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transfer of any surplus voting-papers, those voting-papers that have already been once transferred shall be set aside as of no further use, before any voting-paper that has not been transferred is set aside.

(6.) If, after carrying out the aforesaid process as far as possible, the whole number of candidates required has not been elected, the candidate having the fewest votes shall be declared not elected, and his votes shall be distributed among the remaining candidates according to the voters’ preferences.

(7.) If the whole number of candidates required to be elected has not then been elected, the process described in the foregoing provisions shall be repeated so far as may be necessary, until the election has been completed.

10. The quota necessary to elect a candidate shall be ascertained by dividing the total number of valid votes by a number larger by one than the number of members to be elected, and increasing the quotient by one and disregarding fractions.

11. Each candidate may, by writing under his hand, appoint one scrutineer, who may be present at the examination of the voting-papers and the counting of the votes by the Returning Officer.

12. The Returning Officer shall, immediately after counting the votes, seal up all voting-papers, and transmit the whole to the Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, at Wellington, who shall keep the same for six months thereafter, and shall not open or permit to be opened such packet, except on the order of some Court of competent jurisdiction, and shall at the end of six months effectually destroy the same.

13. Forthwith after the completion of the election the Returning Officer shall, by notice exhibited on the outside of the office of the University of New Zealand, notify the names of the persons elected and shall also, by writing signed by him, notify the result of the election to the Minister of Education.

14. The Returning Officer and every scrutineer shall be required faithfully and impartially to perform the duties of their offices, and shall not directly or indirectly make known the state of the poll or give or pretend to give any information by which the state of the poll may be known before the final declaration thereof by the Returning Officer, or make known for which candidate any voter has voted, or otherwise communicate to any person any information likely to defeat the secrecy of the ballot.

15. If any dispute or question arises touching the regularity of the election, such dispute or question shall be determined by a Stipendiary Magistrate in manner provided by sections 58 to 67 of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, all the provisions of which shall, with the necessary modifications, apply.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice as to Constitution of the Council of the University of New Zealand, and fixing Time and Place of the First Meeting thereof.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 13th day of December, 1926.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1926, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby fix the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, as the date of the constitution of the Council of the University of New Zealand, and doth hereby further fix ten o’clock a.m. of the sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, as the time, and the University College Building at Auckland as the place, of the first meeting of the said Council.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.