26 TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the Taranaki Militia District shall be within the command of Colonel George Stoddart Whitmore.

T. M. Haultain.

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 seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, the Tikorangi Redoubt was appointed a polling place for the District of Grey and Bell, and the Omata Stockade was appointed a polling place for the District of Omata, 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 places for the said Districts for the election of Members of the House of Representatives, and do appoint in lieu thereof—

Messrs. Webster’s Store, for the District of Grey and Bell;
The Omata School-room, for the District of Omata.

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 twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the authorised copies of the Standard Weights and Measures issued, and to be issued, under the provisions of the said Act to the several Inspectors of Weights and Measures for the Province hereunder written, shall be kept therein at the several places of deposit the name whereof is set opposite the name of the said Province respectively, in the respective buildings the descriptions whereof are set opposite the names of such places of deposit respectively:

Province.—Taranaki.

Place of Deposit.—Office of Inspector of Weights and Measures at New Plymouth.

Description of Building.—Office occupied by Inspector of Weights and Measures, Mount Elliott, Town of New Plymouth.

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 twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford.

Office of the Commissioners of the Public Debts Sinking Funds,
Wellington, February 25, 1869.

THE Commissioners for the Public Debts Sinking Funds, appointed by “The Public Debts Sinking Funds Act, 1868,” hereby give notice that all moneys heretofore by law payable to the Trustees of the Sinking Funds of any of the Loans hereunder mentioned, are now payable by the said Act to the Commissioners aforesaid, and may be paid to either of the under mentioned persons, who are authorised by the Commissioners to receive and to give receipts for the same; that is to say—

For the Sinking Fund of the Auckland Loan, the Hon. Dr. Pollen, Auckland;
For the Sinking Funds of the Otago Loans, A. K. C. Strode, Esq., Dunedin; and
For the Sinking Funds of all other Loans, James Clark Gavin, the Secretary to the Commissioners.

By order of the Commissioners,

James Clark Gavin,
Secretary to the Commissioners.