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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the second Wednesday 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 Rangitoto Island Domain brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of April, 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 reserves set apart for public recreation in the Land District of Auckland, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same are 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 Rangitoto Island Domain Board, constituted by an Order in Council issued on the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, being Sections Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12, Block IV., Rangitoto Survey District, Rangitoto Island, Auckland Land District, containing 44 acres 2 roods, more or less.

Also all that parcel of land, being Sections Nos. 7 and 8, Block V., of the same district, Rangitoto Island, containing 21 acres 1 rood, more or less.

Also all that parcel of land, being Sections Nos. 4, 5, and 6, Block XI., of the same district, and situated upon the said island, containing 32 acres 3 roods, more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of April, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth, with the like advice and consent, by this present Order, delegate, but only with respect to the pieces or parcels of land described in the Schedule hereto, all the powers conferred by the Act aforesaid, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Alfredton Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN BONSTEAD,
FRANCIS HENRY DUNDERDALE, and
CECIL KEBBELL

(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 third Wednesday in each month, at seven o’clock p.m., at Alfredton, 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 Wednesday, the twentieth day of May, 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 third Wednesday 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 100 acres, more or less, being Section No. 201, Block XII., Mangaone Survey District. Bounded on the north by the Moroa Native Reserve and the abutment of a road, 1269 links; on the east by Section No. 204, 4039 links; on the south by Section No. 79, 760 links, by the abutment of a road, 88 links, and by Section No. 116, 2187 links; on the west by the Ihuraua River, 6050 links, by a line 279 links, and by a public road 667 links; and towards the north-west by the abutment of a public road 101½ links, and by Section No. 202, 2202 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Lands proposed to be taken for a Public Work in the Rangipo North Block.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fourteenth section of “The Reserves Disposal and Exchange Act, 1895” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may take compulsorily, in manner prescribed in “The Public Works Act, 1894,” such of the lands described in the Fifth Schedule of the said Act as from time to time he deems necessary for the purpose of providing accommodation for travellers, and such purpose shall be deemed to be a public work:

And whereas the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto, being the lands described in the Fifth Schedule to the said Act, are, in the opinion of the Governor, required for the purpose of providing accommodation for travellers:

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the said Act, and by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and in pursuance of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose aforesaid; and that the said lands shall vest in Her Majesty as from the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.