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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Powers delegated to the Oxford Recreation Domain
Board under "The Public Domains Act, 1860."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eighteenth day of November, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of "The
Public Domains Act, 1860," it is enacted
that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from
time to time delegate all or any of the powers by the
said Act conferred upon any person, for any period,
and subject to such stipulations as may be specified
in such order, and that every such delegation may
from time to time in like manner be altered or re-
voked: And whereas it is enacted by "The Public
Domains Act, 1865," that the word "person" in the
hereinbefore recited section of "The Public Domains
Act, 1860," shall be deemed to include more persons
than one: And whereas, pursuant to "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," by an Order in Council of even
date herewith, the land described in the Schedule
thereto is declared to be brought under and to be
subject to the said "Public Domains Act, 1860:"

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth, by this
present order, delegate all the powers conferred by
the Act first above mentioned, except the powers
under or conferred by subsections five and ten of
section five and section eleven, to the under-men-
tioned persons, who shall be known as the "Oxford
Recreation Domain Board:"—

JOSEPH PEARSON, Senior,
RICHARD PERHAM,
JOHN MULLINS,
JOHN RHODES PEARSON,
JOHN R. GORTON

(herein referred to as "the Board"), subject to the
stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of
   business, on the first Monday in each month, at seven
   o'clock in the evening, at the office of the Oxford
   Road Board, or at such other time or place as may
   from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first
   meeting shall be held on Thursday, the twelfth day
   of December, one thousand eight hundred and
   seventy-eight.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chair-
   man, or by any two members of the Board, provided
   that two days' notice of such meeting be given to
   each member specifying the business to be transacted
   at such special meeting; and no other business than
   that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any three of the said Board shall form a quorum.
   Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall at their first
   meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be
   held on the first Monday in January in every suc-
   ceeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be
   Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall
   have an original as well as a casting vote. The
   Chairman shall hold office until the election of his
   successor.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present
   at the time appointed for holding the same, the mem-
   bers present shall choose some one of their number
   to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death or incapacity, or other-
   wise, the office of Chairman shall be or become
   vacant the members may at any monthly or special
   meeting appoint a Chairman.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority
   of votes of the members of the Board present at a
   meeting.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Oxford Recreation-ground brought under "The
Public Domains Act, 1860."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this
eighteenth day of November, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the eleventh section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," I, George Augustus Constan-
tine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, do
hereby order and declare that the reserve made for
public recreation in the Provincial District of
Canterbury, and known as the "Oxford Recreation-
ground," and described in the Schedule hereto, shall
be and the same is hereby brought under the opera-
tion of and declared to be subject to the provisions
of "The Public Domains Act, 1860," and its amend-
ing Acts; and such domain shall hereafter be managed,
administered, and dealt with in manner directed by
the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Canter-
bury containing by admeasurement two hundred and
sixteen (216) acres, more or less, being Section num-
bered 1651 (in red). Bounded towards the West by
Section numbered 25509 for a distance of forty-eight
[48] chains sixty-four [64] links; towards the South
by the Eyre Road South for a distance of thirty-four
[34] chains eighty-eight [88] links; and towards the
East by Section numbered 24130; and also by a line
in continuation of its western boundary, a distance
altogether of fifty-one [51] chains fifty-five [55] links:
as the same is delineated on the official map in the
Provincial District Survey Office, Christchurch.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Moa Flat and Ettrick Recreation-ground brought
under "The Public Domains Act, 1860."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eighteenth day of November, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the eleventh section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," I, George Augustus Constan-
tine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, do
hereby order and declare that the reserve made for
public recreation in the Provincial District of Otago,
and known as the "Moa Flat and Ettrick Recrea-
tion-ground," and described in the Schedule hereto,
shall be and the same is hereby brought under the
operation of and declared to be subject to the pro-
visions of "The Public Domains Act, 1860," and its
amending Acts; and such domain shall hereafter be
managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Acts.