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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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land being Section No. 305 (in red), in the Township of Geraldine, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, containing 5 acres 2 roods, more or less, and known as “The Small Park.” Bounded North-eastward and Eastward by reserves and private lands; North-westward by Cox Street; and South-westward by High Street.

Also all that piece or parcel of land being Section No. 306 (in red), in the Township of Geraldine, in the said provincial district, containing 23 acres 1 rood 13 perches, more or less, and known as “The Large Park.” Bounded North-eastward by High Street; Eastward by reserves and private lands; North-westward by Cox Street; Westward by a gully known as the “Dry Creek;” and Southward by the road forming the southern boundary of the township.

And also all that piece or parcel of land being Section No. 1624 (in red), in the Township of Geraldine, in the said provincial district, containing 8 acres 1 rood, more or less, and known as “The Gardens.” Bounded North-eastward by Totara Street; South-eastward by Jollie Street; North-westward by Tripp Street; and South-westward by High Street.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Wanganui Education Board to be subject to Provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Leasesholds Act, 1886.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1887.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Public Bodies’ Leasesholds Act, 1886” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that His Excellency the Governor may, by Order in Council, from time to time declare that any leasing authority shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act, but that no such order shall be issued except at the request or on the recommendation of the leasing authority on whose behalf such order is to be issued:

And whereas it has been made to appear that the Education Board of the District of Wanganui are a leasing authority within the meaning of the said Act, and have recommended to His Excellency the Governor that they may be brought under the provisions of the said Act:

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that, from and after the date hereof, the Education Board of the District of Wanganui shall be subject to the provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Leasesholds Act, 1886.”

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Lands permanently reserved.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and twenty-seventh section of “The Land Act, 1885,” 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 purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the two hundred and twenty-eighth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two hundred and twenty-seventh section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the several warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

First Column.
DESCRIPTION OF RESERVES.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.