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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

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

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of November, 1891.

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 Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council dated the eighteenth 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 Huirangi Domain Board, namely,—
GEORGE GIBSON ANDREWS,
ROBERT TURNBULL, and
WILLIAM JAMES GEDDES WELLS

(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 first Monday in each month, at two o’clock p.m., at the Huirangi Schoolhouse, 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 seventh day of December, 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 first 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 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 Land District of Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, situate in the Town of Huirangi, being Sections Nos. 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, and 175 on the map of the said town.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Sittings of the District Court at Westport.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District Court of Nelson, for civil and criminal business, shall be held as follows, in addition to those previously fixed and appointed:—
In the Courthouse, Westport: On the 26th November, 1891.
Provided that in case the day so fixed as aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the Court appointed for that day shall be held on the first day thereafter not being a holiday.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

W. P. REEVES.

Trustees for Alford Forest Cemetery appointed.

ONSLOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Regulations under “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” for the Election of Members of Boards by Contributory Local Authorities in Grouped Districts.

ONSLOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1885 Amendment Act, 1886,” it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, shall, before the month of November next ensuing, and at the same period in every third year thereafter, apportion the representation of the various contributory local authorities in any district on the Board of such district, in the manner therein set forth:
And whereas it is necessary that regulations shall be made for the elections of members of the Boards of such districts by such contributory local authorities as are grouped together in terms of the above-mentioned section:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in him by section ninety-nine of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” doth hereby make and prescribe the regulations hereinafter set forth for the conduct of the said recited elections, and the proceedings incidental thereto, namely:—

REGULATIONS.

1. The local authorities named in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall have respectively the number of votes set opposite them in the second column of the said Schedule, and their representative or representatives shall meet at the time and place set opposite the names of such local authorities in the third and fourth columns of the said Schedule respectively to elect such member or members as have been appointed to such local authorities by Order in Council of the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
2. The Presiding Officer to conduct the election in each case shall be the person named in the fifth column of the said Schedule, opposite the name of each local authority. Any local authority may, if it think fit, send only one representative to such election, and such representative shall then be entitled to exercise the full number of votes which such local authority is given by regulation one aforesaid.
3. Any local authority may appoint, by writing under the hand of the Chairman or Mayor, as the case may be, any person or persons residing at or near the place of meeting as aforesaid to be its representative or representatives at such meeting, and such representative or representatives shall be entitled to exercise the full number of votes which such local authority is given by regulation one.