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Dated this twenty-ninth day of October,
1872.

JAMES HAMILTON.

Signed and declared by the above named
James Hamilton, in the presence of R. C.
Reid, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony
of New Zealand.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
57, of the 31st October, 1872.]

PROCLAMATION.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

By virtue and in pursuance of the power
and authority vested in me by The
County of Westland Act, 1868, and of every
power and authority in this behalf enabling me,
I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor
of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing
Polling Places for the Electoral Districts de-
scribed in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act,
and do hereby appoint the following Polling
Places for the Electoral Districts respectively
hereinafter named, being the Districts de-
scribed in the said Fourth Schedule to the
said Act, in lieu thereof; that is to say—

Hokitika District.

Resident Magistrate’s Court House, Hokitika.

Greymouth District.

Resident Magistrate’s Court House, Grey-
mouth.

Paroa District.

Road Board Office, Paroa (Principal Polling
Place.)
Hamilton’s Machine Store, Marsden.
Court House, Arnold.
Court House, Pounamu.
Court House, Clifton.
Hamilton’s Store, German Gully.

Arahura District.

Court House, Stafford (Principal Polling
Place.)
Court House, Goldsborough.
W. Keech’s Store, Foot of Chesterfield Track.
R. Thompson’s Store, Callaghan’s.
J. Merritt’s Cottage, Fox’s.
Otto Hansen’s Store, German Gully.

Kanieri District.

Warden’s Court, Kanieri (Principal Polling
Place.)
Milner’s Bakery, Big Paddock.
Gemmel’s Old Store, Blue Spur.
Small’s Store, Woodstock.
McBeth’s Post Office Store, Upper Crossing,
Arahura.

Totara District.

Court House, Ross (Principal Polling Place.)
William Searle’s House, Donoghue’s.
School House, Bowen.
Daddo’s Hutt, McKenzies Creek.

Okarito District.

Court House, Okarito (Principal Polling
Place.)
House near McGoldrick’s Hotel, Saltwater.
Booth near Canavan’s Store, Five Mile Beach.
Booth near Matheson’s Store, Gillespie’s.
Kemper’s House, Hunt’s Beach.

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

JOHN HALL.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
57, of the 31st of October, 1872.]

PROCLAMATION.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

Whereas on the twenty-eighth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, in pursuance of the powers
vested in the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand by The Westland Waste Lands
Act, 1870, certain days were appointed to
be the days on which the Waste Lands Board
of the County of Westland should sit at the
principal Land Office of the said County, in
the Town of Hokitika:

And whereas by the said recited Act it is,
among other things, enacted that the principal
Land office of the said County shall be kept
at the Town of Hokitika, and the Waste
Lands Board shall sit there, and at certain
stated times to be determined from time to
time by the Governor as therein mentioned,
and shall also sit for special purposes at such
places and at such times as the Governor shall
from time to time direct:

And whereas it is expedient to appoint a
special day for the sitting of the said Board:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New