✨ Maori Electoral Notices
Numb. 87.
3063
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1922.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1922.
Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections.
Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1922.
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.
Returning Officers appointed for Maori Electoral Districts.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Legislature Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General 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—
WILLIAM EDWARD GOFFE.
For the Eastern Maori Electoral District—
JOHN HARVEY.
For the Western Maori Electoral District—
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE.
For the Southern Maori Electoral District—
JOHN ROYDEN SANSOM.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of November, 1922.
W. FRASER,
For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.
Writs for the Election of Members of Parliament for Maori Electoral Districts.
Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1922.
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.
J. HISLOP, Clerk of the Writs.
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⚖️ Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement16 November 1922
Elections, Offences, Personation, Maori, Prosecution
- J. Hislop, Chief Electoral Officer
🏛️ Returning Officers appointed for Maori Electoral Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration18 November 1922
Appointments, Returning Officers, Maori Electoral Districts
- William Edward Goffe, Appointed Returning Officer for Northern Maori Electoral District
- John Harvey, Appointed Returning Officer for Eastern Maori Electoral District
- William Ewart Gladstone, Appointed Returning Officer for Western Maori Electoral District
- John Royden Sansom, Appointed Returning Officer for Southern Maori Electoral District
- John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General
- W. Fraser, For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department
🏛️ Writs for the Election of Members of Parliament for Maori Electoral Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration16 November 1922
Writs, Election, Members of Parliament, Maori Electoral Districts
- J. Hislop, Clerk of the Writs