Mar. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the purpose of any election by the owners of British ships
held before the 31st day of December following.
12. The roll referred to in the last preceding regulation
shall be open for inspection at the offices of the Harbour
Board during office hours.

ELECTIONS BY THE PAYERS OF HARBOUR DUES.

13. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board are
    to be elected by the payers of harbour dues generally, or by
    the payers of any specified class of such dues, the Secretary
    to the Board shall, on or before the 14th day of January in
    the year in which the election of such members is to be held,
    cause to be compiled a list or lists containing the name and
    address of every person, firm, or corporate body who, during
    the year ending the 31st day of December preceding, has
    paid harbour dues generally, or has paid dues of the specified
    class, in each case to an amount sufficient to qualify that
    person, firm, or corporate body to vote at the election of any
    such member or members.

14. For the purpose of compiling such list or lists where
    harbour dues are collected by a Collector of Customs or the
    Government Railways Department on behalf of such a Harbour
    Board, the said Collector and the Department shall
    forward to the Secretary to that Board, on or before the date
    aforesaid, statements certified as correct of all harbour dues
    collected by them during the said year ending the 31st day
    of December preceding, particulars as to the nature of those
    dues, and the names and addresses of the payers thereof.

15. Every such list shall be open for inspection at the
    offices of the Harbour Board during office hours on each day
    from the 15th until the 20th day of January of the year in
    which such election is to be held; and during that period
    the Secretary to the Board shall add to the list or lists the
    name of every person, firm, or corporate body who, by production
    of receipts or otherwise, satisfies him that the said
    person, firm, or corporate body is entitled to be enrolled
    thereon by reason of the payment of harbour dues, or of the
    specified class of such dues, and that the name of that person,
    firm, or corporate body has been wrongfully omitted from
    the said list or lists.

16. The Harbour Board, at a special meeting to be held
    on a day subsequent to the 20th day of January and prior to
    the 1st day of February in the year in which such election is
    to be held, shall receive and adjudicate upon any written
    objections to the said list or lists, and upon any written
    application that the name of any person, firm, or corporate
    body be entered thereon.

17. The decision of the Harbour Board upon every such
    objection or application shall be final; and the Harbour
    Board may at such meeting alter or amend the list or
    lists, and shall then approve the same with such alterations
    or amendments, if any; and the list or lists so approved
    by the Board shall respectively be the roll of electors for
    that year in respect of elections by the payers of harbour
    dues generally, or by the payers of any specified class of
    such dues.

18. The decision of the Harbour Board shall be final and
    conclusive in the case of any dispute as to the class to
    which any particular harbour dues belong.

ELECTIONS BY THE OWNERS OF SHIPS AND BY THE PAYERS
OF DUES JOINTLY.

19. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board
    are to be elected by the owners of ships and the payers of
    harbour dues jointly, the roll of electors shall consist of
    the several rolls compiled in accordance with regulations
    9 to 18 hereof.

GENERAL AS TO ELECTIONS BY THE OWNERS OF SHIPS AND
THE PAYERS OF DUES.

20. Every person acting under a power of attorney executed
    by a person who is entitled to vote as the owner of any British
    ship, or as the payer of dues, at any election of a member or
    members of a Harbour Board shall, on making his application
    for permission to vote, produce the power of attorney to the
    officer in charge of the polling-booth, and shall in the presence
    of such officer make and sign a declaration in the form in the
    First Schedule hereto.

21. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board
    are to be elected by the owners of British ships or by the
    payers of dues, or jointly by the owners of such ships and
    the payers of dues, nominations in writing shall, in the case
    of an ordinary election, be received by the Secretary to the
    Harbour Board up till noon of the third Wednesday in
    April in the year in which an election is being held.

22. Such nominations shall be signed by two persons, being
    either electors whose names appear on the roll of electors
    qualified to vote at the election in respect of which the member
    or members are nominated, or persons entitled to vote on
    behalf of such electors.

23. In the event of no more persons being nominated
    than the number required to be then elected, the Secretary
    to the Board shall (by advertisement in a newspaper circulating
    in the district) declare the person or persons so

nominated to be duly elected, and such person or persons
shall be deemed to be duly elected accordingly.

24. In the event of more persons being nominated than
    the number required to be then elected, a ballot shall be
    taken on the day of the election between the hours of
    10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at a place to be publicly notified, and
    before a Returning Officer to be appointed for that purpose
    by the Harbour Board.

25. (1.) Where harbour dues have been paid by two or
    more persons jointly, or where any British ship is owned by
    more than one person, the one of such persons to vote in
    respect of such payment or ownership shall be appointed in
    writing. Such appointment may be made in the firm-name
    or in the name under which the business of those persons
    is carried on, by any person authorized or entitled to sign
    that name.

(2.) Any appointment as aforesaid or by any corporate
body under subsection (5) of section 13 of the said Act may
be general in terms, and until revoked shall apply to any
election thereafter held under the said Act. Such appointment
shall be produced for inspection when any claim to
nominate a candidate or to vote at an election is made.

26. Such election shall be conducted so far as possible
    in the manner provided by the Local Elections and Polls
    Act, 1908, and the provisions of that Act, except so far as
    is otherwise provided by these regulations, shall apply
    thereto accordingly.

Revocation.

27. The regulations referred to in the Second Schedule
    hereto are hereby revoked: Provided that all acts done and
    proceedings taken under the said regulations for the purposes
    of any election to be held after the commencement of
    these regulations shall be deemed to have been done and
    taken under the authority of these regulations, and shall
    endure for the purposes of these regulations accordingly..

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Declaration by Attorney at Election of Member of Harbour
Board.

I, [Name in full, address, and occupation], do hereby solemnly
and sincerely declare as follows:

1. That I am entitled to vote for the election of a member
   [or members] of the Harbour Board, on
   behalf of [Name, address, and occupation of owner of ship or
   payer of dues], by virtue of a power of attorney from him to
   me bearing date the day of , 19 .

2. That I have not received any notice or information of
   the revocation, by death or otherwise, of the said power of
   attorney.

[Signature of declarant.]

Signed by the said in the presence of—

[Signature of officer in charge of polling-booth.]

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Regulations under the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,
dated 27th February, 1911, and gazetted 2nd March, 1911.

Regulations under the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,
dated 23rd March, 1911, and gazetted 30th March, 1911.

Regulations under the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,
dated 24th June, 1912, and gazetted 4th July, 1912.

Regulations under the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,
dated 28th March, 1913, and gazetted 3rd April, 1913.

Regulations under the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,
dated 6th February, 1915, and gazetted 11th February, 1915.

Regulations under the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,
dated 22nd February, 1915, and gazetted 4th March, 1915.

Regulations under the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910,
dated 29th March, 1915, and gazetted 1st April, 1915.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Roto-o-Rangi Road District, County of West Taupo,
constituted.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of March, 1917.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, a petition, signed by not less than two-thirds of the occupiers within the meaning of the Rating Act, 1908, of land within the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the said area be constituted a road district under the provisions of the said section: