket, Governor
- Sir J. G. Ward, K.C.M.G., Presiding in Council
- Alex. Willis, Clerk of the Executive Council