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on the record plan of the Township of Carlyle. Bounded towards the north-east by the Taranaki Road, 120 links wide, 940 links; and towards the south-east, south-west, and north-west by Block XLV., 602, 940, and 602 links respectively. Also,—

All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 60 acres, more or less, being Block XLV. on the record plan of the Township of Carlyle. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 1 chain wide, 133 and 900 links, by Middlesex Street, 120 links wide, 950 links, by Taranaki Road, 120 links wide, 191 links, by Block XLIV., 940 links, and by Taranaki Road, 836 links; towards the south-east by Block XLIV., 602 links, and by Section No. 73, 2000 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 50 and 51, 3921 links; and towards the north-west by Oxford Street, 120 links wide, 1326 links, by Rutland Street, 120 links wide, 100 links, by Surrey Street, 120 links wide, 620 links, and by Block XLIV., 602 links.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Otatau Domain brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of April, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 in the Southland Land District known as the Otatau Domain, 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.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 63 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 5, Block II., Aparima Hundred. Bounded towards the north by Section 6, Block II., Aparima Hundred; towards the east by a road-reserve 100 links wide along bank of Aparima River; towards the south by a road-line running east and west along north boundary of Block I., Aparima Hundred; and towards the west generally by a railway reserve and by the Otatau River: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Invercargill.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of April, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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, being Section No. 5, Block II., Aparima Hundred, 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 thereof, to

THE OTATAU TOWN BOARD,

which shall be known as the Otatau Domain Board (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 Monday in each month, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at the Town Board Office, Otatau, 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 eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

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 Chairman of the Town Board shall be the Chairman of the Board. He 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. 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.

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of April, 1899.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease only, without agreement or covenant for purchase, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing six hundred acres, more or less, known as Horowhenua No. 9B, and being the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in favour of Nepia Pomare and others.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.