SEPT. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1861

Addition to Clyde (Otago) Domain brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of September, 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 Otago 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 29·5 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 38, 39, and 48, Block XI., Town of Clyde: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 47768, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Powers delegated to the Clyde (Otago) Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of September, 1902.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, 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 CLYDE ATHENÆUM AND PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST,

which shall be known as the Clyde (Otago) Domain Board (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 two o’clock p.m., at the Public Library, Clyde, 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 sixth day of October, 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 Chairman of the Athenæum and Public Library Trust shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

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. 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 63 acres 2 roods 32 perches, more or less, being Blocks IV., V., VI., VII., LVI., and LVII., Town of Clyde; as the same is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 47768, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

Also, all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 29·5 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 38, 39, and 48, Block XI., Town of Clyde: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 47768, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Notifying Lands in Puniwhakau Village, Taranaki, for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and two, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at Stratford; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT. — VILLAGE OF PUNIWHAKAU. — BLOCK III., OMONA SURVEY DISTRICT.

The Puniwhakau Village is situate about twenty-seven miles from Stratford Railway-station, and ten miles from Strathmore, by Taihore Road, which is formed as a dray-road. A dray-bridge has been erected over the Mangaehu River. The land is all level and undulating, covered with bush and light scrub, and the soil is good, resting upon a papa formation.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.