✨ Electoral and Government Appointments
Numb. 94.
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1911.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1911.
Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections.
Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1911.
THE following extracts from the Legislature Amendment Act, 1910, are published for general information :—
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.) 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.
(3.) 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.
(4.) 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.
(5.) Every person commits the offence of personation who at any election applies to vote 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 to vote in his own name.
F. W. MANSFIELD,
Chief Electoral Officer.
Returning Officers appointed for Maori Electoral Districts.
ISLINGTON, Governor.
IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Legislature Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 :—
CHARLES WOODHOUSE GRACE.
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 eighteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.
J. G. WARD.
Writs for the Election of Members of Parliament for Maori Electoral Districts.
Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1911.
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 Amendment Act, 1910.
HUGH POLLEN,
Clerk of the Writs.
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NZ Gazette 1911, No 94
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⚖️ Offences at Maori Elections - Legislature Amendment Act Extracts
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement20 November 1911
Maori elections, personation, electoral offences, legislation, prosecution
- F. W. Mansfield, Chief Electoral Officer
🏛️ Returning Officers appointed for Maori Electoral Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration18 October 1911
Maori electoral districts, returning officers, appointments, elections
- Charles Woodhouse Grace, Returning Officer, Northern Maori Electoral District
- Harold Carr, Returning Officer, Eastern Maori Electoral District
- William Henry Woodhouse Grace, Returning Officer, Western Maori Electoral District
- Helyar Wedderburn Bishop, Returning Officer, Southern Maori Electoral District
- John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor
- J. G. Ward
🏛️ Writs for Election of Members of Parliament for Maori Electoral Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration21 November 1911
Maori electoral districts, parliamentary elections, writs
- Hugh Pollen, Clerk of the Writs