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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

day of April next; and in the Westland District, at
the Supreme Courthouse at Hokitika, on the thirty-
first day of March next, Circuit Courts for the
despatch of Civil and Criminal business of the said
Court.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said colony, 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 Opotiki
Township Domain Board :"-

ROBERT KING,
STEWART BATES,
GEORGE STEVENSON,
JOHN FORSYTH CONNELLY,
HENRY WATSON PENNY

(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
   three o'clock in the afternoon, at the office of the
   Chairman, 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 Monday, the seventh day of
   April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
   nine.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the
   Chairman, 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 any annual meeting to be
   held on the first Monday in April, 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 the 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 ma-
   jority of votes of the members of the Board present
   at a meeting.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of March, 1879.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

B
Y virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the eleventh section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," I, James Prendergast, the
Administrator of the Government 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 Auck-
land, and known as the "Opotiki Recreation-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 provisions 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land containing by admeasurement
3 roods, more or less, being Allotments numbers
12, 13, and 28, of Section number 1, in the Town of
Opotiki, Parish of Waioeka, and County of Opotiki.
Bounded on the North by a street 100 links wide,
200 links; on the East by Allotments numbers 14
and 27, 500 links; on the South by a street of width
aforesaid, 100 links; on the West by Allotment
number 29, 250 links; again on the South by Allot-
ment number 29 aforesaid, 100 links; and again on
the West by Allotment number 11, 250 links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Opotiki Township Domain
Board under "The Public Domains Act, 1860."

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of March, 1879.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS 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 revoked:
And whereas it is enacted by "The Public Domains
Act, 1865," that the word "person" in the herein-
before 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

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of March, 1879.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS the land mentioned in the first column
of the Schedule hereto was reserved for a
gravel pit on the sixth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven ;