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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

manner as therein appears; and doth hereby, with the
like advice and consent, and in respect of the lands herein-
after 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 Kowai Domain Board, namely,—

Frank Courage,
Thomas McNaught,
George Dean Greenwood,
David Brown,
Samuel Coleman,
Thomas Henry Evans,
Alexander McLean,
John McLean, jun.,
George Baynton Starkey,
George Tickner, and
George Wornall

(herein referred to as “the Board”), subject to the stipula-
tions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business
   on the first Wednesday in each month, at eleven o’clock
   a.m., at the office of the Chairman, 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 Wednesday, the sixth
   day of August, 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 five 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
   Wednesday 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 elec-
   tion 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 copy 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 mem-
   bers 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 lands described in the Sche-
dule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District,
containing by admeasurement 14 acres 2 roods 16 perches,
more or less, being parts of Sections Nos. 3135 and 6675,
Block IV., Rangiora Survey District, and bounded as fol-
lows: Commencing at a point on the north side of the road
forming the southern boundary of the said Section No. 6675,
distant 550 links from Pemberton’s Road; thence northerly
by a right line at right angles to the north side of the said
road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 6675,
1000 links; thence easterly by a right line parallel to the
north side of that road, 1379·5 links; thence south-easterly
by a right line, 1017 links, to a point on the north side of
the said road forming the southern boundary of Section
No. 6675, distant 2091·5 links from Pemberton’s Road;
thence westerly by the north side of the said road forming
the southern boundary of Section No. 6675, 1541·5 links, to
the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on
the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch.

Also all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land Dis-
trict, containing by admeasurement 34 acres and 10 perches,
more or less, being part of Section No. 7855 and the whole
of Section No. 7989, Block XII., Grey Survey District, and
comprising the whole of the land described in certificate of
title, Vol. cxxv., folio 77, Canterbury.

Also all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land Dis-
trict, containing by admeasurement 213 acres, more or less,
being Reserve No. 2066, situated in Block VIII., Grey Sur-
vey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Innes
Road and Reserve No. 1675; towards the south-east by
Tobin’s Road; towards the south-west by R.S. No. 19023;
and towards the north-west by R.S. No. 28735: as the same
is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands
and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Native Land in Tangitu Survey District taken for a Police-
station and other Public Buildings.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

O R D E R I N C O U N C I L.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of June, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for public works, to wit,
the construction of a police-station and other public build-
ings:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native
owners, and the title thereto is not derived from the Crown:
And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in
duplicate, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The
Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
vested in him by the said 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 declare that the land shown upon such
map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed
to be taken for the purposes of the public works hereinbefore
mentioned; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty
the King as from the first day of August, one thousand
nine hundred and two.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

In the Land District of Taranaki; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 19674,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Vaccination Districts constituted.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power vested in the
Governor by “The Public Health Act, 1900,” I, Uchter
John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing vaccination
district known as the Castlepoint District, and do declare
that the territory heretofore comprised within the said dis-
trict is hereby divided anew into two vaccination districts,
the names whereof shall be the Pongaroa and Castlepoint
Districts, and the boundaries thereof shall be coterminous
with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the
same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation dated the
twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred
and two, made under the provisions of “The Marriage
Act, 1880.”

And I hereby declare that this Warrant shall come into
operation on the sixteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.