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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting,
   and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the first
   Saturday 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, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

All those parcels of land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District,
containing 8 acres 1 rood 16 perches, more or less, being
sections numbered 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 102, 103, 104,
105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, and 113, in the
Town of Patutahi.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Licensing the Westland County Council to use and occupy a
Part of the Foreshore of the Okuru River as a Site for a
Wharf.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of July, 1901.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered
to grant the license hereinafter mentioned under
“ The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883 ” (hereinafter
called “ the said Act ”), the Westland County Council
(hereinafter called “ the Council ”) has applied to the Go-
vernor in Council for a license under the said Act to occupy
a part of the foreshore, and land below low-water mark
adjacent thereto, of Okuru River, in order to erect a wharf
thereon, and, in accordance with the one-hundred-and-fifty-
sixth section of “ The Harbours Act, 1878,” has deposited a
plan and specification in the office of the Marine Depart-
ment at Wellington (marked M.D. 2426) showing the area
of foreshore and land below low-water mark intended to be
occupied, and the manner in which it is proposed to erect
the wharf : And whereas the Governor in Council has ap-
proved of the purpose for which the said foreshore and land
below low-water mark is to be occupied : And whereas it is
expedient that a license should be granted and issued to the
Council under the said Act for the purpose aforesaid, on the
terms and conditions hereinafter expressed :

Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 of
all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the
object for which the said license is required by the Council
as aforesaid ; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the
said power and authority, and with the like advice and
consent as aforesaid, doth hereby license and permit the
Council to use and occupy that part of the foreshore, and
land below low-water mark adjacent thereto, on which the
wharf is to be erected, as shown on the plan and described
in the specification so deposited as aforesaid, for the pur-
pose of erecting and maintaining the said wharf thereon,
such license to be held and enjoyed by the Council upon
and subject to the following terms and conditions, that is
to say :—

1. In these conditions the term “ Minister ” means the
   Minister having charge of the Marine Department, as
   defined by “ The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” and
   includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under
   the direction of such Minister.

2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order
   in Council shall extend and apply only to the part of the
   foreshore, and land below low-water mark adjacent thereto,
   necessary for the erection of the wharf, as shown on plan
   marked M.D. 2426.

3. All persons shall at all reasonable times, upon payment
   of the proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the said
   wharf, and all rights of ingress and egress thereon and
   therefrom.

4. His Majesty, or the Governor, and all officers in the
   Government service acting in the execution of their duty,
   shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into,
   through, and out of the said wharf without payment.

5. The Council shall maintain the above-mentioned
   wharf in good order and repair, and shall at all times
   exhibit therefrom and maintain at its own cost suitable and
   necessary lights for the guidance of vessels : Provided that
   no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved
   of by the Minister.

6. Any person authorised by the Minister may at all
   reasonable times enter upon the said wharf and view the
   state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at
   or posting to the last known address of the Council a notice
   in writing of any defect or want of repair in such wharf,
   requiring the Council within a reasonable time, to be
   therein prescribed, to repair the same, the Council shall
   with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed
   or such repairs to be made.

7. The ballast of all vessels loading at the wharf shall be
   taken away by the Council, and deposited above high-water
   mark in such places that it will not be likely to fall into
   or be washed into the river.

8. Nothing herein contained shall authorise the Council
   to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or incon-
   sistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regu-
   lation of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, or with
   any provisions of “ The Harbours Act, 1878,” or its amend-
   ments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are
   now or may hereafter be in force.

9. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or
   under this Order in Council shall continue to be in force for
   fourteen years from the date hereof, unless in the mean-
   time such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered,
   modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the
   Council shall not assign, charge, or part with any such
   right, power, or privilege without the previous written con-
   sent of the Minister first obtained.

10. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any
    time resumed by the Governor, without payment of any com-
    pensation whatever, on giving to the Council six calendar
    months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall
    be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or
    posted to the last known address of the Council.

11. The Council shall appoint all officers necessary for
    the control and management of the wharf.

12. The Council shall be liable for any injury which the
    said wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through
    any default or neglect on its part.

13. In case the Council shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-
    before set forth, or any of them ; or
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period
    of thirty days,
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council
    and every right, power, or privilege may be revoked and
    determined by the Governor in Council without any notice
    to the Council or other proceeding whatsoever ; and publi-
    cation in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council
    containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the
    Council, and to all persons concerned or interested, that
    this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges
    thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and de-
    termined.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Licensing J. D. Williams to use and occupy a Part of the
Foreshore of Waiharara River.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of July, 1901.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered
to grant the license hereinafter mentioned, John
David Williams, of Waiharara, in the County of Mongonui
(hereinafter called “ the licensee ”), 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, in order to erect and
maintain thereon a shed, on the Waiharara River, which