7. In case the company shall—
   (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
   (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said booms for a period of thirty days;
   (3.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of these conditions; or
   (4.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved,
   then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the company or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the company, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred, have been revoked and determined; and upon such revocation the Minister may cause the said booms, and all other erections or buildings thereto belonging, to be removed, and may recover the cost incurred by any such removal from the company.

8. The erection of the booms shall be deemed to be an acceptance by the company of the conditions of this Order in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of May, 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 sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, 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 piece or parcel 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 Mangatainoka Domain Board, namely,—

JOSEPH POLGLASE,
ROBERT CADE,
CHARLES EDWARD BEETHAM,
GERALD EUGENE MACLOSKEY, and
THOMAS DRAY

(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 second Wednesday in each month, at seven o'clock p.m., at Mangatainoka, 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 eighth day of July, 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 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.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 21 acres 3 roods 5 perches, more or less, being Section No. 79, Block XVIII., Mangahao Survey District, in the Wellington Land District. Bounded towards the north-east by Sections Nos. 82 and 78, 1884 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 1100 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 84 and 80, 2077 links; and towards the north-west by a public road along the proper right bank of the Mangatainoka River, 1117 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending the Close Season for Seals.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of June, 1896.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. J. CADMAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations (which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein) for prescribing, among other things, a close season for seals, and for extending any close season so prescribed:

And whereas it is further provided by the said Act that every person who, during any close season for seals, takes any seals is liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty, not exceeding twenty pounds, in respect of every seal so taken:

And whereas by Order in Council, dated the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the months of January, February, March, April, May, and June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, were prescribed a close season for seals:

And whereas by Order in Council, dated the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, the said close season for seals was extended up to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six:

And whereas it is desirable to further extend such close season for seals:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth order that such regulations shall have force and effect throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the colony, and on all shores of such waters or any part thereof.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. The close season for seals prescribed by regulations made by Order in Council dated the 21st day of December, 1894, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 1; of the 4th day of January, 1895, and which was by Order in Council dated the 25th day of June, 1895, extended up to the 30th day of June, 1896, is hereby further extended up to the 30th day of June, 1897.

2. Every person who, during the close season prescribed as aforesaid, takes any seals is liable to a penalty of not less than £25 nor more than £500, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £20 in respect of every seal so taken. The taking of seals means and includes the killing, catching, dredging for, raising, or hunting of any seal, or any attempt so to do.

3. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, consign for sale, buy for sale, or have in possession any seal, or any skins, oil, or blubber from any seal, in any manner in contravention of the said Act or of these regulations; and every person so doing is liable for every such offence to a penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £20.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.