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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

by Allotment No. 1 of the Parish of Pakuranga
aforesaid, 1037 links: save and excepting a road 100
links wide, which intersects the area above described;
be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same
is delineated on the official maps in the Survey Office,
Auckland.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of April, 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 revoked:
And whereas it is enacted by "The Public Domains
Act, 1865," that the word "person" in the herein-
before recited section of "The Public Domains Act,
1860," shall be deemed to include more persons than
one: And whereas pursuant to "The Public Re-
serves 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 Pakuranga
Domain Board:-

CHARLES PYE,
EDWARD FITZPATRICK,
JOSEPH ROBERTS,
LAURENCE FITZPATRICK, and
ASCOT ROBERTS

(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 Saturday in each month, at
   seven o'clock p.m., at the Public Hall, Pakuranga,
   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 Saturday, the twenty-eighth day of May,
   one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the
   Chairman, or by any two members of the Board, pro-
   vided 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

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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 ma-
   jority of votes of the members of the Board present
   at a meeting.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Featherston Recreation-ground brought under "The
Public Domains Act, 1860."

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of April, 1881.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the eleventh section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," 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, do hereby order and declare that
the reserve made for public recreation in the Provin-
cial District of Wellington, and known as the Feather-
ston Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule
hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under
the operation of and declared to be subject to the
provisions of "The Public Domains Act, 1860," and
its amending Acts; and such domain shall hereafter
be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Wellington, containing by admeasurement 57 acres,
more or less, being the Town Reserve on the plan of
the Township of Featherston. Bounded towards the
North by Rural Section No. 66, the abutment of a
public road, and Suburban Section No. 120, 1700
links; towards the East by Town Sections Nos. 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59,
60, 61, and 62, and the abutments of Hart Street,
Revans Street, Fox Street, Bell Street, and Harrison
Street, and by the north side of Fox Street, 5600
links; towards the South by the main line of road
from Wellington to Featherston, 650 links; and
towards the West by Suburban Section No. 464 and
by Rural Section No. 516, 4803 links.

Also all that parcel of land in the Land District
of Wellington, containing by admeasurement 22
acres, more or less, being Section No. 338 on the
plan of the Township of Featherston. Bounded
towards the North by Section No. 487 and main
line of road from Wellington, 2400 links; towards
the East by Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Town of Feather-
ston, 720 links; and towards the South by the
Otauira River, 4400 links: as the same is delineated
on the official maps in the Survey Office, Wellington.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.