Declaring that Raglan County Council shall exercise the Powers of a Harbour Board in Whaingaroa Harbour.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of January, 1894.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is among other things provided by section 242 of "The Counties Act, 1886," that, in any place where there is no Harbour Board, the Governor, on the request of the Council of any county bordering on any estuary or arm of the sea, may, by Order in Council duly gazetted, declare that such Council shall, from a date to be fixed in such Order, exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within such limits of such estuary or arm aforesaid as the Governor may define for that purpose:

And whereas the Council of the County of Raglan, which borders on the estuary or arm of the sea known as Whaingaroa Harbour, in the Provincial District of Auckland, has requested that it may be declared that it shall exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within that estuary or arm of the sea:

And whereas it is desirable that such request should be acceded to, and that the limits of such estuary or arm of the sea should be defined as hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that, from and after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the said Council shall exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within the limits of the estuary or arm of the sea hereinafter set forth, and which said estuary or arm of the sea is called Whaingaroa Harbour.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority His Excellency, with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby define the limits of the said estuary or arm of the sea within which the Council of the County of Raglan is to exercise the powers aforesaid as follows, that is to say:

All that area in Raglan County bounded by a line commencing at the southern extremity of Rangitoto Point, at the line of ordinary high-water mark, and proceeding thence north-easterly generally along the line of high-water mark in Whaingaroa Harbour, as far as the northern extremity of Te Kerikeri Inlet; thence in a generally southerly direction, following the high-water mark, to the Uru Landing on the Waitetuna River; thence generally westerly along the ordinary high-water mark of the Whaingaroa Harbour as far as a point where the boundary-line between Te Kopua Reserve and Section 15, Block I., Karioi (Pilot Station Reserve), intersects the line of high-water mark, and thence along a straight line to the starting-point at Rangitoto Point: the hereinbefore-mentioned line of high-water mark shall be deemed to cross the mouths of any rivers and streams that may flow into the Whaingaroa Harbour and inlets: as the same is delineated on the plan signed by the Governor, marked M.D. 1915, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS.

Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of January, 1894.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING 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 the eleventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, 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, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Hororata Domain Board, namely,

Hon. Sir JOHN HALL,

JOHN EDWIN FOUNTAINE,

JAMES THWAITES,

THOMAS BROWNLIE, and

EDWARD BEALEY

(herein 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 seven o'clock p.m., at Hororata, 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 fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

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.

Land in Canterbury withdrawn from Sale as Village-homestead Allotments.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the section of land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be and is hereby withdrawn from sale as a village-homestead allotment.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.-SELWYN COUNTY.-SELWYN SURVEY DISTRICT.

Reserve 288.

Lot 4, Block XIII.; area, 12 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.

Trustee for Waimangaroa Cemetery appointed.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of "The Cemeteries Act, 1882," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

THOMAS MULLIGAN

to be a Trustee, in the place of William Riding, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waimangaroa Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons appointed