✨ Electoral Notices
Num. 38. 2825
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1908.
Notice respecting Offences at Elections, including Maori Elections.
Electoral Department,
Wellington, 29th October, 1908.
THE following extracts from “The Legislature Act, 1908,” are published for general information:—
“THE LEGISLATURE ACT, 1908.”
Deputy Returning Officer may arrest person guilty of personation.
- (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.
- 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 Legislature Act, 1908,” I William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion 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 Florence.
For the Eastern Maori Electoral District :
Harold Carr.
For the Western Maori Electoral District :
William Henry Grace.
For the Southern Maori Electoral District :
Helyar Wedderburn Bishop.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eight.
JOHN. G. FINDLAY.
Writs for the Election of Members of Parliament for Maori Electoral Districts.
Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1908.
THE following writs for the election of members of Parliament for the Maori electoral districts are published in the Gazette, in accordance with the provisions of “The Legislature Act, 1908.”
HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.
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🏛️ Notice respecting Offences at Elections, including Maori Elections
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration29 October 1908
Elections, Offences, Personation, Maori Elections, Electoral Act
- F. W. Mansfield, Chief Electoral Officer
🏛️ Returning Officers appointed for Maori Electoral Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration31 October 1908
Appointments, Returning Officers, Maori Electoral Districts
- Robert Stone Florence, Appointed Returning Officer for Northern Maori Electoral District
- Harold Carr, Appointed Returning Officer for Eastern Maori Electoral District
- William Henry Grace, Appointed Returning Officer for Western Maori Electoral District
- Helyar Wedderburn Bishop, Appointed Returning Officer for Southern Maori Electoral District
- William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor
- John G. Findlay
🏛️ Writs for the Election of Members of Parliament for Maori Electoral Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration31 October 1908
Writs, Election, Members of Parliament, Maori Electoral Districts
- Hugh Pollen, Clerk of the Writs