APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 909

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of April, 1902.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD PRESIDING 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 first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, 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 undermentioned persons, who shall be known as the Reefton Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN DAWSON,
JOHN DICK,
JAMES CONNOLLY,
JAMES STEVENSON, and
CHARLES MIRFIN

(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 fourth Monday in each month, at four o’clock p.m., at the County Council Chambers, Reefton, 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 twenty-sixth day of May, 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 fourth Monday 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 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 Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 72 acres 2 roods 17 perches, more or less, being Section No. 189, Block IX., Reefton Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Crown land, 4725 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 1575 links; towards the south-west by a public road, 4500 links; and towards the north-west by a public road, 1590 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting a Reserve in the Ashburton County Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of April, 1902.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto has been permanently reserved for plantation purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the Ashburton County Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting 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 reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Ashburton County,” in trust, for plantation purposes.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 11 acres 1 rood 35 perches, more or less, being Section No. 3416 (in red), Block X., Shepherd’s Bush Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a road-line, 560·5 links; towards the north-east by a road-line, 2049·6 links; towards the south-east by Rural Section No. 32749, 560·5 links; and towards the south-west by Rural Section No. 36491, 2042·7 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, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Portion of Road through R.S. 6633, Block VI., Oxford Survey District, Oxford Road District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of April, 1902.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twelve, subsection one, of “The Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1900,” it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained:

And whereas the Oxford Road Board has applied for such consent in respect to the portion of the road described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby consent to the closing of the part of the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 3222, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.