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cannot agree the Judge of the High Court shall settle the case and sign it.

5. Such case shall be forwarded to the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, New Zealand, and the Registrar shall set down such case for consideration at once. If, when the case is called upon, counsel appear either for the appellant or for the respondent, the Court shall hear such counsel. If no counsel appear, or counsel on one side only, the Court shall consider the case, and shall, either then or at a subsequent sitting of the Court, pronounce its opinion thereon, and such opinion shall be recorded on the case by the Registrar, who will return the case, with such opinion indorsed, to the High Court at Rarotonga, forwarding the case with all convenient speed.

6. In cases where there is to be a sitting of the Supreme Court at Rarotonga within sixty days after notice of appeal is given, the case stated shall be forwarded to the Supreme Court there, and shall be dealt with in like manner as if the appeal were heard in Auckland.

7. Due security for costs, and for the performance of the judgment of the Supreme Court, shall, within six days after the notice of appeal has been given, be given to the satisfaction of the Judge of the High Court, unless the Court of first instance otherwise orders; and if no such security be given as above the notice of appeal shall be deemed abandoned.

COURT OF APPEAL.

8. All appeals to the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be subject, mutatis mutandis, to the rules for the time in force relating to appeals from the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth 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 sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and one, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth hereby, with the like advice and consent, and in respect of the lands 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 Oxford Domain Board, namely,—

WILLIAM THOMAS GILCHRIST, of Oxford, Farmer;
ARCHIBALD WOTHERSPOON, of Rutherford, Oxford, Farmer;
FREDERICK CROWE, of Oxford, Station-manager;
ARTHUR STUBBS, of Oxford, Farmer; and
LEONARD OTTO INGRAM, of Oxford, Auctioneer

(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 half-past seven o’clock p.m., at the office of the Oxford Road Board, 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 second day of June, 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 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 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 parcels of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 216 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 1651. Bounded towards the west by Section No. 25509 for a distance of 48 chains 64 links; towards the south by the Eyre Road South for a distance of 34 chains 88 links; and towards the east by Section No. 24130, and also by a line in continuation of its western boundary, a distance altogether of 51 chains 55 links: as the same is delineated on the official map in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

Also, all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing 8 acres 2 roods 26 perches, more or less, situated in Block VIII. of the Oxford Survey District, and being that portion of Rural Section No. 1889 to the south of the railway-line intersecting the said section, and being the whole of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. cxxv., folio 120.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth 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 seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth hereby, with the like advice and consent, and in respect of the lands 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 Mercer Domain Board, namely,—

MICHAEL GALLERY,
MATTHEW HUNTER,
RICHARD TREGOWETH,
SCOTT HUNTER,
HENRY HODGE,
CAESAR ROOSE, and
EDWARD HALLET

(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 second Monday in each month, at two o’clock p.m., at Mercer, 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 ninth day of June, 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.