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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

the Road Board Office, South Rakaia, 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 Thursday, the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman 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 transacted 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 succeeding 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 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.

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SCHEDULE,

ALL that parcel of land in the Township of South Rakaia, Provincial District of Canterbury, containing 50 acres, more or less. Bounded—South-eastward by Lots Nos. 31 to 36 inclusive; North-westward by Lots Nos. 19 and 20; and North-eastward and South-westward by road-lines: and numbered 2442 (in red) on the official map in the Survey Office, Christchurch.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Powers delegated to the Howick Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of January, 1886.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth, with the like advice and consent, by this present order, delegate, but only with respect to the pieces or parcels of land described in the Schedule hereto, all the powers conferred by the Act aforesaid, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Howick Public Domain Board, namely,—

THOMAS McINNES,
JOHN FINLAY,
THOMAS HEATH,
JOHN WILLIAM WHITE, and
THOMAS CRAWFORD

(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 twelve o’clock noon, at the Howick Public Library, 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 fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman 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 transacted 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 succeeding 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 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL those parcels of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 8 acres, more or less, being Lots Nos. 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, and 148 of small lots near the Village of Howick. Bounded towards the North by a street, 800 links; on the East by a street, 1000 links; on the South by a street, 800 links; and towards the West by a street, 1000 links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Native Land taken for Roads in Waikohu Survey District, Cook County, Provincial District of Auckland.

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Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1885.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE COLONIAL TREASURER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that 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 hereby order that the Government work known as a road, in Waikohu Survey District, Cook County, Provincial District of Auckland, shall and may be constructed on or through the parcels of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and delineated in the plan marked P.W.D. 13520, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the said colony, and thereon coloured red.

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SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Vesting Reserves in the Town of Alexandra.

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Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is provided that the reserves to be made for any borough or town district under such section shall be made only in cases where no such reserves for the purpose of sections three, five, and six of “The Plans of Towns Regulation Act, 1875,” exist therein, or, if existing, do not equal or exceed the amount of reserves authorized to be made under such last-mentioned Act:

And whereas by a warrant bearing date the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, certain lots of land were vested in the Town of Alexandra as an endowment in aid of the Town Board funds: And whereas it is deemed expedient to revoke the said warrant:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance