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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or otherwise, 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.

Order to take Land for Waikato-Thames Railway (Section from Hikutaia to Te Aroha).

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of May, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth order that the Government work known as the Waikato-Thames Railway, having an average width of three hundred links, shall be constructed on or through all lands held or occupied by Native owners, as mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Henry Alley’s land at Hikutaia, as described in Proclamation dated the 4th September, 1879, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 95, of the 11th September, 1879, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction for a distance of 19 miles or thereabouts, passing in, through, or over the following lands, &c.: Henry Alley’s land at Hikutaia; A. McAskil’s land at Hikutaia; Kaimanawa Block; Native land; Te Komata North; Te Komata South; Tawakarewakauri; land granted to J. Thorp; Hararahi No. 1; Hararahi No. 2; Opatito; Te Arero-o-Huatata No. 2; Te Paeroa; Te Arero-o-Huatata No. 1; Blocks Nos. 5858, 5370; Muraoteahi, 5814, 1875, 5800, 4454; Koromatua Nos. 1, 2, and 3; Te Manukau; Te Waka-o-Tiki te Aroha; Otamaurunganui; Takapau; Taumatawhine No. 2; Native land; Mangamutu; Te Paeroa No. 1; Ngakuoneone; Waitoki; Karaka; Te Maire; Patuwhao; Sections Nos. 1, 5, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and Pa Reserve, Te Aroha Goldfield; Ruakaka; land owned by Emma Lipsey; and terminating at a point on the north-western boundary of Emma Street, Te Aroha Goldfield Township, situate in Block IX., Te Aroha Survey District: all within the Counties of Thames, Ohinemuri, and Piako, Provincial District of Auckland, Colony of New Zealand; the same being more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 7365, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in Section 5, Block III., Tahoraite Survey District, not required for Public Use, authorized to be sold.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of May, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” it is enacted that, if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under that Act or any other Act or provincial ordinance, or otherwise however, for public works, is not required for public use, the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein set forth:

And whereas the Minister for Public Works has laid before the Governor the memorial referred to in the section aforesaid, praying the Governor, by an Order in Council, to cause such land to be sold:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, 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 and pursuance of the powers and authorities aforesaid, do hereby order and authorize the land described in the Schedule hereto to be sold and dealt with in the manner and subject to the conditions of the fourteenth and following sections of the above in part recited Act.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13847, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting a Reserve in the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of May, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto was reserved for a site for an agricultural and pastoral society’s show-ground: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society:

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 fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the said reserve shall become vested in the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society, in trust, for a site for an agricultural and pastoral show-ground.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, being Section No. 20, Block VIII., Heretaunga Survey District, containing by admeasurement 14 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North-west by the Tutaekuri River; towards the South-east by a road-line; and towards the South-west by Section No. 19: as the same is delineated on the plans in the Survey Office, Napier.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Special Order altering the Boundaries of the Mauku Road District and the Pukekohe West Road District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Counties Acts Amendment Act, 1885,” it is provided that all the powers of a County Council relating to the alteration of the boundaries of any road or town districts within a county, or of amalgamating any of such districts, or of merging any of them into the county, and all other powers in relation to any such districts exercisable by the Council, by special order or on petition, may be exercised by the Governor in Council in respect of any of the counties wherein the said Act is suspended: And whereas “The Counties Act, 1876,” is suspended in the County of Manukau: And whereas in pursuance of “The Road Boards Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1883,” petitions have been presented to His Excellency the Governor praying His Excellency, by special order, to alter