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Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time to time to appoint polling places for each Electoral District, within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, and all or any of such polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof: And whereas by another Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Provincial Elections Act 1858,” it is enacted that, subject to certain provisions therein contained, every election of the Superintendent or of a Member of the Provincial Council of a Province shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by “The Regulation of Elections Act 1858,” aforesaid, and the provisions of the said last-mentioned Act shall apply to the elections of Superintendents and Members of Provincial Councils:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Acts, do hereby appoint the following places to be additional polling places for the District of the Lakes for the election of Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, namely—

The School House, Macetown, and

The Police Camp, Cardrona.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington, this eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,

GREETING:

WHEREAS by “The Regulation of Elections Act 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time to time to appoint polling places for each Electoral District, within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, and all or any of such polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof: And whereas, by warrant under the hand of the Governor, bearing date the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the Station of Messrs. Douglas, Alderson and Co., Highly, was appointed a polling place for the District of Waikouaiti for the election of Members of the House of Representatives:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named polling place for the District of Waikouaiti for the election of Members of the House of Representatives.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.