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section by the northern boundary of the Te Rau-o-te-Huia C Block; thence by the northern boundary of that block, the northern boundary of Ngaihumutu A Block, the western, northern, and north-eastern boundaries of Okarito Block, the north-eastern boundary of Waiparapara No. 3 Block, the northern boundary of Uropohatu No. 1 Block, and that boundary produced to high-water mark of the Waihi Estuary, and by the said high-water mark to the dredged channel of the Pongakawa River; thence by the left bank of the said dredged channel to its junction by the old Kaikokopu Stream, and by that stream to its intersection by the dredged channel of the Kaikopkopu Stream; thence by the said dredged channel to and across the Main East Coast Road; thence generally by the south side of that road to and across the East Coast Main Trunk Railway; thence by the northern boundaries of Lots 1, 2, and 3 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland under No. 11998 and Section 3, Block II, Waihi South Survey District, to and across a public road; thence by the north-western boundary of Section 14, Block II, Waihi South Survey District, across the East Coast Main Trunk Railway to the south side of the main East Coast Road; thence by that road to and across the said railway and by the south side of the railway to the point of commencement. As the same is delineated on plan No. 2196 deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington.

F. D. THOMSON.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Election of Members of Harbour Boards.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Auckland, this 21st day of February, 1927.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by sections twenty-two and thirty-two of the Harbours Act, 1923 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, 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 make the following regulations as to the election of members of Harbour Boards by the electors of combined districts, by the owners or part owners of British ships, and by the payers of harbour dues.

REGULATIONS.

ELECTIONS BY THE ELECTORS OF COMBINED DISTRICTS.

1. WHERE one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the electors of a combined district under section 22 of the said Act, the provisions of sections 5 to 17 (inclusive), 19 to 42 (inclusive), 44 to 53 (inclusive), and 58 to 67 (inclusive) of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, as amended by the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1926, and of sections 2 to 16 (inclusive) of the last hereinbefore-mentioned Act, shall apply to the elections of those members.

2. For the purposes of an election under section 22 of the said Act the Returning Officer of the principal local authority within the meaning of that section shall be the Returning Officer for the combined district; or, where there is more than one such Returning Officer, the Returning Officer for the subdivision of the district in which or nearest to which the public office of that local authority is situated shall be the Returning Officer for the purposes of such election as aforesaid.

3. The several electors’ rolls for the districts or portions of districts included in the combined district shall together be the electoral roll for the purposes of the election; provided that every elector on those rolls shall have one vote only at the election.

4. Where there is no electors’ roll for any portion of a district included in a combined district, the local authority of that district shall cause to be prepared from the electors’ roll or rolls of the district an electors’ roll for that portion of the district.

5. The local authorities of the combined district shall, on or before the day fixed for nominations, supply the Returning Officer with as many copies of such electors’ rolls of their districts as he may require for the purposes of the election.

6. The Returning Officer shall provide such polling-booths throughout the combined district as he considers necessary, and shall appoint as many Deputy Returning Officers and poll-clerks as are required for the effective taking of the poll at every polling-booth,

7. The poll shall close throughout the combined district at the hour at which a poll closes for an election in the district of the principal local authority.

8. For the purposes of such an election the term “district,” as used in the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, means a combined district; and the term “local authority” means the principal local authority within the meaning of the said section 22, appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council dated the 9th day of February, 1925, or by any Order in Council amending or in substitution for the said Order in Council.

ELECTIONS BY THE OWNERS OF BRITISH SHIPS.

9. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the owners of British ships in accordance with the provisions of section 32 of the said Act, the Collector of Customs at the port or ports under the jurisdiction of that Harbour Board, on or before the 14th day of January in each year, shall forward to the Secretary to that Harbour Board a list of the names and addresses of all persons who, on the preceding 31st day of December, were registered as the owners or part owners of any British ship registered at any such port.

10. Every such list shall be signed by the said Collector of Customs, and shall be certified by him to be correct.

11. The Secretary to the Harbour Board shall immediately compile a list containing the names of all persons mentioned in the several lists so forwarded to him, and the list so compiled shall constitute the roll of electors for the purpose of any election by the owners of British ships held before the 31st day of December following.

12. The roll referred to in the last preceding regulation shall be open for inspection at the offices of the Harbour Board during office hours.

ELECTIONS BY THE PAYERS OF HARBOUR DUES.

13. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the payers of harbour dues generally, or by the payers of any specified class of such dues, the Secretary to the Board shall, on or before the 25th day of January in the year in which the election of such members is to be held, cause to be compiled a list or lists containing the name and address of every person, firm, or corporate body who, during the year ending the 31st day of December preceding, has paid harbour dues generally, or has paid dues of the specified class, in each case to an amount sufficient to qualify that person, firm, or corporate body to vote at the election of any such member or members.

14. For the purpose of compiling such list or lists where harbour dues are collected by a Collector of Customs or the Government Railways Department on behalf of such a Harbour Board, the said Collector and the Department shall forward to the Secretary to that Board, on or before the date aforesaid, statements certified as correct of all harbour dues collected by them during the said year ending the 31st day of December preceding, particulars as to the nature of those dues, and the names and addresses of the payers thereof.

15. Every such list shall be open for inspection at the offices of the Harbour Board during office hours on each day from the 26th until the 31st day of January of the year in which such election is to be held; and during that period the Secretary to the Board shall add to the list or lists the name of every person, firm, or corporate body who, by production of receipts or otherwise, satisfies him that the said person, firm, or corporate body is entitled to be enrolled thereon by reason of the payment of harbour dues, or of the specified class of such dues, and that the name of that person, firm, or corporate body has been wrongfully omitted from the said list or lists.

16. The Harbour Board, at a special meeting to be held on a day subsequent to the 1st day of February in the year in which such election is to be held, shall receive and adjudicate upon any written objections to the said lists or list, and upon any written application that the name of any person, firm, or corporate body be entered thereon. All such objections or applications must be lodged with the Secretary of the Board not less than seven days before the day appointed for holding such special meeting.

17. The decision of the Harbour Board upon every such objection or application shall be final; and the Harbour Board may at such meeting alter or amend the list or lists, and shall then approve the same with such alterations or amendments, if any; and the list or lists so approved by the Board shall respectively be the roll of electors for that year in respect of elections by the payers of harbour dues generally, or by the payers of any specified class of such dues.

18. The decision of the Harbour Board shall be final and conclusive in the case of any dispute as to the class to which any particular harbour dues belong.