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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 78

Powers delegated to the Highbank 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 sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, 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 Highbank Domain Board, namely,—

William Charles Davis,
Hector Bond,
John Driscoll,
Charles Spray,
Charles William Smith,
Alexander Knox Callaghan, and
John McConnell

(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 Saturday in each month, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at the School, Village of Highbank, 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 Saturday, the twenty-second day of September, 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 third Saturday 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 parcel of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 3198, Block II., Corwar Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Lot 50 of the Highbank Settlement, 1225 links; towards the north-east by a road-line, 773·8 links; towards the south-east by a road-line, 1019·8 links; and towards the south-west by Lots 59 and 58 of said settlement, 856·6 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring that the Whakatane County Council shall exercise the Powers of a Harbour Board in Whakatane Harbour.

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 it is among other things provided by section two hundred and forty-two of “The Counties Act, 1886,” that, in any place where there is no Harbour Board, the Governor, on the request of the Council of any county bordering on any estuary or arm of the sea, may, by Order in Council duly gazetted, declare that such Council shall, from a date to be fixed in such Order, exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within such limits of such estuary or arm aforesaid as the Governor may define for that purpose:

And whereas the Council of the County of Whakatane which borders on the estuary or arm of the sea known as Whakatane Harbour, in the Provincial District of Auckland, has requested that it may be declared that it shall exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within that estuary or arm of the sea:

And whereas it is desirable that such request should be acceded to, and that the limits of such estuary or arm of the sea should be defined as hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that, from and after the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred, the said Council shall exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within the limits of the estuary or arm of the sea hereinafter set forth, and which said estuary or arm of the sea is called Whakatane Harbour.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, His Excellency, with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby define the limits of the said estuary or arm of the sea within which the Council of the County of Whakatane is to exercise the powers aforesaid as follows, that is to say:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District known as Whakatane Harbour, commencing at a point on high-water mark of the south-eastern bank of the Whakatane River due east of the easternmost point of the north-western head at entrance to the Whakatane River, and bounded by a line proceeding thence along high-water mark of the south-eastern bank of the said river (past the Whakatane Township) to the south-western corner of Landing Reserve, Section 238, Block I., Whakatane Survey District; thence by a line bearing due north to high-water mark of the north-western bank of the said river (at Section 29, Block I., Whakatane Survey District); thence along high-water mark of the said bank to its confluence with the Orini River; thence by a line bearing due north across the mouth of the Orini River to high-water mark of the north-western bank of the Whakatane River (at Section 28, Block II., Whakatane Survey District); thence by a line along the said bank to the easternmost point of north-western head at the mouth of the said river; thence across the said mouth by a line bearing due east to the point of commencement, as shown upon plan marked M.D. 2370, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington: boundaries being tinted pink.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Order in Council licensing Messrs. Swain and Lonneker to occupy a Part of Foreshore of Ryan’s Creek, Patterson’s Inlet.

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 by Order in Council dated the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 58, of the sixth day of the same month, His Excellency the Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883,” license George Swain, Frederick William Lonneker, and John Lonneker, of Stewart Island, to use and occupy a part of the foreshore