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NEW ZEALAND
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1871. No. 744.
PROCLAMATION
Appointing a day for the first Election of a Citizen to be Mayor of the Incorporated Town of Riverton.
By His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS by the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865 Amendment Ordinance 1970,” it is amongst other things provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, at any time after any Municipality shall have been proclaimed under the provisions of the Ordinance intituled “An Ordinance to amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865,” by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, to appoint a day for the first Election of a Citizen to be Mayor of such Municipality:
And whereas the Township of Riverton has been proclaimed a Municipality under the provisions of the said Ordinance; and it is expedient to appoint a day for the first Election of a Citizen to be Mayor of the said Municipality of Riverton:
Now therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have appointed, and do hereby appoint, Saturday, the fifth day of August, 1871, as and to be the day for the first Election of a Citizen to be Mayor of the Municipality of Riverton.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago at Dunedin, this twenty-eighth day of June, 1871.
(L.S.)
J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF RIVERTON.
NOTICE
Of appointment of John Pettchell, Esquire, to give Public Notice of, and to preside at, do, and perform at the first Elections of Mayor, Councillors and Auditors, all the acts required or directed to be done by the Mayor of the Incorporated Town of Riverton, under the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865.”
NOTICE is hereby given, that His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in him by the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865,” has nominated and appointed
JOHN PETCHELL, Esquire,
to be the person to give Public Notice, as by law required, of the place for the Nomination of Candidates for Election to the several offices of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors, at the first Election of Mayors, Councillors, and Auditors, for the Incorporated Town of Riverton, under the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865;” and to be the person to attend on the day of the nomination of Candidates for such offices at the first Elections held under the said Ordinance, and to preside, do, and perform at such first Elections, all the acts by the said Ordinance required or directed to be done by the Mayor of the said Incorporated Town at Elections of Mayor, Councillors, or Auditors under the said Ordinance.
D. REN,
Provincial Secretary.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 28th June, 1871.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1871, No 744
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🏘️ Proclamation for Mayor Election in Riverton
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government28 June 1871
Mayor, Election, Riverton, Municipal Corporation
- James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
🏘️ Appointment of John Pettchell for Municipal Elections
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government28 June 1871
Appointment, Municipal Elections, Riverton, John Pettchell
- John Pettchell (Esquire), Appointed to preside over municipal elections
- James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
- D. Ren, Provincial Secretary