NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named polling places for the Province of Otago for the election of Superintendent thereof, and do appoint in lieu thereof:

Josiah Mitchinson’s store, Bendigo;
The Drill-shed, Caversham;
The Schoolhouse, Flints bush;
The Schoolhouse, Beaumont Ferry;
House of W. A. Munford, Serpentine.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government, 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 twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

Donald McLean,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Warrant appointing additional Polling Places.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Regulation of Elections Act 1870,” 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 within one mile of the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, and also from time to time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in lieu of those abolished, and that every such Warrant shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette: Provided always that no Polling Place shall be appointed by the Governor under the said Act, unless he shall be first satisfied that the place to be appointed is more convenient than any other for at least twenty electors to record their votes thereat. And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that every election of the Superintendent or of a member of the Provincial Council of a Province shall be conducted in the manner prescribed therein for the election of members of the House of Representatives, and that the Governor shall have the same powers of appointing and altering Polling Places and Principal Polling Places for Electoral Districts for the election of Superintendents and Members of Provincial Councils as, under the provisions therebefore contained, he has for Electoral Districts for Election of Members of the House of Representatives:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following places to be additional Polling Places for the Province of Otago for the election of Superintendent thereof, namely:

Hazel’s store, Branches, Shotover;
Thomas Kinross’ store, Gibbstown.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government, 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 twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

Donald McLean,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Provincial Returning Officer Appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint William Lawrence Simpson, Esq., to be Returning Officer for Provincial Elections for the Districts of Dunstan and Kawarau, in the Province of Otago.

Donald McLean,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Provincial Returning Officer Appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint James Pillans Maitland, Esq., to be Returning Officer for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago for the Electoral Districts of Waihola, Milton, and Matau, vice John Dewe, Esq., resigned.

Donald McLean,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Provincial Returning Officer Appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint John Nugent Wood, Esq., to be Returning Officer for the election of Members of the Provincial Council for the District of Oreti, in the Province of Otago.

Donald McLean,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Warrant appointing additional Polling Places.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Regulation of Elections Act 1870,” 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 within one mile of the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the Principal Polling Place for the district:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, do hereby further appoint...