THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 551

'Powers delegated to the Waikaia Domain Board
under "The Public Domains Act, 1860."

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of April, 1879.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 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 "Waikaia
Domain Board:"-

WILLIAM JOHN BRAITHWAITE,
ROBERT FULTON,
ALEXANDER MATHESON,
HECTOR SIMSON,
JOSEPH HAMPTON DAVIDSON

(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 7
   o'clock p.m., at Alexander Matheson's Assembly-
   rooms, Waikaia, 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 8th day
   of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
   nine.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chair-
   man, or by any two members of the Beard, provided
   that two days' notice of such meeting be given to
   each member, specifying the business to be trans-
   acted 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.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve..

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of April, 1879.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHE
HEREAS the land mentioned in the first column
of the Schedule hereto was reserved by "The
Oamaru Town Reserves Management Ordinance,
1872," for a site for a slaughterhouse:

And whereas the said reserve is for one of the pur-
poses named in Part I. of the Schedule to "The
Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1878," and, in
the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to
change the purpose of such reserve to another of
the purposes named in the said Part I. as hereinafter
mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said colony,
and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in
him by the sixth section of "The Public Reserves Act
Amendment Act, 1878," doth hereby order and direct
that the purpose of the reserve mentioned in the first
column of the said Schedule hereto shall be changed
from that of a reserve for a slaughterhouse, and doth
hereby declare and define the purpose of the said
reserve to be that specified in the second column of
the said Schedule, the same being one of the purposes
named in Part I. of the Schedule to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

| Description of Land Reserved. | Purpose to
which Reserve
is Changed. |
|---|---|
| All that area in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement one (1) acre and twenty-one (21) poles, more or less, situate in the Town of Oamaru, being Sections numbered respectively 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, Block XIV., on the map of the said town, deposited in the office of Crown Lands at Dunedin. | For municipal purposes. |

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve.

HERCULES ROBINSON,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eighth day of April, 1879.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS the land mentioned in the first column
of the Schedule hereto is a portion of a reserve
for a cemetery for the City of Dunedin:

And whereas the said reserve is for one of the