PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

elected at the particular election for which
they are nominated, then a poll shall be
taken at such place in each District as shall
be fixed for that purpose by the Superintendent by notice in the Provincial Gazette as aforesaid.

4. The poll shall be opened in each District at ten o’clock in the forenoon and
   closed at four o’clock in the afternoon of
   such day as shall be appointed by the
   Superintendent by such notice as aforesaid
   to be the polling day.

5. The voting shall be by ballot, and shall
   be taken by means of voting-papers, which
   shall be provided by the Returning Officer.
   The voting-papers shall contain the names of
   each candidate. One voting-paper shall be
   handed to each voter as he comes to record
   his vote. The voter shall be instructed, by
   notice to be posted in some conspicuous part
   of the room where the polling shall be held,
   to erase the names of the candidate or
   candidates for whom he does not wish to
   vote. The Returning Officer shall provide a
   convenient place or places in which the
   voters may erase the names from their
   voting-papers without being seen, and shall
   also provide pencils for the purpose.

Each voter, after having prepared his
paper, shall fold and deposit the same in the
ballot-box in the presence of the Returning
Officer or his deputy. No voter shall be
allowed to take his voting-paper out of the
polling room.

Voters’ Roll.

6. For the purposes of the first election,
   the roll of ratepayers for the time being in
   force in the respective districts, shall form the
   roll of voting ratepayers. Provided that
   with regard to the towns of Hokitika and
   Greymouth each voter shall be entitled to
   one vote only in the same manner as the
   voters in the other Districts.

7. For all elections after the first, the
   ratepayers entitled to vote shall be the
   persons in the respective Districts whose
   names shall appear in the Rate Collector’s
   book as persons liable to pay rates.

8. The Rate Collector’s book for each
   District respectively shall be the ratepayers
   roll for the district to which such book
   refers.

Given under my hand at Hokitika, and
sealed with the Seal of the Province, this 4th day of July, 1874.

JAS. A. BONAR,
Superintendent of the Province of Westland.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Hokitika, Sept. 19, 1874.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it
to be notified for general information,
that the following appointments have been made:—

Sergeant Sören Christopher William
Müller
to be Inspector of Weights and Measures
for the Grey District, and Constable

James Douglas
to be Inspector of Weights and Measures
for the Hokitika District.

CHARLES WOOLCOCK,
Provincial Secretary.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 48, Sept. 10, 1874.]

Provincial Ordinances left to their operation.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, Sept. 9, 1874.

THE following Ordinances passed by the
Provincial Council, and assented to by
the Superintendent of Westland on behalf of
the Governor, intituled

“The Education Ordinance, 1874;”
“The Trespass and Impounding Ordinance, 1874;”
“The Appropriation Ordinance, 1874;”
and
“The Hokitika Street Closing Ordinance, 1874,”

having been laid before the Governor, His
Excellency has not been advised to exercise
his power of disallowance in respect of the same.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Printed by Wm. Riley, at the Westland General Printing Office, Wharf-street, authorised Printer
for the time being for the Government of Westland.