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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 16

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

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of March, 1881.
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 Papanui
Domain Board:-

ALBERT MILES PHILPOTT,
DAVID THOMAS,
DIEDRICK KRUSE,
WILLIAM MUNRO,
JAMES JACKSON,
GEORGE HARPER,
ROBERT MARSHALL CRESSWELL,
JAMES LOW, and
WILLIAM MOIR

(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 Wild's Hotel, Papanui, 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 fourth day of April, 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.

Vesting Wharves at Akaroa in the Akaroa Borough
Council.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of March, 1881.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of "The Harbours
Act, 1878," it is enacted that the Governor
in Council may vest the management of any wharf,
the property of Her Majesty, in any local governing
body or person, upon such terms and conditions as
the Governor in Council thinks fit:

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 colony, and in exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the said fourteenth section
of "The Harbours Act, 1878," do hereby vest the
management of the "Akaroa Wharf" and the wharf
locally known as "Daly's Wharf," both within the
Borough of Akaroa, in the Akaroa Borough Council,
subject, however, to the reservation of all existing
rights, and subject to the conditions set forth in the
Schedule hereto: Provided always that the aforesaid
conditions, and other rights and privileges hereby
conferred, may from time to time be altered, revoked,
or modified by the Governor in Council.

SCHEDULE.

1. That all Her Majesty's subjects shall, at all
   reasonable times, and upon payment of the proper
   dues, have free and full liberty to use either of the
   above-mentioned wharves, and of ingress and egress
   thereon.

2. That Her Majesty or the Governor, and all
   officers of the Marine Department or Customs acting
   in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have
   free ingress, passage, and egress into, through, and
   out of the wharves without payment.

3. That the said Borough Council shall maintain
   and keep the above-mentioned wharves and all erec-
   tions thereon in good order and repair, and shall at
   all times permit to be erected and exhibited there-
   from any lights for the guidance of vessels, and shall
   maintain at its own cost any such lights: Provided
   that no new light shall be exhibited until after it has
   been approved of by the Marine Department.

4. That any person authorized by the Minister
   having charge of the Marine Department, or any
   officer acting with his approval, may at all reasonable
   times enter upon the said wharves and any buildings
   erected thereon and view the state of repair thereof,
   and may leave at the last known office of the Council
   a notice in writing of any defect requiring the Council,
   within a reasonable time to be therein prescribed, to
   repair the same.

5. That the Council will not erect or suffer to be
   erected on the said wharves any building or structure
   whatever, except with the consent of the Marine
   Department.

6. That nothing herein contained shall authorize
   the Council to do or cause to be done anything re-