APRIL 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1187

(e) The total number of votes recorded for each licensing proposal at all polling-places;
(f) The total number of informal licensing votes.
(3) He shall reject as informal in the case of the electoral ballot-papers any ballot-paper that does not clearly indicate the candidate for whom the elector desires to vote. In the case of licensing voting-papers he shall reject as informal all voting-papers in which the elector has failed to strike out any of the proposals, or in which he has struck out one only of the proposals, or in which he has struck out all the proposals.
(4) As soon as practicable after ascertaining the result of the voting the Returning Officer shall cause to be transmitted by radio-telegraphy to the Returning Officer at Lyttelton—
(a) The total number of votes recorded for each candidate;
(b) The total number of votes recorded in favour of national continuance;
(c) The total number of votes recorded in favour of State purchase and control; and
(d) The total number of votes recorded in favour of national prohibition.
(5) On receipt of the notification of the result of the poll transmitted as aforesaid, the Returning Officer for the Lyttelton Electoral District shall take the same into account for the purposes of the declaration to be made pursuant to section 149 of the said Act, and of the return to be furnished to the Minister of Justice pursuant to section 16 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, as applied by section 58 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918.
(6) After the transmitting by radio-telegraphy of the results as aforesaid, all ballot-papers and voting-papers and other documents used in connection with the poll shall be forwarded by the Returning Officer under registered post by first mail to the Returning Officer at Lyttelton.
(7) For the purposes of this and the foregoing regulations scrutineers may be appointed by the Returning Officer on the recommendation of the candidates, or in the case of the licensing poll on the recommendation of the organizing parties concerned as follows:—
(a) One scrutineer for each polling-place may be appointed on behalf of each candidate;
(b) One scrutineer for each polling-place may be appointed on behalf of persons in favour of national continuance;
(c) One scrutineer for each polling-place may be appointed on behalf of persons in favour of State purchase and control;
(d) One scrutineer for each polling-place may be appointed on behalf of persons in favour of national prohibition.
(8) The Returning Officer and every Deputy Returning Officer, poll clerk, or scrutineer under these regulations shall, before acting, make a declaration in the respective form prescribed by the said Act.

REGULATION 13.—MAORI VOTING IN CHATHAM ISLANDS.
(1) For the purpose of taking the votes of Maori electors in the Chatham Islands the Returning Officer appointed under these regulations shall appoint such Deputy Returning Officers, poll clerks, and associates as he deems necessary for the effective taking of the poll at each polling-booth.
(2) Every Deputy Returning Officer, Associate, and poll clerk appointed hereunder shall, before acting in his office, make and subscribe before a Justice or a Postmaster a declaration that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office.
(3) The Returning Officer shall appoint a sufficient number of polling-places for the convenience of electors.
(4) On the day of the poll the electors shall enter the polling-booth one by one, and each elector when requested to do so by the Deputy Returning Officer or his associate shall state his full name, tribe, hapu, and abode. The Deputy Returning Officer (or his associate as above mentioned) shall write such information on the counterfoil of the voting-paper, after which the elector shall be requested to state the name of the candidate for whom he desires to vote, and, the elector having done so, the Deputy Returning Officer shall write such candidate’s name upon the voting-paper, and, having affixed his name or initials thereto, shall pass it to his associate, who shall place his name or initials on such voting-paper as witness.
(5) On every such voting-paper the Deputy Returning Officer shall enter a number (called a consecutive number), which shall correspond to a like number on the counterfoil and shall in the case of the first voting-paper dealt with begin with the number one. No two voting-papers dealt with in any booth shall bear the same number.

REGULATION 14.—GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR CHATHAM ISLANDS.
(1) Before recording any vote under these regulations the Deputy Returning Officer may put to the person proposing to vote any or all of the following questions:—
(a) Are you a bona fide resident of the Chatham Islands?
(b) Are you twenty-one years of age or over that age?
(c) Have you already voted at this election in your own or any other name?
(2) If the first two questions are not answered absolutely in the affirmative, and the third question absolutely in the negative, the person to whom such questions are put shall not be permitted to vote.
(3) No person not actually engaged in voting shall be allowed to remain in the polling-booth except the Deputy Returning Officer and his associate and clerks, and the scrutineers (if any).
(4) No person shall speak to any voter in a polling-booth either before or after such voter has given his vote, except only the Deputy Returning Officer or his associate, who may ask the questions he is authorized to ask, and give such general directions as may assist any voter to give his vote.
(5) Every poll under these regulations shall commence at nine o’clock in the forenoon of the day appointed, and shall close at four o’clock in the afternoon of that day, unless otherwise ordered by the Returning Officer.
(6) Nothing in these regulations shall prevent a European elector whose name does not appear on the special supplementary roll from voting, provided that he satisfies the Deputy Returning Officer that he was qualified to be registered as an elector, and in every such case it shall be the duty of the Deputy Returning Officer to insert such name on his copy of the roll.
(7) Any person registered as an elector of the Electoral District of Lyttelton who is not a resident of the Chatham Islands may vote at any polling-place in the Chatham Islands as if he were an absent voter and as if such polling-place were outside the said district, and the provisions of these regulations relating to voting by absent voters shall, mutatis mutandis, apply.

SCHEDULE.
[Front.] [Form No. 1. [Reg. 2 (1).
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION BY PERSON OTHER THAN A SEAMAN.
Electoral District of
I HEREBY apply to have my name entered on the Electoral Roll of the above district, and I declare that the statements made in this application, including those set forth on the back hereof, are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
(1) I have attained the age of twenty-one years.
(2) I am a British subject by BIRTH; ]
[Strike out statement that does not apply.]
(3) I am a British subject by NATURAL- IZATION IN NEW ZEALAND.
(4) I have resided in New Zealand for one year.
(5) I have resided in the above district for a period of not less than three months immediately preceding the date of this application.
(6) My name is on the Electoral Roll for . [If not already enrolled strike out this statement.]
(7) My address and occupation on that Electoral Roll are . [If not already enrolled strike out this statement.]
Signature of Applicant :
Signed and declared by the Applicant, this day of , 19 , before me—
Signature of Witness :
Address of Witness :
NOTE.—A witness must be—
(a) A Registrar or Deputy Registrar; or
(b) An elector of the district in which the applicant or declarant resides, or some person authorized in that behalf by the Registrar of that district; or
(c) The Chief Electoral Officer, or Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, or any other officer in the service of the Government authorized in that behalf by the Chief Electoral Officer; or
(d) A Justice or Postmaster.
CAUTION.—The applicant must himself sign the application by name or mark. Any person signing for another, whether requested to do so or not, is liable to a fine of £50. The witness must not sign without having actually seen the applicant write his signature, or without hearing the person signing declare that he has read the statement and that the signature is in his own handwriting, and that the name so