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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Saturday in each month, at three o'clock p.m., at the Public Library at Te Awamutu, 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 second day of March, 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 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 ordinary 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.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres 3 roods 36 perches, more or less, being Lot No. 6 and parts of Lots Nos. 7 and 8 of Allotment No. 236 of the Parish of Mangapiko, and being the whole of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. lxxix., folio 40, registered in the District Land Registry Office, Auckland.

All that parcel of land called or known as Lot No. 54A, Parish of Mangapiko, Block XIV., Hamilton Survey District, Auckland Land District, and containing by admeasurement 8 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north by a public road, 858 links; towards the east by Lot No. 54 of the aforesaid parish, 940 links; towards the south by Lot No. 54 aforesaid, 800 links; and towards the west by Ngaroto Lake to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 7 acres 32 perches, more or less, being the south-eastern portion of Section No. 223, Parish of Puniu, in Block III., Puniu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road; towards the south by Section No. 226; and towards the north-west by the other part of the said Section No. 223: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Empowering Native Appellate Court to hear Appeal under Section 62 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section sixty-two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is provided that in any case in which application has been or shall be made to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, under section thirty-nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of any order of the Court determining the succession to the estate of any Native deceased, the Governor, on being certified by the Chief Judge as in the said section is provided, may, by Order in Council, empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with such application as a valid appeal under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894”: And whereas the Chief Judge has, in respect of the application of Moetapapa te Moengaroa Kauika, under section thirty-nine aforesaid, certified as by the said section sixty-two is required: And whereas the said application in all other respects complies with the requirements of the last-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with the said application as an appeal, under the provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” from the order of Court hereinafter specified, that is to say:—

The order of the Court, dated the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred, appointing Huhana Manakore and nine others to succeed to the interest of Ruta Huai Meihana, deceased, in Pakaraka No. 1 Block.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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“The Education Act, 1877.”—Payments to Education Boards.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby make the regulation hereto annexed regarding certain payments of capitation allowance to Education Boards; and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATION.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in an Order in Council made on the 5th day of January, 1888, under the provisions of “The Education Act, 1877,” relating (inter alia) to attendance registers and returns, the payments of capitation allowance to Education Boards for the half-year ending on the 31st day of March, 1901, shall be according to the working-average attendance of the quarters ending on the 30th day of September and on the 31st day of December, 1900, as working average was defined by Order in Council dated the 5th day of July, 1887, and made under the provisions of the before-mentioned Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Licensing Te Puna Road Board to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Tauranga Harbour.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered to grant the license hereinafter mentioned, the Te Puna Road Board (hereinafter called “the Board”) has applied to the Governor in Council for a license under “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), to occupy a part of the foreshore of Tauranga Harbour, in order to erect and maintain thereon a landing-shed; and, in accordance with the one-hundred-and fifty-sixth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” has deposited plans (two sheets) in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington (marked M.D. 2402) showing the place where it is intended to erect such shed, the area of foreshore to be occupied for such purpose, and the manner in which it is proposed to erect the shed: 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; and the said plans have, prior to the making of this Order in Council, been approved by the Governor in Council without modification or addition: And whereas it is expedient that a license under the said Act, for the