1810
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

the east by Section No. 468b and the Manawatu River; towards the south by Section No. 463b and the Manawatu River; and towards the west by Section No. 463b and Ahuriri or Gorge Road.

As the same are delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of September, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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 Huirangi Domain Board, namely,—

GEORGE GIBSON ANDREWS, of Waitara, Factory-manager;
STEPHEN TURNBULL, of Huirangi, Farmer; and
ROBERT WELLS, of Huirangi, 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 Monday in each month, at two o’clock p.m., at the Schoolhouse, Huirangi, 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 Monday, the seventh day of October, 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. No meeting shall be held unless all the members are present. 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 Monday 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 but no 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. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board.

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 Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, situate in the Town of Huirangi, being Sections Nos. 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, and 175 on the map of the said town.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Directing Sale of Land under “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of September, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the twenty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that, if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or provincial Ordinance, or otherwise however, for any public work, is not required for such public work, the Governor may, by Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions set forth in the said Act: And whereas a memorial has been laid before the Governor by the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board, accompanied by a map, setting forth that certain land was acquired by the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board for road purposes, viz., part of Reserve No. 222, Block XIII., Pigeon Bay Survey District: And whereas the portion of said land described in the Schedule hereto is not now required by the said Road Board for road purposes or otherwise, and the said Road Board desires to sell the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby direct the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

As the same is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Insurance of Parcels: Amounts and Fees for Compensation.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of September, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, regulations and rates of postage were respectively made and fixed under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), for the transmission of parcels within New Zealand, to the United Kingdom, and to other countries: And whereas it is expedient to alter the amounts and fees for the compensation which, in conformity with such regulations, the Postmaster-General is thereby permitted to pay for the loss of insured parcels, in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke so much of the above-recited regulations set forth under the heading “Insurance Fees” as prescribes the rates or fees for insurance and the amount of compensation payable for the loss of insured parcels respectively, and in lieu thereof doth hereby prescribe and fix the fees and amounts of compensation set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth further order that such amended fees and amounts of compensation shall have effect and come into force on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette,