No. 63. 2741

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930.

Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 8th September, 1930.

THE following extracts from the Electoral Act, 1927, are published for general information:—

Deputy Returning Officer may arrest any person guilty of personation.

193. (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.

Cost 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.

G. G. HODGKINS, Chief Electoral Officer.

Writ for the Election of a Member of Parliament for the Western Maori Electoral District.

Clerk of the Writs’ Office,
Wellington, 8th September, 1930.

THE following writ for the election of a member of Parliament for the Western Maori Electoral District is published in the Gazette in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 1927.

G. P. NEWTON, Clerk of the Writs.

Writ for Maori Election.

To the Returning Officer for the Western Maori Electoral District.

IN pursuance of section 186 of the Electoral Act, 1927, I hereby authorize and require you to proceed, according to law, to the election of a member of Parliament to serve in the House of Representatives for the Western Maori Electoral District.

I further direct that you cause the nominations for the said member to be received at the Native Department, Government Buildings, Wellington, not later than noon on the 24th day of September, 1930, and, in the event of the election being contested, that the poll shall be taken on the 8th day of October, 1930.

You are further required to endorse on this writ the name of the person so elected, and to return the writ to me on or before the 25th day of October, 1930.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of September, 1930.

G. P. NEWTON, Clerk of the Writs.

Polling-places for the Western Maori Electoral District appointed.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Electoral Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be the polling-places in the said Western Maori Electoral District.

SCHEDULE.

Western Maori Electoral District—
Aotearoa (Pukeatua), the Native Meeting-house.
Arapuni, the Recreation Hall.
Aria, the Aria Hall.
Athenree, the Old Post-office.
Awapuni, Mr. Moffat’s House.
Bell Block, the Public School.
Bethlehem, the Native Meeting-house.
Bulls, the Courthouse.
Chatham Islands, Waitangi, the Old Post-office Building.