Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1483

open as small-farm allotments for sale or selection either for cash, or on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for sale or selection shall be Wednesday, the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

3. The purchaser for cash of any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto must deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district one-fifth of the purchase-money at the time of application, and shall pay the whole remainder of the purchase-money within thirty days of the granting of his application; and if not paid within thirty days his deposit shall be forfeited, and the lands shall be again open for sale or occupation forthwith; and upon full payment of the purchase-money he will be entitled to a Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way.

4. If any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are selected upon deferred payments, the selector shall be subject to the provisions relating to Part III. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

5. If any of the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto are selected under the perpetual-leasing system, the selector shall be subject to the provisions of Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

6. No person shall be allowed to apply for or select more than one allotment.

7. The prices stated in the Schedule hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for sale for cash, or for selection on deferred payments, or on perpetual lease.

8. If there shall be more than one application on the same day for any allotment, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

9. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district one-twenty-eighth of the price of the allotment (such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the next first day of January or July following the date of the license, as the case may be); and, upon fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by the said Act relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to the Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way. A license-fee of twenty-one shillings will also have to be deposited.

10. Each applicant for any of the allotments on perpetual leasing will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and forty-three of “The Land Act, 1885,” and to deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the allotment included in the application, and such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year’s rent due on the first day of January or July which shall first ensue after the commencement of the term, together with the sum of thirty shillings for the lease and registration thereof.

11. Each applicant for a section for cash will be required to make a statutory declaration that he is applying for the land solely for his own use and benefit, and not for the use and benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.

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SCHEDULE.

CANNINGTON VILLAGE SETTLEMENT, OPAWA SURVEY DISTRICT, WAIMATE AND MACKENZIE COUNTIES.

Description of Land: Lot 1 is very good grazing land; a few acres of flat near the river gives a site for a house and garden; 2 to 11 have been laid out crossing the river, so as to give each a piece of the level and part of the grazing land on the hill side, the level land is light and stony, but is capable of being cultivated, the grazing land though steep is well grassed and capable of feeding a few head of stock; 12, light stony land.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Powers delegated to the Carleton Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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ONSLLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of December, 1890.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, 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 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 Carleton Public Domain Board, namely,——

JOHN O’HALLORAN,
ROBERT BENNETT,
JOHN CROSS,
JOHN DOHRMANN,
WILLIAM MUSSON,
JOHN SKURR, and
HENRY DAVIDSON

(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 Wednesday in each month, at eight o’clock p.m., at Carleton, 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 Wednesday, the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

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 Wednesday 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 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 7 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 2808 (in red), formerly part of Reserve No. 361, situate in Block V., Mairaki Survey District. Bounded northwards by a line parallel to the road north of Section No. 4643, and 1250 links distant therefrom, 1000 links; towards the eastward, southward, and westward by Section No. 15239, 750, 1000, and 750 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.