BOARD OF WARDENS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 295, 25 September 1873, Page 6

BOARD OF WARDENS.

WAIFQ3I DEPASTURING- DISTRICT.

The district specified in the foliowschedule has been proclaimed and constituted a depasturing district, and the Regulations of the. 23rd June, 1868, ?ball be the depasturing regulations for the same i — All that area in, the Province of Ofcago^ containing by admeasurement seven thousand she hundred ancl fifty acres, more or less, being originally portions of runs numbered respectively and 51 on the nj.ap of the «outh-eaetem disirrefc of ihe sard: province i bounded by a lrae commencing -at the Lammerlaw Greek and proceeding due east through Trigonometrical! Station M, Waipori Survey District, to commonage Creek, thence by "Oommoa,age Creek and the Waipori River to the junction of 1 Pioneer Creek with' the Waipori: River ; thence by Pioneer. to its junction, with Ox Burn ; thence by CXx Burn and a, direct Jrae

south of tha source of the Pastoral Creek ; thence by Pastoral Creek and the Waipori River to the junction of the Lammerlaw Creek ; thence along Lammerlaw Creek to the starting pointt-f-The first election of Wardens fop the depasturing district of Waipoii will be held on Thursday, the sixteenth day of October next ensuing. The Board of Wardens for the district aforesaid shall consist of five elective members, one of whom shall hereafter be appointed chairman. The following regulations shall be the regulations for the first election as aforesaid. 1. Nominations of candidates must be made in writing, addressed to the Warden at Lawrence, on or before Monday, the thirteenth day of October next, and in the following form, which must be signed in full by the proposer and seconder of every such candidate. Form. To the Warden at Lawrence. (Place and date.) We hereby nominate (here insert name in full) to he a memher of the first Board of Wardens of the Waipori Depasturing District (Signatures.) After the signatures of the proposer and seconder, the nature and particulars of the qualification under which they claim to vote must be stated. 2. If more than the requisite number of candidates are nominated, a poll shall take place on Thursday, the 16th October, from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., and after the latter hour no further vote shall be allowed to be recorded ; and the candidates in .whose favor the greatest number of votes shall have been recorded at the said hour of 4 p.m. (or in the event of there not being more than the requisite number, then the candidates nominated) shall, as soon thereafter as may be, be declared by the Warden or other officer to have been duly elected for the ensuing six months. 3. No person shall be entitled to be so nominated, nor shall any person be entitled so to nominate, or to second the nomination ef any candidate, unless he shall be possessed of one or i other of the qualifications set forth ' and specified in Regulation No. 5 of the said Regulations. 4. If any person shall be improperly elected as a member of the Board of Wardens, he not being duly and lawfully possessed of the qualification aforesaid at the time of election, it shall be in the power of the Board, upon due inquiry into all the circumstances of the case, to declare by a majority of votes that such election is ' null and void, and thereupon an election shall be held when and where, and as may be determined by the Board, for filling up the deficiency caused by such declaration. 5. Voters must attend in person to record their votes, and the document by virtue whereof they claim to vote must be produced to the Warden or presiding officer, who after recording such vote shall cause to be written upon some conspicuous part thereof the words "Voted, October 16th. 1873," together with his signature or initials, 6. The poll (if taken) will be held at the Courthouse at Waipori. 7. The names of all the candidates nominated shall be advertised in the local papers, and set forth in a notice affixed to the front of the Courthouse.