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 mem-
   bers may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chair-
   man.

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.

Makakahi Island Recreation-ground brought under "The
Public Domains Act, 1881."

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day
of July, 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 con-
sent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby
order and declare that the reserve made for public recrea-
tion in the Land District of Wellington, and known as the
Makakahi Island 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 Wellington Land District,
containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, known
as the Makakahi Island, Block VIII., Mangahao Survey
District. Bounded on all sides by the Mangaitainoka River,
by which it is separated on the south-east from Section
No. 16, same block and survey district: as the same is
delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief
Surveyor, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Pahiatua Borough Council under
"The Public Domains Act, 1881."

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day
of July, 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 PAHIATUA,

which shall be known as the Makakahi Island 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 half-past seven o'clock
   p.m., at the Borough Council Offices, Pahiatua, 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
   twenty-first day of August, 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 mem-
   bers 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.

Validating Application for Renewal of Publican's License.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of July, 1893.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and twenty-seventh
section of "The Licensing Act, 1881" (hereinafter
termed "the Act"), it is provided that, if, through any acci-
dental or unavoidable impediment, misfeasance, or omission,
anything required by the Act to be done is omitted to be
done, or is not done within the time fixed, the Governor in
Council may take all such measures as may be necessary
for removing such impediment or rectifying such mis-
feasance or omission, and may validate anything which may
have been irregularly done in matter of form, so that the
intent and purpose of the Act may have effect:

And whereas the annual licensing meeting of the Licensing
Committee for the Havelock Licensing District, in the Pro-
vincial District of Hawke's Bay, was duly fixed for the first
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three:

And whereas it appears that one William Moroney, at and
previous to the time when notices of application for renewal
of licenses in force within the said Havelock Licensing Dis-
trict should have been made, was the holder of a publican's
license in respect of a house called "The Pakipaki Hotel":

And whereas it appears that the last day on which valid
notice of the said William Moroney's intention to apply for a
renewal of his said license at the annual meeting aforesaid
could have been given was the tenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-three:

And whereas it appears that by an accidental omission on
the part of the said William Moroney notice of his intention
to apply for a renewal of his said license was not given to the
Clerk of the said Havelock Licensing Committee till the
eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
three:

And whereas it appears expedient to rectify the omis-
sion by the said William Moroney to deliver to the Clerk of
the said Committee notice of his intention to apply for a
renewal of his said license within the time required by
the fifty-sixth section of the Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred by the Act and of all other powers enabling him in
this behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and
declare that the said William Moroney's notice of intention
to apply for a renewal of his publican's license for the Paki-
paki Hotel aforesaid shall not be deemed to be, or to have
been, invalid upon the ground that the same was not de-
livered to the Clerk of the said Havelock Licensing Com-
mittee on or before the tenth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-three, and doth hereby rectify the acci-
dental omission by the said William Moroney to deliver the
same to the Clerk of the said Havelock Licensing Com-
mittee within the time required by section fifty-six of the
Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.