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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 parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 4 acres, more or less, situate in the Town of Pukerau, and being Sections Nos. respectively 8, 9, 10, and 11, Block V., of said town. Bounded towards the north-east by Middle Street, 1000 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 7 of said block, 400 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 24 and 23 of said block, 1000 links; towards the north-west by Section No. 12 of said block, 400 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land proposed to be taken at Otorohanga Station for the North Island Main Trunk Railway, from a Point at or near Marton to Te Awamutu, via Murimotu, Tauramaruui, and the Ongaruhu River Valley.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of December, 1887.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work authorised to be constructed by the Government, to wit, the North Island Main Trunk Railway, from a point at or near Marton to Te Awamutu, via Murimotu, Tauramaruui, and the Ongaruhu River Valley:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Public Works, Act, 1882," and the amendments thereof, and of all other powers in anywise 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 hereby order that the Government work known as the North Island Main Trunk Railway, from a point at or near Marton to Te Awamutu, via Murimotu, Tauramaruui, and the Ongaruhu River Valley, shall and may be constructed on or through the parcels of land more particularly mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

Approximate Area | Being Portion of | Situated in the
of the | | Survey District of
Parcel of Land | |
required to be | |
taken. | |
A. R. P. | Native land | Orarihi.
0 3 4 | |

In the Provincial District of Auckland; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15097, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Revocation of Notice withdrawing Lands in the Canterbury Land District from Sale.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor,
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

IN pursuance of the sixth section of "The Land Act, 1885," I, James Prendergast, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, do hereby revoke so much of a certain notification published at page one thousand two hundred and twelve of the New Zealand Gazette No. 84, dated the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, as relates to the sections of land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

• Unpurchased portion of the run situate on the plains.

As witness the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, as such Deputy of the said Governor as aforesaid, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Revocation of Notice classifying Pastoral Lands in the Canterbury Land District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor,
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

IN pursuance of the sixth section of "The Land Act, 1885," I, James Prendergast, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, do hereby revoke so much of a certain notification, published at page five hundred and twenty-seven of the New Zealand Gazette No. 35, dated the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, as relates to the blocks of land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, as such Deputy of the said Governor as aforesaid, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve at Moeraki, Otago.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and, in the case of any reserves made under the authority of section two hundred and twenty-seven of "The Land Act, 1885," if it shall, in the