June 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 829

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

3. The rental stated in the First Schedule hereto shall be the price at which the land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act; and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington; and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I, aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration prescribed in Schedule C to the said Act.

6. Each applicant shall also deposit the first half-year's rent, together with the lease and registration fee, as provided in the 63rd section of the said Act.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the first days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year's rent is payable as before provided.

8. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each lease shall be as provided in Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

9. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

10. No lessee shall hold more than four allotments, including that already held, and all such allotments shall be held for his sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

11. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected; and the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land proposed to be taken for Construction of Beacons and Leading-lights near Gisborne.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of April, 1893.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. P. REEVES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work authorised to be constructed by the Government, to wit, the construction of beacons on which leading-lights for the Port of Gisborne are to be erected:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and the thirteenth section of "The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887," and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the public work above mentioned shall be constructed on the land described in general terms in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

BEACON-SITE AT POVERTY BAY.

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, situated in Block VII., Turanganui Survey District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 1 perch, more or less, being a strip of land 50 links wide, the centre-line of which commences at a point in Wai-o-hi-harore No. 1 Block distant 9691 links north and 5541 links west of Trig. Station No. 108 (Kaiti); and proceeds on a bearing of S. 19° 6' 35" E., over two beacon-pegs, to the high-water mark of Poverty Bay, the above strip of land being intersected by a public road 1 chain wide: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 18212, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Part of Pukerimu Road, in Kivitea Road District, to be a District Road.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of May, 1893.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the road known as the Pukerimu Road, described in the Schedule below, and which was made by the Governor under the powers contained in the said Act, and has hitherto been a Government road, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a district road.

SCHEDULE.

Description of portion of the Pukerimu Road, lying north of the Pemberton Small-farm Block, and running through the Otamakapua-Mangawharariki Block, to be handed over to the Kivitea Road Board, situated in Kivitea Road Board District, County of Rangitikei, in length 1 mile 48 chains: All that piece of land, not less than a chain wide, containing 12 acres 3 roods 13 perches, or thereabouts, commencing at a peg marked xliv., near the northern boundary of the Pemberton Small Block, 42200·2 links south and 33187·9 links east of Initial Trig. Station, Kawhatau, proceeding generally in a north and westerly direction 128 chains to peg marked xxi., 33240·6 links south and 28843·2 links east of Initial Trig. Station, Kawhatau, Hautapu Survey District, Block XVI.; as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 7995, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon marked in red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of May, 1893.

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 December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, 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 Cust Domain Board, namely,—

JAMES COBOURG TIPPING,
THOMAS O'FARRELL,
STEPHEN EARLY,
WILLIAM CROMIE,
DAVID THOMAS McCULLOUGH,
JAMES McKIE, and
WILLIAM THOMPSON

(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 first Monday in each month, at four o'clock p.m., at the Cust Road Board Office, 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 third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days'