1040 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 59

Powers delegated to the East Gore (Gordon) Domain Board under "The Public Domains Act, 1881."

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second
day of October, 1889.

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 Zea-
land, by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in
Council, dated the fifteenth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-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 East Gore (Gordon) Public Domain
Board, namely,—

EBENEZER MCGIBBON,
ALEXANDER BROWN,
JOHN MCGIBBON, Junior,
JOHN MCCAW,
FREDERICK WALLIS,
ROBERT DUNLOP,
ANDREW MARTIN, and
The CHAIRMAN of the GORDON TOWN BOARD (ex officio)
(herein referred to as "the Board "), subject to the stipula-
tions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on
   the first Monday in each month, at eight o'clock p.m., at the
   Provincial Hotel, East Gore, 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 fourth day of Novem-
   ber, 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 first
   Monday in February 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement 50 acres, more or less, situate
in the Town of East Gore, and being Block XIX. Bounded
towards the north-east and south by the Waikaka River;
and towards the north-west by the Railway Reserve: as the
same is delineated on the plans deposited in the Provincial
District Survey Office, Dunedin.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Lincoln Domain Board under
"The Public Domains Act, 1881."

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER 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 twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-five, 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 piece or parcel of land described in the Sche-
dule 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 Lincoln Public Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN GEORGE MURRAY,
WILLIAM BIRDLING,
HUGH DEANS BUCHANAN,
REGINALD ROBERT BRADLEY, and
WILLIAM COOP
(herein referred to as "the Board "), subject to the stipula-
tions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on
   the fourth Thursday in each month, at four o'clock p.m., at
   Lincoln, 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 twenty-fourth day of October, 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 fourth
   Thursday 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situate in the Halswell Survey Dis-
trict, Provincial District of Canterbury, containing 200 acres,
bounded on the north-east by a line parallel to and about
4 chains distance from the railway-line; on the north-west
by Section No. 2443; on the north-east by Section No. 2443;
on the north-west by a line beginning from a point on the
south-west boundary of Section No. 2443 and about 12 chains
from the south-west corner of that section, and running at
right angles for a distance of about 40 chains; thence in a
south-easterly direction for about 45 chains; and on the
south-east by a line parallel to the north-west boundary: to
take in the required area.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of Reserves in Hawke's Bay and
Marlborough.

ONSLOW, Governor.

WHEREAS the provisions and the requirements of the
fifth section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881,"
have been duly complied with in respect of the land described
in the first column of the Schedule hereto: And whereas
notices in the Gazette have been duly published for four con-
secutive weeks, and laid before both Houses of the Assembly,
as provided by the ninth section of the said Act: And
whereas no resolution of either House of Assembly has been
passed that such House does not concur in the intention
declared in any such notices:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the
fifth section of the Act aforesaid, do hereby change the
purpose of the lands described in the first column of the
Schedule hereto to be that named in the second column
of the said Schedule.