Delegation under Public Health Act to Superintendent.

WHEREAS by "The Public Health Act, 1872," it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit, order that all or any of the powers, functions, duties, authorities, or acts, vested in, conferred on, or authorized or required to be performed by the Governor within any Province, district, port, or place in the Colony, by or under the fifty-third and seventy-seventh sections of the said Act, shall be exercised, performed, or done by the Superintendent of such Province, with the advice of the Executive Council of such Province (if any), as in the said Act mentioned; subject, however, to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling him under the hereinbefore in part recited Act, doth hereby order that all the powers, functions, duties, authorities, or acts vested in, conferred on, or authorized or required to be done by him as such Governor as aforesaid, within the Province of Wellington, under the fifty-third and seventy-seventh sections of the said Act, shall be exercised, performed, or done by

William Fitzherbert, Esq.,
the Superintendent of the said Province,
as and in manner by the said Act required: Provided that this order shall only remain in force so long as the said William Fitzherbert shall be and remain such Superintendent as aforesaid, or until other provision in that behalf shall be made by the Governor under the powers aforesaid.

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 eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

G. M. Waterhouse.
N.Z. Gazette, 19th December, 1872.

Warrant appointing an Additional Polling Place.

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 places to be the Principal Polling Place for the district, and all or any such Polling Places 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 the 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 appointing and altering Polling Places of and Principal Polling Places for Electoral Districts for the election of Superintendents and Members of Provincial Councils as, under the provisions thereinbefore contained, he has for Electoral Districts for election of Members of the House of Representatives:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following place to be an additional Polling Place for the District of Manawatu, for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington, namely —

The School House, Palmerston.

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 eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

John Hall.
N.Z. Gazette, January 9, 1873.