✨ Maori Electoral Notices
Aumb. 108. 3025
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1921.
Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections.
Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1921.
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 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 on 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, 23rd December, 1921.
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 11th day of January, 1922, and, in the event of the election being contested, that the poll shall be taken on the 25th day of January, 1922.
You are further required to endorse on this writ the name of the person so elected, and to return the writ to me on or before the 15th day of February, 1922.
Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of December, 1921.
J. HISLOP, Clerk of the Writs.
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NZ Gazette 1921, No 108
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- J. Hislop, Chief Electoral Officer
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- J. Hislop, Clerk of the Writs