TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

following, that is to say—On the east by the Patea River; on the West by the Waingongoro River; on the South by the sea; and on the North-east by the boundary of the Ngatirummi Coast Block of Confiscated Land, as defined in Gazette No. 35, of the 5th September, 1855.

If more than one Road District is established in the said Patea District before the 30th March, 1871, then the sum of fifty pounds, proposed in the said scheme to be distributed to Patea District, shall be equally divided between the Road Boards for such Districts; if only one Road District is formed within said District, then the whole of the said sum shall be paid to the Board of said District.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME—GREETING :

WHEREAS by “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 Polling Places to be the Principal Polling Place for the District, and all or any of such Polling Places from time to time to abolish, and, if he think fit, 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:

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the First Schedule hereto to be Polling Places for the Electoral Districts in the said First Schedule mentioned for the election of Members of the House of Representatives: And I do hereby also appoint the Polling Places mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto to be the Principal Polling Places for the Electoral Districts in the said First Schedule and in the Second Schedule mentioned 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; and issued at Wellington, this thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE.

Grey and Bell—
The Court Room, in the Taranaki Institute, Town of New Plymouth.
The School House, Hua Village.
Messrs. Webster’s Store, at the Wai-tara.

Town of New Plymouth—
The Court Room, in the Taranaki Institute, Town of New Plymouth.

Egmont—
The Court Room, in the Taranaki Institute, Town of New Plymouth.
The Omata School House.
The Oakura School House.
The old Government Block House at Patea, situate on the Reserve for general purposes.

THE SECOND SCHEDULE.

Grey and Bell—
The Court Room, in the Taranaki Institute, Town of New Plymouth.

Town of New Plymouth—
The Court Room, in the Taranaki Institute, Town of New Plymouth.

Egmont—
The Court Room, in the Taranaki Institute, Town of New Plymouth.

NOTICE.

New Plymouth Exchanges Commissioners’ Office,
New Plymouth, New Zealand,
31st October, 1870.

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by “The New Plymouth Exchanges Amendment Act, 1847,” did appoint Josiah Flight and John Stephenson Smith, both of New Plymouth aforesaid, Esquires, to inquire into and investigate and examine all or any Exchanges made or purporting to be made under the provisions of “The Town of New Plymouth Compensation Ordinance, 1859,” or “The Town of New Plymouth Consolidation Ordinance, 1859,” and whether made between and by the Sopra...