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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 December 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Hawkins Survey District, Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being part of Reserve No. 1751 (in red), bounded north-east by the continuation of Creyke Street, in the Horndon Township, 692 links; south-east by Maxwell Street, 1050 links; south-west by the continuation of Railway Terrace North, 1212·8 links; and north-west by a line at right angles to south-west boundary, 1050 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: and numbered 2635 (in red) on the official map in the Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Validating Valuation-list prepared for the Borough of Foxton.

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GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1894.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Rating Act, 1876,” it is enacted that, if the local body or the Assessment Court fails through misadventure or accident to do anything which by that Act is required to be done in a fixed time, the Governor may, by an Order in Council, published in the Government Gazette, and publicly notified, extend the time for doing such thing, and may by any such Order validate anything which may have been irregularly done in matter of form, so that the intent and purpose of the said Act may have effect:

And whereas the Council of the Borough of Foxton, being the local body of the Borough of Foxton, inadvertently caused the valuation-list of the said borough to lie open for inspection from the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, to the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, instead of from the fifteenth day of January to the fifteenth day of February in the same year, as required by the twelfth section of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby declare that the valuation-list left open for inspection as aforesaid shall be deemed to be valid, notwithstanding the delay in notifying that the said list was open for inspection.

ALEX. WILLIS.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Sluggish River Land Drainage District extended.

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GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1894.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” a majority of the ratepayers in the area described in the First Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Manawatu, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the land comprised in the said area be added to the Sluggish River Drainage District as constituted under the provisions of the said Act: Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the area of land described in the said petition, and in the First Schedule hereto, shall be added to the said Sluggish River Land Drainage District, and that the boundaries of the said land-drainage district, with such addition as herein provided for, shall be those described in the Second Schedule hereto.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that area, situate in the Te Kawau Survey District, County of Manawatu, containing by admeasurement 6,350 acres or thereabouts, commencing at the north-eastern corner of Section 69, Block XI., and bounded on the north by the road-line forming the northern boundary of that section as far as the north-western corner of Section 139, Block V.; on the west by the road-line fronting Sections 139 to 157, Block VI.; and on the south by the road-line forming the southern boundary of Sections 157 to 149 and 148, Block VI., and Sections 74 to 70, Block XI., together with Sections 320 and 337, Block XV., and 319 in the same block.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, situated in Te Kawau Survey District, County of Manawatu, bounded towards the north by Section 123, Block VI., Sections 122 and 121, Block VII., and Subdivisions 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 34, and 30, Oroua Downs Estate, and the southern boundary-line of the last-mentioned subdivision produced to the middle of the Oroua River; towards the east generally by a line along the middle of the Oroua River; towards the south by the Foxton-New Plymouth Railway Reserve; towards the west by original Section 316, Block XIV.; again towards the north by original Section 314, Block X., and original Sections 317 and 318, Block XI.; again towards the west by original Section 318 aforesaid; again towards the south by the road forming the northern boundaries of original Sections 318 and 317, Block XI., and of original sections 314 and 313, Block X.; and again towards the west by the Carnarvon-Sanson Tramway Reserve.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

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GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of April, 1894.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor in Council by Atanatiu te Puni and others, being a majority in number of the Native owners of the land described in the second column of the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Crown grant bearing date the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, described in the first column of the said Schedule, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has reported that the provisions of the law in that behalf have been complied with: And whereas it appears expedient to grant such application:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by “The Native Land Act, 1888,” and acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said Crown grant on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

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SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.