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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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towards the west generally by a road reserve 100 and 200 | Administrator of the Government, with the advice and con-
links, and by Section No. 6, Parish of Totara aforesaid, 180 | sent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth make the
links; and towards the north-west by Section No. 8 afore- | regulation hereto annexed, approving of a class-book for
said, 523 links, to the point of commencement: be all the | public schools; and, with the like advice and consent, doth
aforesaid measurements more or less; save and except a | prescribe that this order shall take effect from the date
public road which intersects the area hereinbefore described. | hereof.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Whangaroa County Council under
"The Public Domains Act, 1881."

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day
of May, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twelfth section of "The Public
Domains Act, 1881," it is, inter alia, enacted that
the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time
delegate all or any of the powers by the said Act conferred,
save as is therein mentioned, to any person or persons for
any period, and subject to such stipulations as may be
specified in such order, and that every such delegation may
from time to time in like manner be altered or revoked:
And whereas, pursuant to "The Public Reserves Act, 1881,"
by an Order in Council of even date herewith, the land
described in the Schedule thereto is declared to be brought
under the operation of and to be subject to the provisions of
the said "Public Domains Act, 1881:"

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth,
by this present order, delegate all the powers conferred by
the Act first above mentioned, except the powers under or
conferred by sections five and twelve, to

The WHANGAROA COUNTY COUNCIL,

which shall be known as the Totara (Auckland) Domain
Board (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 third Monday in each month, at three o'clock p.m., at the
   Whangaroa County Council Office, Totara, 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
   twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
   eighty-nine.

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 third
   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 mem-
   bers may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chair-
   man.

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.

Class-book for Public Schools.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day
of May, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT
IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in him by "The Education Act, 1877," the

REGULATION.

THE book entitled "Manual of the Duties of Life, being
Lessons in Conduct, intended for Use in Schools or in
Homes," by George Warren Russell (Auckland: the Star
Office), may be used in any public school as if it had been
described and included in the list of works set forth in the
Order in Council dated the 5th day of July, 1887.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rules under "The Administration Act 1879 Amendment
Act, 1888."

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day
of May, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT
IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the power and authority conferred by sec-
tion sixteen of "The Administration Act 1879 Amend-
ment Act, 1888," His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth by this Order in Council make the rules herein-
after set forth, that is to say,-

RULES.

1. In the construction of these rules, and of the forms men-
   tioned or referred to therein, the following terms and ex-
   pressions in inverted commas shall, if not inconsistent with
   "The Administration Act 1879 Amendment Act, 1888," or
   the context or subject-matter of such rules, have the respec-
   tive meanings hereinafter assigned to them, that is to say,-
   "Administrator" means a person to whom letters of ad-
   ministration with or without a will annexed have
   been granted, and who is acting in the administra-
   tion of the estate:
   "Administration" means the grant of probate or letters
   of administration with or without a will annexed:
   "Affidavit" includes a statutory declaration or affirma-
   tion:
   "Appointee" means a person appointed to administer
   an estate under these rules:
   "Creditor" includes a firm of creditors in partnership:
   "Court" means the Court out of which administration
   has issued:
   "Debtor" means a deceased debtor in respect of whose
   estate administration has been granted:
   "Executor" means an executor who has proved the
   will of his testator, and is acting as his executor in
   the administration of his estate:
   "Judge" means a Judge of the Court:
   "Month" means a calendar month:
   "Official Assignee" means an Official Assignee appointed
   under "The Bankruptcy Act, 1883," and includes.
   an acting Official Assignee and a Deputy Assignee:
   "Schedule" means the Schedule to these rules:
   "The said Act" means "The Administration Act 1879
   Amendment Act, 1888:"
   Words importing the singular number shall include the
   plural, and words importing the masculine gender
   shall include females.

2. The forms set forth in the Schedule shall be used for the
   purposes of the said Act and these rules, with such varia-
   tions or additions as circumstances may in any case require.

3. If a petitioner cannot depose that the truth of all the
   several statements in his petition is within his own know-
   ledge, he must, in his affidavit verifying the same, set forth
   the statements which he can depose to, and file a further
   affidavit by some person or persons who can depose to the
   truth of the remaining statements.

4. Affidavits shall be made, completed, and filed in accord-
   ance with the usual practice of the Court, and any person
   objecting to make affidavit in any case allowed by law shall
   make a statutory declaration or make affirmation in lieu of an
   affidavit.

5. Applications made by an executor, administrator, cre-
   ditor, or other person under the said Act or these rules shall
   be heard and disposed of in chambers in accordance with the
   usual practice of the Court in its ordinary jurisdiction, unless,
   for any reason, the Judge considers such application ought to
   be made in open Court, when he may direct accordingly.