Nov. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2423

Harbour Board is desirous of executing or constructing any harbour-works upon lands vested in such Board or upon lands of the Crown, of such a nature that the same could, under “The Harbours Act, 1878,” only be carried out and executed under the authority of a special Act, the Board may apply to the Governor in Council for a special Order, and, if the Governor in Council thinks fit, such Order may be made and granted:

And whereas the Greymouth Harbour Board (hereinafter called “the Board”) is desirous of executing or constructing a certain tidal dock and wharf in the Lagoon at Greymouth upon lands of the Crown, and the said works are of such a nature as aforesaid, and the Board has applied to the Governor in Council for the issue of a special Order:

And whereas the conditions precedent to the granting of a special Order prescribed by the said Act have been duly performed and observed, and it appears expedient that such Order should be made:

And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the proposed works will not be or tend to the injury of navigation:

Now, therefore, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise and empower the Board to execute or construct a tidal dock and wharf in the Lagoon at Greymouth, as shown on plan marked M.D. 2539 (two sheets), such tidal dock and wharf to be carried out and constructed in accordance with plan (two sheets) marked M.D. 2539, and subject to the provisions of the said Act and to the condition that the expenditure shall not exceed £20,000 until the sanction of the Minister having charge of the Marine Department has been obtained to expenditure in excess of that amount. And it is hereby ordered and declared that the said works shall be completed on or before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of November, 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 for public recreation in the Canterbury Land District, 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 Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres, more or less, being part of Rural Section No. 727, Block VII., Akaroa Survey District, and comprising all the land described in certificate of title, Vol. cci., folio 194, Canterbury.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Roads in Tuhikaramea Parish and Road District.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of November, 1902.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section twelve, subsection one, of “The Public Works Acts 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 Tuhikaramea Road Board has applied for such consent in respect to the roads 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 Tuhikaramea Road Board closing the parts of the roads mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
PARISH OF TUHIKARAMEA.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked and coloured as above noted, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of November, 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 Canterbury 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 Wainui Domain Board, namely,—

WILLIAM DONALD MCPHAIL,
JOHN ALLEN MCDONALD,
JAMES REID,
JOHN ROBERT TURNER, and
MARK WRIGHT

(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 Wednesday in each month, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at Wainui, or at such other time or place as may from