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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

of the said society, or person producing a license, produce and show to such ranger, constable, member, or person his license, and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him for taking, catching, or killing trout, carp, or perch.

8. Every trout, carp, or perch not exceeding eight inches in length from nose to tip of tail, taken or caught by any person, shall immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken.

9. No person shall put, throw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, or placed, in any of the said waters, any sawdust or sawmill refuse, or anything of any kind or description whatever poisonous, deleterious, or noxious to fish.

10. No person shall take, fish for, catch, or kill in any manner whatever, or have in his possession, any salmon, salmon-parr, or smolts, or the ova, young, or fry of any salmon in any stage whatever; and any of the abovenamed taken by accident shall immediately be returned to the water from whence it was taken.

11. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale, within the district to which these regulations relate, any of the salmonidæ, trout, carp, or perch, or take, fish for, catch, or kill any of the salmonidæ, trout, carp, or perch in order to make sale of the same, without permission in writing under the hand of the Secretary of the said society.

12. No person shall have in his possession any of the salmonidæ, trout, carp, or perch between the first day of May and the first day of October in each year, which period is appointed a close season for all such fish.

13. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations shall not be less than forty shillings or more than fifty pounds.

14. These regulations shall come into force as from the date of this Order in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Seddon Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of June, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Marlborough Land District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 2 roods 3 perches, more or less, being Section No. 9, Block VII., Town of Seddon. Bounded towards the north-east by Seymour Street, 1558·8 links; towards the south-east by Redwood Street, 935·1 links; towards the south-west by Foster Street, 530·3, 720·4, and 298 links; and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, 367·3, 148·6, and 316·7 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, Blenheim.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of June, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 Marlborough 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 undermentioned persons, who shall be known as the Seddon Domain Board, namely,—

GEORGE MCLEOD GUNN,
DAVID LAMBERT,
RICHARD EDWARD HAY,
JOHN GEORGE ARMSTRONG, and
JOHN BARRETT

(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 Saturday in each month, at three o’clock p.m., at the Schoolhouse, Seddon, 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 Saturday, the fifth day of July, 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 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 land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 2 roods 3 perches, more or less, being Section No. 9, Block VII., Town of Seddon. Bounded towards the north-east by Seymour Street, 1558·8 links; towards the south-east by Redwood Street, 935·1 links; towards the south-west by Foster Street, 530·3, 720·4, and 298 links; and towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, 367·3, 148·6, and 316·7 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, Blenheim.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.