✨ Maori Election Notices
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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1918.
Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections.
Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1918.
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.
J. HISLOP,
Chief Electoral Officer.
Writ for the Election of a Member of Parliament for the Southern Maori Electoral District.
Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1918.
THE following writ for the election of a member of Parliament for the Southern Maori Electoral District is published in the Gazette in accordance with the provisions of the Legislature Amendment Act, 1910.
J. HISLOP,
Clerk of the Writs.
Writ for Maori Election.
To the Returning Officer for the Southern Maori Electoral District.
IN pursuance of section 60 of the Legislature Amendment Act, 1910, I hereby authorize and require you to proceed according to law to the election of a member of Parliament to serve in the House of Representatives for the Southern Maori Electoral District.
I further direct that you cause the nominations for the said member to be received at the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, not later than noon on the 8th day of February, 1918, and, in the event of the election being contested, that the poll shall be taken on the 21st day of February, 1918.
You are further required to indorse on this writ the name of the person so elected, and to return the writ to me on or before the 14th day of March, 1918.
Dated at Wellington this 30th day of January, 1918.
J. HISLOP,
Clerk of the Writs.
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NZ Gazette 1918, No 11
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NZ Gazette 1918, No 11
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🪶 Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections
🪶 Māori Affairs30 January 1918
Elections, Offences, Personation, Maori, Legislation
- J. Hislop, Chief Electoral Officer
🪶 Writ for the Election of a Member of Parliament for the Southern Maori Electoral District
🪶 Māori Affairs30 January 1918
Elections, Writ, Southern Maori Electoral District, Parliament
- J. Hislop, Clerk of the Writs