AUG. 4.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

987

7. All questions shall be determined by the ma- jority of votes of the members of the Board present

at a meeting.

F. P. MURRAY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of August, 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 Provincial
District of Canterbury, and known as the Richmond
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 Christchurch Survey
District, Provincial District of Canterbury, containing
7 acres, more or less, being part of Rural Section No.
182, the boundaries of which are set forth in a cer-
tain deed of conveyance, Edward Corker Minchin to
Her Majesty the Queen, registered in the office of
the Registrar of Deeds, Canterbury; Index No.
62052. For the purposes of public recreation.

F. P. MURRAY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of August, 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 Richmond
Domain Board :-

William Flesher,
John Leaf Wilson,
Charles Brice,
William Craddock,
John Hebden,
George Swan,
William Frederick Hubbard,
John Grierson,
Joseph Free,
Henry Hobday,
William Kerr,
Charles Benjamin Taylor,
Jonadab Pearce, and
Hugh Hepburn

(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 half-
   past seven o'clock p.m., at the Schoolroom, Bingsland,
   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 Tuesday, the thirteenth day of September,
   one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the
   Chairman, or by 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 second Tuesday 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 ma-
   jority of votes of the members of the Board present
   at a meeting.

F. P. MURRAY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land Districts of
Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and forty-fourth
section of "The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted
that the Governor may from time to time, either by
general or particular description, and whether the
same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale
temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be
then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands
which, in his opinion, are required for any of the pur-
poses in the said section mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities