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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 Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 200 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 2585, Block XIV., on the map of the Halswell Survey District. Commencing at the westernmost corner of Section No. 2443; thence south-easterly along the south-western boundary of the said Section No. 2443, 1689 links; thence north-easterly at a right angle, 1411·5 links; thence south-easterly, following a road-line along the Little River Railway Reserve, 2922·7 links; thence south-westerly on a bearing of 217° 44′ 30″, 5124·2 links; thence north-westerly at a right angle, 4545·8 links; thence north-easterly at a right angle, 3402·4 links, to the commencing-point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on the map of the Chief Surveyor, deposited in the Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Appointing Days for closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of April, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the local authorities respectively mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto, being duly authorised by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” to appoint by special resolution, in the month of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the days on which the shops in their respective districts are to be closed in accordance with the said Act, have failed so to appoint a day:

Now, therefore, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by section ten of the said Act, does hereby appoint the days set opposite their respective names in the second column of the said Schedule to be the days on which shops shall be closed in the said districts, in accordance with the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

Te Aroha Borough .. .. .. Thursday.

Opotiki Town District .. .. Wednesday.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Thames Borough Council to be subject to the Provisions of ‘The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of April, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time declare that any leasing authority shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act, but that no such Order shall have any effect unless it be issued at the request or upon the recommendation of the leasing authority on whose behalf such Order is issued:

And whereas it has been made to appear that the Thames Borough Council are a leasing authority within the meaning of the said Act, and have requested that they may be brought under the provisions thereof:

Now, therefore, 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that from and after the date hereof the Thames Borough Council shall be subject to the provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Revoking Appointment of Trustees under Section 3 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of April, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor, by Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section three of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” and every other power or authority in any wise enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, did appoint Freeman Rayney Jackson and Frederick Augustus Krull, and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor, to be the trustees and trustee under the said section for Ani Paki, of Moawhango, Inland Patea: And whereas the said Freeman Rayney Jackson and Frederick Augustus Krull are unable to accept the said appointment, and have requested His Excellency to revoke such appointment:

Now, therefore, His Excellency doth hereby revoke the appointment of the said Freeman Rayney Jackson and Frederick Augustus Krull as such trustees and trustee as from the date of such appointment.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Revoking Appointment of Trustees under Section 3 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of April, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor, by Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section three of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” and every other power or authority in anywise enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, did appoint Freeman Rayney Jackson and Frederick Augustus Krull, and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor, to be the trustees and trustee under the said section for Raumaewa te Rango, of Moawhango, Inland Patea, aboriginal native: And whereas the said Freeman Rayney Jackson and Frederick Augustus Krull are unable to accept the said appointment, and have requested His Excellency to revoke such appointment:

Now, therefore, His Excellency doth hereby revoke the appointment of the said Freeman Rayney Jackson and Frederick Augustus Krull as such trustees and trustee as from the date of such appointment.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.