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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1879.

First Meeting of Whangarei High School Board.
(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in me for this purpose by "The
Whangarei High School Act, 1878," I, Sir Hercules
George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint that the
first meeting of the Board of Governors of the
Whangarei High School shall be held at the Court-
house at Whangarei, on Monday, the eleventh day
of August proximo, at two o'clock p.m.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
G. GREY.

Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to order or
direct that all or any of the powers, functions, duties,
and authorities vested in or required to be performed
by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the
Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any pro-
vince or other district of the colony, shall be exercised
or performed by the Superintendent of any such pro-
vince, or by any other person the Governor may
think fit, subject however to any limitations or re-
strictions as he may think fit; and thereupon such
functions, powers, duties, and authorities may, by
such Superintendent or other person, be exercised or
performed within the province or other district of the
colony specified in such order; and in like manner to
alter or revoke any such order:

And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date
the tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine, the powers granted to the Colonial
Secretary under the seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth
sections of the said Act were delegated to John
Bathgate, to be exercised by him within the Otago
District: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the
delegations of the powers granted to the said John
Bathgate under the said sections, and to delegate the
said powers in manner 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, doth, by this present order, revoke the afore-
said delegation to the said John Bathgate, and doth
hereby delegate to

WILLIAM LAWRENCE SIMPSON

the powers granted to the Colonial Secretary under
the seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth sections of the
said Act, and doth hereby order that the said powers
shall be exercised by the said William Lawrence
Simpson within the said Otago District.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Delegation of Powers under the Lunatics Act relating
to the Discharge of Patients.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-second day of July, 1879.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fourth section of "The Luna-
tics Act, 1868" (hereinafter called "the said

ERRATUM. In Gazette No. 76, page 976, Appointment of Officers, No. 1 Company Carlyle Rifle Volunteers, for "Charles
Allan Wray," read "Charles Allen Wray," to be Captain.