Sept. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1667

Dated , 19 . Master.

5. The master shall make suitable arrangements to the satisfaction of the officer for enabling the officer to inspect and examine each passenger and each seaman, and shall also provide writing materials to enable any person to write the prescribed application who may be required to do so by the officer.

6. The officer may put such reasonable question as he deems necessary to any passenger or seaman to ascertain whether or not he comes within the restrictions of the Act.

7. The Health Officer shall inform the officer as to any person on the vessel who comes within the restrictions of subsection (2) or (3) of section 3 of the Act.

8. Any sum of £100 deposited with the officer in terms of subsection (1) of section 4 of the Act shall be banked to the credit of the Deposit Account of the Collector of Customs.

9. At ports where the Collector of Customs and a subordinate officer are appointed officers under the Act, the latter officer shall act under the direction and control of the Collector, to whom complaint can be made by any person aggrieved on account of any action of the subordinate officer.

10. If any person fails, refuses, or neglects to do anything required by these regulations, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50.

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

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Road in Waikohu Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of August, 1900.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a road through part of Okahuatiu 1a Block, Waikohu Survey District:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land by the Ngatapa Road Board, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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 declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said road, and the said land shall vest in the Ngatapa Road Board, as from the eighteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above noted, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of August, 1900.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-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 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 Maheno Domain Board, namely,—

ROBERT THOMPSON,
THOMAS LINDSAY,
JOHN RANKIN,
ALFRED REECE, and
JOHN NEWLANDS

(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 Friday in each month, at three o’clock p.m., at the Public Hall, Maheno, 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 Friday, the eighth day of October, 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 first Friday in February 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 parcel of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 47 acres 3 roods 19 perches, more or less, being part of Section 2 of 22, Block VII., Oamaru Survey District, a road-line and a shingle-bank. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 20 of said Block VII.; towards the east by the Kakanui River; generally towards the south-east by the boundary-lines of a railway reserve, 1039 links, 1383 links, 75 links, 1883 links, and 1391 links, to the Island Stream; towards the south-west by that stream; and towards the west by Section No. 1 of 22 of said Block VII.: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.