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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of May, 1879.
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 Sheffield
Domain Board:-

ARTHUR WILLIAM ALDRED,
DAVID JEBSON,
WILLIAM MINCHIN,
WILLIAM ROSSITER,
WALTER JOHN TAYLOR, and
ROBERT COLTHART

(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 p.m., at the East Malvern Road Board Office,
   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 twenty-sixth day of June,
   one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

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.

Extension of Time for Preparation of County Rolls,
County of Hawke's Bay.

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

WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the times
allowed by "The Counties Act, 1876," for
the doing of the acts, matters, and things required
for the preparation of rolls for the ridings of the
County of Hawke's Bay:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and in pur-
suance of the power and authority vested in him by
the second section of "The Temporary Powers Act,
1878," and of every other power and authority him
enabling thereunto, doth by this regulation extend
the time for preparing the roll of each riding in the
said County of Hawke's Bay, in accordance with the
forty-second section of the said Act, to the twentieth
day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine; and doth hereby declare that the time during
which the copies of the rolls shall be kept open for
public inspection, as mentioned in the forty-sixth
section of the said Act, shall be extended so that
such rolls shall be open for public inspection at all
reasonable hours from the twenty-sixth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, to the
twenty-first day of June, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine; and doth hereby declare that any
person who considers himself aggrieved by any entry
on or omission from such rolls may apply for relief,
as provided by the forty-seventh section of the said
Act, on or before the last day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine; and doth hereby
declare that the day to be appointed by the Resident
Magistrate for the revision of such roll, as provided
in the forty-eighth section of the said Act, shall be
some day on or after the first day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, but the
Court shall not sit after the twentieth day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine; and doth hereby declare that such roll, when
corrected as aforesaid, shall come into force on the
first day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Constituting Awhea Rabbit District.

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

WHEREAS by "The Rabbit Nuisance Act 1876
Amendment Act, 1877," it is enacted that, in
addition to the power of proclaiming districts given
by the third section of "The Rabbit Nuisance Act