PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE. 157

for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Westland for the Electoral District set opposite his name:—

MATTHEW PRICE, Esq.—Okarito.

DANIEL POLLEN

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 59, November 12, 1874.]

Provincial Registration Officer appointed for the Province of Westland.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1874.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, to appoint

GERARD GEORGE FITZGERALD, Esq.,

to be the Registration Officer for the Province of Westland for the purpose of framing Electoral Rolls for the election of the Superintendent and of the Members of the Provincial Council of the said Province.

DANIEL POLLEN.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 59, November 12, 1874.]

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, November 11, 1874.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful Tenderers is published for general information.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister for Public Works).

WAIMEA WATER-RACE.

SECTION No. 6.

Accepted.

Wm. Smith, Hokitika . . . 19,462 16 0

Declined.

James Thompson . . . . . 21,141 12 6
Cullen and Dee, Hokitika . 30,146 10 0
Stenhouse and Co., Hokitika 29,890 0 0
M’Lean and Jack, Hokitika 32,977 10 0
Wm. Evans . . . . . . . . 23,124 5 0

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 59, November 12, 1874.]

Warrant abolishing a Polling Place.

JAMES FERGUSSON, 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 Polling Places to be the Principal Polling Place for the district, and all or any of such Polling Places from time to time to abolish, and, if he think fit, 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 Warrant under the hand of the Governor, bearing date the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,

The Booth on North Beach, at mouth of Haast River,

was appointed a Polling Place for the Province of Westland, for the election of a Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council thereof:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now know ye that I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named Polling Place for the Province of Westland, for the election of a Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council thereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 11th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.