1694
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

Reserve in Mangahao Survey District, Wellington, brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, 1900.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, 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, do hereby order and declare that the reserve in the Wellington Land District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 23 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 21 and 22, Block XVI., Mangahao Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 41; towards the south-east by Section No. 16 and the Mangaone Valley Road; towards the west by Mangaone River; and towards the north-west by Section No. 41: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, 1900.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto, situate in the Wellington Land District, are 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 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 Tane Domain Board, namely,—

HARRY EDWARD VENNER CRAWFORD, of Tane, sheep-farmer;
HARRY ARUNDEL LAMBERT, of Tane, sheep-farmer;
THOMAS MIDLAND KINGDON, of Tane, sheep-farmer;
ROBERT RICHMOND SECUNDUS SUISTED, of Tane, sheep-farmer;
THOMAS HODGINS, of Tane, sheep-farmer;
MICHAEL JOSEPH HODGINS, of Tane, sheep-farmer

(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 half-past seven o’clock p.m. at the Schoolhouse, Tane, 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 fifth 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 parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 23 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 21 and 22, Block XVI., Mangahao Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 41; towards the south-east by Section No. 16 and the Mangaone Valley Road; towards the west by the Mangaone River; and towards the north-west by Section No. 41: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorising Construction of Harbour-works, Auckland Harbour.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, 1900.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is provided by the fourth section of “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), that whenever any Harbour Board is desirous of executing or constructing any harbour-works upon lands vested in such Board, or upon lands of the Crown of such a nature that the same could, under “The Harbours Act, 1878,” only be carried out and executed under the authority of a special Act, the Board may apply to the Governor in Council for a special Order, and, if the Governor in Council thinks fit, such Order may be made and granted:

And whereas the Auckland Harbour Board (hereinafter called “the Board”) is desirous of executing or constructing a certain rubble embankment in Auckland Harbour upon lands vested in the Board, and the said work is of such a nature as aforesaid, and the Board has applied to the Governor in Council for the issue of a special Order:

And whereas the conditions precedent to the granting of a special Order prescribed by the said Act have been duly performed and observed, and it appears expedient that such Order should be made:

And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the proposed work will not be or tend to the injury of navigation:

Now, therefore, 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 acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise and empower the Board to execute or construct a rubble embankment in Auckland Harbour, as shown on plan marked M.D. 2356, such embankment to be carried out and constructed in accordance with plan and specifications marked M.D. 2356, and subject to the provisions of the said Act. And it is hereby ordered and declared that the said work shall be completed on or before the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.