Nov. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2149

And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold two allotments in the said Rakaunui Village Settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby amend the Order in Council aforesaid so far as it affects the areas in which the land in the Rakaunui Village Settlement shall be held, and doth declare that on and after the date hereof any settler may apply for and acquire two allotments in the said village settlement. And it is hereby further declared that all the provisions of the Order in Council of the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, aforesaid, shall apply, except as regards the number of allotments which may be held, to the Rakaunui Village Settlement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of November, 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 reserve 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 area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto as a kauri-gum reserve, with the name set over the description of such reserve in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

MANGONUI COUNTY.

Awanui Kauri-gum Reserve.—690 Acres.—For Awanui and Kaitaia Settlements.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District situate in Blocks I. and II., Takahue Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 690 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by Sections Nos. 11, 10, and 6 of the Parish of Awanui, by a public road, and by Section No. 17 of the same parish; towards the south-east by the Oturu Block and by land granted to the Church Mission Society (O.L.C. No. 242); and towards the west generally by Section No. 23 of the Parish of Awanui aforesaid, by land granted to W. G. Puckey (O.L.C. No. 214), and by land granted to J. Matthews (O.L.C. No. 193) to the point of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of November, 1900.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 land described in the Schedule hereto, situate in the Auckland Land District, is 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 Act first above mentioned, except the powers under or 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 OHINEMURI COUNTY COUNCIL,

which shall be known as the Mackytown Domain Board, (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 Thursday in each month, at two o’clock p.m., at the Council Chambers, Paeroa, 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 Thursday, the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one.

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 Chairman of the County Council shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

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. 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 Auckland Land District, situated in Block XIII., Ohinemuri Survey District, and in Ohinemuri County, being Section No. 1 of Block VII. of the Township of Mackytown, containing by admeasurement 11 acres 3 roods 30 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the termination of a road and Section No. 15, Block XIII., Ohinemuri Survey District, 453 and 441 links; towards the south-east and east by a public road, 1054 and 357 links; towards the south by Section No. 2 of Block VII. of the Township of Mackytown (school reserve), 665 links; and towards the west by the Ohinemuri River: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Auckland.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of November, 1900.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON 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 fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred, 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 Mangatainoka Domain Board, namely,—