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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 third 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 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. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any quarterly 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 12 acres 1 rood 24 perches, more or less, being Section No. 64, Block XIV., Mangaone Survey District. Bounded on the north by Sections Nos. 62 and 63, 1703 links; on the east by a public road, 950 links; on the south and west by the Kopuaranga River, 5650 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.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Setting apart Reserves under “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of April, 1900.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council is authorised under the said Act to set apart any specified area of Crown lands within a kauri-gum district to be kauri-gum reserves under the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to create and set apart the kauri-gum reserves hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby set apart the several areas of Crown lands respectively described in the Schedule hereto as kauri-gum reserves, with the names respectively set over the description of such reserves in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.

Maungapurua Kauri-gum Reserve.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks XVI., Kaeo, and X., Kerikeri, Survey Districts, and containing by admeasurement 1,650 acres, more or less. Bounded on the north generally—commencing at the most southerly point of Section 13, being a subdivision of Old Land Claim No. 60—by portion of the southern boundary of that section, by the southern boundaries of Sections 14, 15, and 3, and by part of the western boundary of 4, all subdivisions of old land claim aforesaid; thence towards the east and partly towards the south by the Maungapurua Stream to the north-eastern boundary of Section 1, being a

subdivision of Old Land Claim No. 15, and by that boundary to the Maungapurua Stream aforesaid; and thence towards the west by a right line to the point of commencement.

Puheke Kauri-gum Reserve Extension.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Block III., Rangaunu Survey District, containing by admeasurement 3,510 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Block IV., Karakara Survey District, and Section No. 1 of Block III., Rangaunu Survey District; towards the east by Doubtless Bay; towards the south by the Puheke Kauri-gum Reserve, proclaimed in Gazette of the 13th April, 1899; and towards the west by Block II., Rangaunu Survey District, to the point of commencement.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to Land being taken for a Road through Part of Motukawa 2a No. 4 Block.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of April, 1900.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, in section fourteen thereof, inter alia, enacted that there shall not be taken any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard, or vineyard, or in bona fide occupation as an ornamental park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of the Governor in Council:

And whereas the consent of the Governor in Council is required to the taking of land for a road across the Moawhanga River, through land being part of Motukawa 2a No. 4 Block, which is occupied by a garden:

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, doth hereby consent to the portion of land in Motukawa 2a No. 4 Block being taken for the purpose of the said road. As the said road-line is shown upon the sketch-plan marked S.G. 28689, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring a Road in the Moa Road District to be a Government Road.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of April, 1900.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and two of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anyway enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Right Honourable 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, doth hereby order that the road in the Moa Road District described in the Schedule below shall, on and after the date above mentioned, be a Government road.

SCHEDULE.

THAT portion of the road known as Junction Road, including all the bridges on the same, which commences at Durham Road, and proceeds in a generally easterly direction to Tarata Bridge, over the Waitara River; as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 12673, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.