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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.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Taranaki Land District, containing 12 acres 1 rood 5⅔ 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.

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

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventh day of June, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL 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-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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 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 under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Patea Public Domain Board, namely,—

Henry Edward Poynter Adams,
Gervase Disney Hamerton,
The Rev. Thomas Godfrey Hammond,
James Kenworthy,
William Rossiter,
Herbert Henry Taylor, and
John Gillman Beamish

(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 third Wednesday in each month, at eleven o’clock a.m., at the Borough Council office, Patea, 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 twentieth day of June, 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 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 third 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. 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, 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 parcels of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 5 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Block XLIV. on the record plan of the Township of Patea. 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 Patea. 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.

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Licensing W. T. Masefield to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Clova Bay, Pelorus Sound.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventh day of June, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered to grant the license hereinafter mentioned under “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), William Taylor Masefield, of Manaroa, settler (hereinafter called “the licensee”), has applied to the Governor in Council for a license under the said Act to occupy a part of the foreshore, and of the land below low-water mark adjacent thereto, in Clova Bay, Pelorus Sound, in order to erect a wharf thereon, and, in accordance with the one-hundred-and-fifty-sixth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” has deposited plans in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington (marked M.D. 2351), showing the area of foreshore and land below low-water mark intended to be occupied, and the manner in which it is proposed to erect the wharf: And whereas the Governor in Council has approved of the purpose for which the said foreshore and land below low-water mark are to be occupied: And whereas it is expedient that a license should be granted and issued to the licensee under the said Act, for the purpose aforesaid, on the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the object for which the said license is required by the licensee as aforesaid; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and with the like advice and consent