Num. 80.

2935

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1922.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1922.

Regulations under Section 3 of the Horouta District Licensing Poll Act, 1922.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of November, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of the Horouta District Licensing Poll Act, 1922, it is enacted that a poll shall be taken of those Maoris residing in the Horouta Maori Council District who are qualified to vote as electors at the General Election for the purpose of the election of a Maori member of Parliament under Part IV of the Legislature Act, 1908 (relating to Maori representation), to determine whether or not liquor may be supplied to Natives in that district: And whereas it is further provided that the proposal to be submitted to the electors pursuant to the said section shall be submitted in such form and the poll thereon shall be taken and the result of the poll declared in such manner as may be prescribed by the Governor-General in Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said section, and all other powers him enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth.

REGULATIONS.
FORM OF QUESTION.

1. THE question to be submitted at the poll taken under 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-General, for such poll; and the said Returning Officer shall have power to appoint, on the occasion of 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, 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.