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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 61

Regulations under Section 46 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), provision is made for the taking of polls in certain districts under the Maori Councils Act, 1900, for the purpose of determining whether liquor shall be supplied to Natives in any such district or not : And whereas by the said section forty-six it is provided that the question as to the supply of liquor as aforesaid shall be submitted to the electors entitled to vote at any such poll in such form, and that the poll thereon shall be taken and the result of such poll declared in such manner, as may be prescribed by the Governor by regulations :
Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said section forty-six, do hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth.

REGULATIONS.
FORM OF QUESTION.

1. THE question to be submitted at any poll taken under section 46 of the said Act shall be submitted in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto.

THE POLL.
2. There shall be a Returning Officer, appointed by the Governor, for every poll to be taken in any district proclaimed under section 46 of the said Act; and the said Returning Officer shall have power to appoint, on the occasion of any such poll, such Deputy Returning Officers as he deems necessary for the effective taking of the poll at every polling-booth.
3. Every such Returning Officer or Deputy Returning Officer may, at any time before the close of the poll, appoint (in writing) a substitute to act for him in case and so long as he is prevented by illness or other sufficient cause from attending or continuing to attend to the duties of his office.
4. Every such substitute while so acting shall have all the powers, functions, and liabilities of his principal.
5. Every Returning Officer and Deputy Returning Officer, and every substitute appointed hereunder, shall, before acting in his office, make and subscribe before a Justice or Postmaster the declaration set forth in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.
6. Polling-places shall be appointed in the district by the Returning Officer, and notice of the places appointed shall be published in the Kahiti and Gazette at least fourteen days previous to the day of taking the poll.
7. A polling-place shall not be appointed-
(i.) Unless the Returning Officer is first satisfied that the place to be appointed is convenient for at least ten electors to record their votes thereat; or
(ii.) In any house licensed for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, or in any premises belonging to any such house.
8. The Returning Officer may appoint any primary school to be a polling-place, and in every such case it shall be the duty of the Committee of that school to place the same at the free disposal of the Returning Officer from 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the day preceding the election until 8 o'clock in the evening of the day of the election.
9. The cost of cleaning such school after use as a polling-place, and of repairing any damage, shall be deemed to form part of the cost of the poll.
10. No additional polling-place shall be appointed later than the fifteenth day before the day appointed for taking the poll, and no change shall be made in the polling-places appointed for any district, unless a polling-place becomes unavailable for the purpose for which it was appointed, or unless such poll cannot be taken without some such change being made.
11. The poll shall be taken at the places appointed as aforesaid, and shall commence at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of the day appointed, and shall close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, unless otherwise ordered by the Returning Officer.
12. The Returning Officer shall cause to be printed a supply of voting-papers in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto, and shall supply to each Deputy Returning Officer a sufficient number of such voting-papers, together with any printed matter, stationery, or writing-materials that he may consider necessary for the efficient conduct of the poll.

13. The Returning Officer may appoint such clerks as are necessary for the effective taking of the poll, and shall arrange that every Deputy Returning Officer shall have associated with him on the day of the poll a Maori or half-caste (hereinafter referred to as an associate), whose duty it shall be to assist the Deputy Returning Officer in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and in any other way if so required by such Deputy.
14. Any ten or more electors who are in favour of the proposal that liquor be supplied to Natives in the district may, by writing under their hands, nominate any two specified persons to appoint one scrutineer to act at each polling-place in the district in the interest of all electors who are not in favour of the said proposal.
15. Any ten or more electors who are not in favour of the proposal that liquor be supplied to Natives in the district may, by writing under their hands, nominate any two specified persons to appoint one scrutineer to act at each polling-place in the district in the interest of all electors who are in favour of the said proposal.
16. The nomination-paper shall be in the form No. 3 in the Schedule hereto, and shall be verified by declaration as therein set forth, made and subscribed before a Justice of the Peace or Postmaster.
17. The nomination-paper shall be lodged with the Returning Officer not later than the seventh day before the day of polling, and shall be open to public inspection.
18. On a day to be publicly notified by the Returning Officer (being not earlier than the fifth nor later than the third day before the day of polling) he shall publicly consider all nomination-papers duly lodged as aforesaid, and, after hearing all objections thereto, select therefrom two fit persons to appoint one scrutineer, and two fit persons to appoint the other scrutineer, to act at each polling-place in the respective interests as aforesaid; and the persons so selected may appoint accordingly.
19. The selection shall be by writing under the hand of the Returning Officer, in the form No. 4 in the Schedule hereto.
20. The appointment shall in each case be by writing under the hands of the persons selected as aforesaid, and shall be in the form No. 5 in the Schedule hereto.
21. Every scrutineer so appointed to act at a polling-place shall be entitled to be present only after the closing of the poll at the counting of the votes given at that polling-place; but, except as provided by these regulations, shall have all the powers of a scrutineer under the Legislature Act, 1908.
22. The remuneration (if any) of the scrutineers shall not be deemed to form part of the cost of the poll.
23. Every associate, clerk, and scrutineer shall make and subscribe before the Deputy Returning Officer, or a Justice, or Postmaster the declaration in the form No. 6 in the Schedule hereto; and every such declaration shall, before any such person commences his duties, be delivered to the Deputy Returning Officer at the polling-place for which that person is appointed.
24. On the day of the poll the electors shall enter the polling-booth one by one; and each elector, when requested to do so by the Deputy Returning Officer or his associate, shall state his full name, tribe, hapu, and abode. The Deputy Returning Officer or his associate shall write such information on the counterfoil of the voting-paper, after which the elector shall be requested to answer "Yes" or "No" to the question, "Do you vote that liquor be supplied to the Natives of this district?"; and, the elector having so answered, the Deputy Returning Officer shall write the reply upon the voting-paper, and, having affixed his name or initials thereto, shall pass it to his associate, who shall place his name or initials on the voting-paper as witness.
25. On every such voting-paper the Deputy Returning Officer shall enter a number (called a consecutive number), which shall correspond to a like number on the counterfoil, and shall, in the case of the first voting-paper dealt with, begin with the number one, and appear consecutively upon every succeeding voting-paper so that no two voting-papers dealt with in any booth shall bear the same number.
26. Before recording any such vote as aforesaid, the Deputy Returning Officer or his associate may put to the person proposing to vote any or all of the following questions:
    (i.) Are you a bona fide resident of the Maori District?
    (ii.) Are you twenty-one years of age, or over that age?
    (iii.) Have you already voted at this poll, in your own or any other name?
    (iv.) Are you registered on any European roll of electors for the election of a member of the House of Representatives?