Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1860 – No. 23

Page 103

✨ Polling Places Appointment



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. VIII.] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1860. [No. 23.]

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

To all to whom these presents shall come,
Greeting:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, intituled the “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:

Now Know Ye, that I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following places to be Polling Places for the respective Electoral Districts hereinafter specified as constituted by the “Representation Act, 1860,” for the election of Members of the House of Representatives, namely:—

Marsden—

At Wangarei Heads—The Resident Magistrate’s Station.
At Wangarei—Mr. E. Cafler’s Store.
At Ngunguru—Mr. T. Stewart’s residence.
At Waipu—The School House.
At Omana, Wairoa, Kaipara—Mr. C. Walton’s Station.
At Mongawhai, Wairoa, Kaipara—Mr. H. Atkin’s Station.

Town of New Plymouth—

At New Plymouth—The Court House.

Omata—

At New Plymouth—The Court House.

City of Wellington—

At Wellington—The Resident Magistrate’s Court; and
The Public Market of Messrs. Bethune & Hunter.

Porirua—

At Wellington—The Resident Magistrate’s Court.
At Karori—The School House.
At Porirua Road—The residence of Mr. Best.
At Otaki—The residence of Matine Te Whiwhi.
At Manawatu—The residence of T. Robinson, Esq.



Next Page →



Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa — PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1860, No 23




✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Appointment of Polling Places for Electoral Districts

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
20 November 1860
Polling places, Electoral districts, Elections, Representation Act 1860
7 names identified
  • E. Cafler (Mr), Store owner at Wangarei polling place
  • T. Stewart (Mr), Residence at Ngunguru polling place
  • C. Walton (Mr), Station owner at Omana polling place
  • H. Atkin (Mr), Station owner at Mongawhai polling place
  • Best (Mr), Residence at Porirua Road polling place
  • Matine Te Whiwhi, Residence at Otaki polling place
  • T. Robinson (Esquire), Residence at Manawatu polling place

  • Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary