Feb. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 365

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of February, 1900.

Present:
THE RIGHT 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 hereto, situate in the Taranaki Land District, 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 hereby, and in respect of the land hereinafter mentioned, delegate all the powers conferred by the Act first above mentioned, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, for the period of ten years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), to the undermentioned persons, who shall be known as the Taumata Domain Board, namely,–

Charles Anderson Wilkinson, of Eltham, Storekeeper;
George Washington Tayler, of Eltham, Store-manager;
William Lloyd, of Eltham, Builder and Contractor;
Arthur Samuel Chapman, of Eltham, Store-manager;
James Boddie, of Eltham, Farmer;
Thomas Runciman, of Eltham, Sawmiller;
William Allison, of Eltham, Commission Agent;
George Alfred Harrison, of Eltham, Medical Practitioner;
Edwin Parrott, of Eltham, Storekeeper; and
James William Middleton, of Eltham, Barrister and Solicitor

(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 second Monday in each month, at nine o’clock p.m., at the Town Hall, Eltham, 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 twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

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 members of the 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 Monday 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. The Board shall prepare and submit at each annual meeting a report of the proceedings for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of December, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

B

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Taranaki Land District, containing 12 acres 1 rood 5 3/10 perches, being Subdivision No. 1, part of Section No. 12, Block X., Ngaiere Survey District; also part of Allotment No. 6, part of Section No. 75, of Block X., Ngaiere Survey District; and also all those parcels of land delineated and marked as “street” in Plan No. 1360, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, Taranaki, being parts of the said Sections Nos. 12 and 75, and being all the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. xxxviii., folio 169, Taranaki.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of February, 1900.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise 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 twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth hereby, with the like advice and consent, and in respect of the land hereinafter mentioned, delegate all the powers conferred by the said Act, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, for the period of ten years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), to

THE TEMUKA BOROUGH COUNCIL,

which shall be known as the Arowhenua 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 Wednesday in each month, at the Borough Council Office, Temuka, 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 seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

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 members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The Mayor shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

5. The Board shall prepare and submit at each annual meeting a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of December, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

6. 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.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcels of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those parcels of land in the Town of Arowhenua, Canterbury Land District, being Reserve No. 3003, 2 roods 23 perches; Reserve No. 3004, 2 acres 2 roods 24 perches; Reserve No. 3005, 3 roods 22 perches; Reserve No. 3006, 1 rood 32 perches; Reserve No. 3007, 2 roods 7 perches; Reserve No. 3008, 1 acre and 26 perches; Reserve No. 3009, 3 roods 8 perches; Reserve No. 3010, 1 acre 2 roods; Reserve No. 3011, 1 rood 20 perches; Reserve No. 3012, 1 acre; Reserve No. 3013, 20 perches; and Reserve No. 3412, 3 roods 4 perches: as the same are delineated on the record-map in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.