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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 13 acres and 12 perches, more or less, being Section No. 12, Pongaroa Township. Bounded towards the north-east by a street, 100 links wide; towards the south-east by Section No. 13; towards the south-west by a road reserve along the Pongaroa River; and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 11 and 2: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1901.

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 land described in the Schedule hereto, situate in the Wellington 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 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 Pongaroa Domain Board, namely,—

JOSEPH HENRY BERRY, of Pongaroa, Farmer;
TIMOTHY O’BRIEN, of Pongaroa, Farmer;
CHARLES REDDEN BURLING, of Pongaroa, Sheep-farmer;
FREDERICK FRANCIS TUCKER, of Pongaroa, Storekeeper; and
HARRY ROBERT SMITH, of Pongaroa, 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 once a month, on the Tuesday preceding full moon, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at the Schoolhouse, Pongaroa, 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 Tuesday, the fourth day of June, 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 second Tuesday 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.

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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 13 acres 12 perches, more or less, being Section No. 12, Pongaroa Township. Bounded towards the north-east by a street, 100 links wide; towards the south-east by Section No. 13; towards the south-west by road reserve along the Pongaroa River; and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 11 and 2: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

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 House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 a kauri-gum reserve 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.

BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY.

MANGAPURERUA Kauri-gum Reserve Extension: 4,640 acres. For Pungaere and Kerikeri Settlements.

Mangapururua Kauri-gum Reserve Extension.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks XV. and XVI., Kaeo Survey District, containing by admeasurement 4,640 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north generally by a right line from the northernmost angle of land granted to J. Shepherd (No. 15, O.L.C.), to Manganingina Trig. Station; thence by the southern boundary of a block of unadjudicated Native land, containing 104 acres, and by that boundary produced in an easterly direction to the western boundary of land granted to J. Shepherd (No. 28, O.L.C.), by said land, by land granted to J. Shepherd (No. 15, O.L.C.), again by No. 28, O.L.C., by the Tarataroturua or Kerikeri River, and by land granted to S. Y. Clarke (No. 60, O.L.C.): towards the south-east generally by the Mangapururua Kauri-gum Reserve, proclaimed in Gazette of the 12th April, 1900, and by land granted to J. G. Orsmond, G. B. Orsmond, M. Orsmond, H. Anderton, and A. Littlejohn (No. 15, O.L.C.): towards the south by Blocks IV. and III., Omapere Survey District: and towards the west generally by land granted to C. Jollie and J. Shepherd (No. 15, O.L.C.), to the point of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warden’s Court and Officers, Marlborough Mining District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of May,