✨ Proclamation on Borough Ward Division
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1872.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by the 41st section of "The Municipal Corporations Acts Amendment Act, 1871," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province, if he shall have received a petition to that effect, signed by not less than one-fourth of the number of persons whose names appear on the burgess-roll of any single borough divided into wards by proclamation, to divide anew such single borough into three separate wards as may seem fit by such names, and with such boundaries as shall in and by the proclamation be assigned to them, and such new wards shall be in lieu of the former wards:
The provisions contained in the first part of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," relating to petitions to and proclamations by Superintendents shall apply to petitions and proclamations under this section, and the provisions of the said Act applying to boroughs newly divided into wards, shall, as far as applicable, apply to boroughs newly divided into wards under this Act:
No borough shall be newly divided into wards upon or within thirty days before or after any day appointed for an annual election of Councillors in or for the borough or any ward thereof:
The Councillors who shall be in office in any borough at the time when the same shall be newly divided shall be severally allotted to each such ward by the Superintendent in and by the proclamation newly dividing such ward, or in and by any other instrument, and if any seat or seats shall be vacant at the time of such new division the Superintendent shall determine for which ward or wards such seats shall be deemed to be vacant and the same shall be deemed extraordinary vacancies:
And whereas, by "The County of Westland Act, 1868," it is enacted that in any Act of the General Assembly except such as relate to the election of Superintendents and Provincial Councils and to legislation by such Councils, and to appointments of Deputy Superintendents, and to audit of Provincial Accounts and matters of a like kind, the word "Province" shall include "County of Westland," and the word "Superintendent" shall include with regard to such County any person whom the Governor may from time to time appoint to perform within such County those duties and exercise those powers under any such Act, which might, if such duties or powers had to be performed or exercised within a Province, be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of such Province:
And whereas, by an Order in Council, dated the 27th January, 1871, and published in The New Zealand Gazette, No. 7, of the 31st of January, 1871, His Excellency the
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1872, No 16
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🏘️ Proclamation on Division of Boroughs into Wards
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