Jan. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 7

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of December, 1901.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER 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 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 Torere Domain Board, namely,—

DAVID WILKIE,
DAVID WILKIE, Sen.,
ROBERT CAMPBELL,
DAVID McCRACKEN, and
FREDERICK WILLIAM BEECHEY

(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 last Friday in each month, at eight o’clock p.m., at the Hall, Torere, 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 Friday, the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

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 last Friday 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, 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 land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 1 rood 30 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 44 and 45, Village of Torere: as the same are delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Reserves in the Patea County Council.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of December, 1901.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto were permanently set aside as reserves for gravel and road-metal purposes respectively:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said lands in the Patea County Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserves mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Patea County,” in trust, as reserves for gravel and road-metal purposes respectively.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 8 perches, more or less, being Section No. 16, Block VIII., Wairoa Survey District. Bounded towards the north by public road, 100 links wide; towards the south by public road, 100 links wide; and towards the west by Section No. 6A: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

Also, all that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 22, Block IV., Wairoa Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Waikari Road; towards the east by Section No. 16; towards the south by Section No. 16; and towards the west by Section No. 21: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Temporarily reserving Land in the Nelson Land District.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, and by section twenty-nine of “The Reserves and other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1901,” do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Land District of Nelson described in the Schedule hereunder written, as a site for a school-teacher’s residence.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 32 perches, more or less, being Section No. 61, Town of Denniston. Bounded towards the north by Dickson Street, 80 links; towards the east by Boswell Street, 250 links; towards the south by Section No. 67, 80 links; and towards the west by Section No. 60, 250 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Nelson.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.