DEC. 30.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1785

tive Council of the said colony, do hereby revoke the
Order in Council delegating the Governor's powers
to the above-named persons; and do hereby further
delegate, in respect of the lands referred to in the
aforesaid Orders in Council, all the powers conferred
by "The Public Domains Act, 1860," except the
powers under or conferred by subsections five and
ten of section five, and section eleven, to the under-
mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Kowai
Pass Domain Board:-

JOHN DAVIES ENYS,
JAMES ARCHIBALD MCILRAITH,
GEORGE O. PARKER,
HENRY WILLIAMSON,
ROBERT COLTHART, and
GEORGE RUTHERFORD

(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 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 tenth day of January, one
   thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

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 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.

Defining the Purpose of a Reserve in Canterbury.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of December, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in my opinion, there is some doubt or
uncertainty as to the purpose for which the
land described in the Schedule hereto was reserved
and set apart:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, 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 conferred upon me by the seventh
section of "The Public Reserves Act Amendment

Act, 1878," do hereby declare and define that the
purpose for which the said land shall, from and after
the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, be dedicated, shall be
for a site for a cemetery.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 1
rood 33 perches, more or less, being part of Rural
Section No. 8992 in the Christchurch Survey Dis-
trict. Bounded-Southward by the Eyre Road
South; Northward by Section No. 9951; Westward
by Section No. 8992, and by a private road; and
Eastward by Section No. 8992: as the same is de-
lineated in a certificate of title registered in the Land
Transfer Office, Christchurch, Vol. lxix., folio 14.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing Purpose of a Reserve at Wanganui.

A. GORDON, Governor.

BY virtue and in pursuance of the powers in me
vested by clause nine of the Schedule to "The
Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1880," I, Arthur
Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby declare that the purposes
of the land described in the Schedule hereto, which
were reserved for municipal purposes by Order in
Council dated the fourth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, shall be changed to that of
a recreation-ground.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situate in the Town of Wanga-
nui, Provincial District of Wellington, being portions
of Reserves E and K (the Queen's Park), estimated to
contain 16 acres 24 perches, more or less. Bounded
towards the North-west by Cameron Terrace and the
extension of the same, 850 links; towards the North
by the site for the Girls' High School, 404 links and
500 links; towards the North-east by Harrison Place
and a site for a police station, 394 links, 200 links,
500 links, 200 links, and 106 links; towards the East
by the site for the Odd Fellows' Hall, 165 links and
38 links, and by the site for the Library and Museum,
125 links and 200 links; towards the South-east by
Ridgway Street, 650 links, and by Reserve A, 100
links and 250 links; and towards the South-west by
Sections Nos. 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 166, and 165,
700 links; by the site for a drill-shed, 250 links and
200 links; by the extension of Maria Place, 100
links and 150 links; and by a public road, 500 links.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-eighth day of De-
cember, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Authorizing the taking and laying down of Roads

over Native Land in the Auckland Provincial
District.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of all powers and au-
thorities enabling me in this behalf by "The
Native Lands Act, 1873," "The Native Land Act
Amendment Act, 1878 (No. 2)," and "The Public
Works Act, 1880," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
authorize

WILLIAM JOHN PALMER,
Surveyor, of Auckland, to take and lay down roads