JUNE 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 937

Powers delegated to the Corporation of Winton under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of June, 1893.

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 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 MAYOR, COUNCILLORS, AND BURGESSES OF THE BOROUGH OF WINTON,

who shall be known as the Winton Town Belt Domain Board (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 third Monday in each month, at three o’clock p.m., at the Town Council Office, Winton, 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 seventeenth 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’ 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 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Addition to the Manaiā Domain brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of June, 1893.

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 for public recreation in the Land District of Taranaki, and known as the Manaiā 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, by the Domain Board, constituted by an Order in Council issued on the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, Block XXVII., Town of Manaiā. Bounded on the north by Kapuni Street, 560 links; on the east by Rangouri Street, 448 links; on the south by Kauae Street, 560 links; and on the west by Sections Nos. 17 and 6, 448 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, New Plymouth.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, 14, Block XXVIII., Town of Manaiā. Bounded on the north by Kapuni Street, 336 links; on the east by Sections Nos. 4 and 15, 448 links; on the south by Kauae Street, 336 links; and on the west by Rangouri Street, 448 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, New Plymouth.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

RAGLAN COUNTY.—UNSURVEYED SECOND-CLASS LAND.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Pirongia, and containing approximately 1,650 acres. Bounded towards the north by Sections 274, 275, 276, 277, and 278 of the Parish of Pirongia; towards the east generally by Sections 310 and 311 of the same parish and by a stream; towards the south generally by a public road; and towards the west generally by a public road, by Sections 304 and 304A of the Parish of Pirongia aforesaid, by a public road, by Sections 303 and 302 of the same parish, and by a stream to the point of commencement.

All broken forest land of fair quality, situated about ten to twelve miles from Whatawhata and three miles from Harapepe.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in the Parish of Pirongia, and containing approximately 1,750 acres. Bounded towards the north generally by a stream and by a public road; towards the south-east by the Kaniwhaniwha Stream, by a public road, and by a right line being the production in a south-easterly direction of the north-western boundary of Section 297 of the Parish of Pirongia to the confiscation boundary-line; and towards the south-west by the said confiscation boundary-line and the Waitetuna River to the point of commencement.

Broken forest land, situated at head of Waitetuna River and about fourteen miles from Whatawhata, and adjoining the University endowment.

Cash price, 7s. 6d. an acre; occupation with right of purchase, 4·5d. an acre; lease in perpetuity, 3·6d. an acre.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.