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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 1

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington,
containing by admeasurement 27 acres, more or less, being
Section No. 89, Block III., Mangahao Survey District.
Bounded on the north by Suburban Sections Nos. 90, 91, and
93, and a public road; and on the south by a public road:
as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office
of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington. For road and river-bank
protection purposes.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington,
containing by admeasurement 66 acres, more or less, being
Section No. 83, Block VII., Mangahao Survey District.
Bounded on the north-east by Suburban Section No. 113;
on the east and south-east by a public road; and on the
south-west and north-west by a public road: as the same is
delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief
Surveyor, Wellington. For a stock reserve.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington,
containing by admeasurement 636 acres, more or less, being
Section No. 3, Block VII., Mangawhero Survey District.
Bounded on the north by Section No. 2; on the east by
the Wangachu River; on the south by Section No. 4; and
on the west by Sections Nos. 4 and 13, Block VI., Manga-
whero Survey District: as the same is delineated on the
plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Welling-
ton. For primary education.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-eight.

GEO. FISHER,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

Regulations under "The Defence Act, 1886."

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Defence Act, 1886" (hereinafter
termed "the said Act"), it is enacted, inter alia, that
whenever it shall be represented to the Governor that any
real or personal property is vested in or held by Trustees in
the manner specified in the said Act, the Governor may, in
the manner prescribed by section four of the said Act, make
regulations for all or any of the purposes in the said Act
specified: And whereas it has been represented to the
Governor that certain property is held by Trustees in trust
for the Taranaki Volunteers, and that the several corps
comprising such Volunteers were disbanded some years ago,
and no rolls have been preserved showing the names of
persons who, at the time of such disbanding, formed the
said several corps, or who, as members of such corps, were
entitled to the property so held on such disbandment: And
whereas it appears that it is now impossible for the said
Trustees to deal with such property without incurring
personal risk and responsibility, and it is expedient to make
the regulations hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir William Francis
Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in him by the said Act, and of all other
powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth
hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule
hereto, and doth declare that such regulations shall come
into force upon the day of the publication hereof in the
New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

1. THE following persons, namely, Charles Stapp, Lieutenant-
   Colonel, New Zealand Militia; John Ellis, Major, New Zea-
   land Volunteers; Frederick Lewis Webster, Captain, New
   Zealand Militia, are hereby appointed a Board to investigate
   the claims of any person or persons claiming to be members
   of any corps the property of which was, at the time of the
   disbandment of such corps, or is now, held by the following
   persons or the survivors of them, namely: The Hon. Sir
   Harry Albert Atkinson, K.C.M.G., Thomas Good, Patricio
   Grieve Wilson, William Black, Thomas McGuinness, Mat-
   thew Carrick, and Burton Charles Laurence, as Trustees for
   the Taranaki Volunteers.

2. The said Board shall meet at New Plymouth, on the
   15th day of January, 1889, at the hour of eleven a.m.;
   but, if from any cause such meeting shall not be held, the
   Governor may, by notice published in the Gazette, appoint
   another time and place as occasion shall require.

3. At its first meeting the Board shall, before proceeding
   to any further business, elect one of their number to be
   Chairman of the Board. Such Chairman shall when present
   preside at all the meetings of the Board, and if from any
   cause he be not present within half an hour from the time
   fixed for any meeting the members present shall elect one
   of their number as Chairman for the time being. The
   Chairman of the Board shall have a casting-vote upon all
   occasions in addition to his vote as a member of the Board,

A majority of the Board shall form a quorum at any
meeting.

4. After the appointment of a Chairman, as hereinbefore
   provided, the Board shall assemble at such times and places
   as may be appointed by the Chairman for the purpose of
   investigating all claims and any objections thereto which
   may be made with respect to the membership of any such
   disbanded corps as aforesaid, and shall, in making such
   investigation, be guided by the rules of the corps (if any)
   with respect to which such claims are made so far as such
   rules are applicable.

5. The decision of the majority of the members of the
   Board personally present and voting upon any question shall
   in all cases be binding as the decision of the Board.

6. The said Board shall at its first meeting settle a form
   of notice to be advertised calling upon all persons claiming
   to have been members of any such disbanded corps as afore-
   said at the time of its disbandment to send in particulars of
   their claims to the said Board before a specified date, not
   being less than one calendar month from the date of the
   first publication of the said notice.

7. Such notice shall be advertised for at least three times
   and not less than fourteen days prior to the date so specified,
   in such newspapers as the Board may determine.

8. Within seven days after the expiration of the time
   limited for the sending in of such claims as aforesaid the
   Chairman of the said Board shall convene a meeting of the
   Board for the purpose of considering such claims and any
   other claims of a like nature of which the Board may have
   had notice; and shall thereupon proceed to investigate the
   claims of all persons claiming to be recognised as members
   of the said corps at the time of disbandment thereof.

9. As soon as possible after the said meeting the Board
   shall cause to be prepared a list or lists of the several persons
   who, in its opinion, comprised the members of the said corps
   at the time of disbandment.

10. A copy of such list or lists shall be deposited at such
    places as the Board may deem necessary, and the same
    shall, after such deposit, be open to public inspection during
    ordinary business hours for such period and at such places
    as may be fixed by the Board.

11. Notice of the depositing of such list or lists, and of
    the time within which objections to the said lists may
    be lodged with the Board, shall be published in such news-
    papers and at such times and within such period as the
    Board may determine; and such notice shall appoint the
    time and place for hearing and determining such claims and
    objections as aforesaid, and shall be signed by the Chairman
    of the Board.

12. The Board shall conclude the said investigation within
    a period of six months from the date of appointment of the
    Board: Provided, however, that, if it be shown to the satis-
    faction of the Governor that such investigation cannot
    without injustice be concluded within the said period, the
    Governor, by notice published in the Gazette, may extend
    the time for such investigation as to him may appear ex-
    pedient.

13. Upon the conclusion of such investigation the Board
    shall prepare a revised list showing the names of all persons
    found by the Board to be members of the said corps at the
    time of disbandment, or who may be otherwise entitled
    under these regulations, together with the names, residences,
    and occupations of such persons so far as can be ascertained;
    and the Board shall thereupon forward to the said Trustees
    a copy of the said revised list duly verified by the signature
    of the Chairman of the Board.

14. The Trustees shall, within fourteen days after receipt of
    the said revised list, by notice delivered or posted to the
    address of each of the persons whose names appear on the
    said list, summon a meeting of such persons respectively, to
    be held at a convenient place to be therein named, and at a
    date not being earlier than twenty-one days nor later than
    thirty days after the whole of such notices have been posted
    or delivered as aforesaid. A statutory declaration by one or
    more of the said Trustees shall be sufficient evidence of the
    fact of posting the said notices.

15. At such meeting the persons present and entitled to vote
    shall elect a Chairman, and shall then proceed to determine
    in what manner and at what time the several properties and
    trust funds so held by the said Trustees as aforesaid shall
    be realised or disposed of, and the proceeds thereof paid and
    applied. At such meeting a book shall be provided by the
    Trustees, and the Chairman of the meeting shall cause full
    minutes of the proceedings thereat and particulars of every
    resolution passed to be taken and entered in the said book,
    and shall at the conclusion of the said meeting, and of every
    adjournment thereof, sign the said minutes. Any resolution
    shall be deemed to be carried at such meeting which shall
    be passed by a majority of the persons present and voting
    thereon. Any such meeting may be adjourned from time to
    time not exceeding three months from the date originally
    fixed for the holding thereof.

16. Persons entitled to vote at any meeting called by the