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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Powers delegated to the Hinds Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON 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 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, acting 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 CHAIRMAN, COUNCILLORS, and INHABITANTS of the ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL,

which shall be known as the Hinds Domain Board (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 Friday in each month, at eleven o’clock a.m., at the County Council Office, Ashburton, 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 Friday, the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

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 first Friday 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.

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Hinds Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 Canterbury Land District, and known as the Hinds 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 22 acres 2 roods 7 perches, more or less, being reserve numbered 2281 (in red), formerly part of Reserve 1783 (in red), Block III., on the map of the Hinds Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a road-line, 1500 links; towards the north-east by a road-line, 1503 links; toward the south-east by Section No. 22739, 1500 links; and towards the south-west by the remaining portion of Reserve 1783 (in red), 1502·6 links, south-west of the north-eastern boundary: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Opening Unsurveyed Rural Land in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection.

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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 enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six; 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.”

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WANGANUI AND TAUPO WEST COUNTIES.

Unsurveyed First- and Second-class Land.

ALL that area, situated in Blocks II., III., V., VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII., XIII., XIV., XV., and XVI., Kaitieke Survey District, containing approximately 46,550 acres. Bounded generally towards the north and north-west (commencing at the north-west corner of Retaruke Subdivision No. 1) by the Retaruke River, by the Retaruke Subdivision No. 4, and by Crown lands to a point known as Kaitawa; generally towards the east by Crown lands, by Waimarino Reserve E, and by the Waimarino–Taumaranui Road to near Cussen’s Trig.; generally towards the south by Crown lands, and by Retaruke Subdivision No. 1, to the point of commencement: excepting from within the above boundaries an area of about 1,000 acres, for a township, on the Retaruke and Kaitieke Streams; an area reserved of about 234 acres, situated at the confluence of the Taupapakura Stream with the Retaruke River; and 2,450 acres as reserves for primary education; as also such other reserves as may be required for general purposes.

Cash price, 15s. to 25s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, 9d. to 1s. 3d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 7·2d. to 1s. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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Vesting a Reserve.

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GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section thirty-two of “The Reserves Disposal and Exchange Act, 1895,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby vest Section Seven, Block Five, of the Township of Pohangina, containing an area of one rood, in the following persons, who are hereby approved by me as Trustees of the said land, namely:—

JOSEPH GEORGE BROWNE, Farmer, Ratanui, Pohangina;
ARTHUR ALBERT WAGSTAFF, Farmer, Tawanui, Pohangina;
GEORGE ADSETT, Sawmiller, Pohangina;

to hold and administer the said land as a site for a public hall, as in the said Act mentioned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.