Number 57.

1021

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1892.

Little River Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of July, 1892.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made by the Superintendent of Canterbury on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, for a metal reserve, and changed on the twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, to a reserve for public recreation, and known as the Little River Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881;” and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 62 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Reserve No. 1649, Block XIII., Pigeon Bay Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Reserve No. 935; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 19397 and 31132; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 31132 and 30378; towards the north-west, again towards the south-west, and again towards the south-east by Section No. 20137; again towards the south-west by a public road; and again towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 1, 35, and 9.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of July, 1892.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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, situate in the Land District of Canterbury, near Little River, and containing two hundred acres, more or less, 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 Governor, 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 thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Little River Domain Board, namely,—

WILLIAM COOP,
HUGH DUNCANSON BUCHANAN,
HENRY WHITE,
W. H. MONTGOMERY, and
WILLIAM BIRDLING, Junior

(hereinafter 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 fourth Saturday in each month, at seven o’clock p.m., at the Library, Little River, 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 Saturday, the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

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 Saturday 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.