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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

conferred by "The Public Domains Act, 1860," ex-
cept 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 Dunedin Botanical Domain Board:-
JOHN MARSHALL, Esquire,
JOHN LILLIE GILLIES, Esquire,
CHARLES STEPHEN REEVES, Esquire,
His Worship the MAYOR of DUNEDIN (ex
officio),
ARTHUR BEVERLY, Esquire,
The COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS (ex
officio), and
FREDERICK REVANS CHAPMAN, Esquire,
(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 second Wednesday in each month, at
   four 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 Wednesday, the twelfth day of May, one
   thousand eight hundred and eighty.

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 Wednesday in February 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.

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 Schedule hereto shall be changed
from that of a reserve for a site "for public build-
ings," and doth hereby declare that the purpose of
the said reserve shall be changed to that of "for
municipal purposes." And, by and with the like
advice and consent, doth hereby declare that the said
reserve shall become and the same is hereby vested in
the said Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the
Borough of Wanganui from the fourth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty aforesaid,
"for municipal purposes."

SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land situate in the Town of
Wanganui, Provincial District of Wellington, being
Reserve J, containing 1 acre 3 roods 22 perches, more
or less. Bounded towards the North-west by Dublin
Street, 505 links; towards the East by Tongariro
Quay, 904 links; and towards the South-west by
Ball Street, 750 links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of the Kumeroa Village
Settlement.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of May, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-first section of "The
Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879," it is
enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the
terms and conditions upon which the lands comprised
in any village settlement shall be disposed of, and
the mode of payment for the same: And whereas
the Governor has, by Proclamation in the New Zea-
land Gazette, bearing date this sixth day of May,
set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedules
hereto for sale as a village settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part
recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Execu-
tive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth
hereby fix the following terms and conditions upon
which the said village settlement shall be disposed of,
and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,-

1. The lands enumerated in the said Schedules
   hereto shall all be disposed of as small farm allot-
   ments.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for
   application shall be Thursday, the tenth day of
   June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, at the
   Land Office at Napier.

3. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule
   hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase,
   and the lands enumerated in the Second Schedule
   hereto shall be sold on deferred payments.

4. The lands which are disposed of by sale upon
   deferred payments shall be subject to the provisions
   relating to suburban land of Part III. of "The Land
   Act, 1877," and to the provisions of section nine, of
   "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879."

5. The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall
   be the prices at which the lands shall be open for
   application.