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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall
be held on Wednesday, the third day of December, 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
   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 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.

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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.

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Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The
Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

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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 four of “The Native Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the
Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the
operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The
Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said
Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally
or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall
be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate,
which is for the time being subject to the operation of the
said section, or any interest therein or right over the same:
Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of
this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two
months from the date of the publication thereof in the
Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the
provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court
in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act: And whereas
by section two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment
Act, 1899,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council, when
making an order under section four of “The Native Land
Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” permitting land to be mort-
gaged by the Native owner thereof, may except such land
from the operation of sections five and six of “The Native
Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” or of any other enact-
ment in force in the Colony of New Zealand relating to
Native lands or lands owned by Natives, so that the owner
thereof may mortgage the same as fully and effectively, and
confer the same power of sale, as if the land comprised in
the mortgage were lawfully owned by a European ;

And whereas Wiki te Uamairangi, of Hastings, in the
Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, in the Colony of New
Zealand, being the owner of the block of land known as
Ohiti-Waitio No. 1£2, situate in the Provincial District of
Hawke’s Bay, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said
land:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities hereinbefore recited, and of all other
powers and authorities him thereunto enabling, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of
section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land
Court Act, 1894,” the block of land known as Ohiti-Waitio
No. 1£2, containing five hundred and ninety-four acres,
more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Hawke’s
Bay, being the whole of the land comprised in partition order
of the Native Land Court, dated the twenty-sixth day of April,
one thousand nine hundred and two, in favour of Wiki te
Uamairangi, for the purpose of permitting and enabling the
said Wiki te Uamairangi to mortgage the said land: And also,
in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers and
authorities, and acting by and with the advice of the said
Executive Council, and for the purpose of enabling the said
Wiki te Uamairangi to mortgage the said land as fully and
effectually, and confer the same power of sale on the mort-
gagee, as if the said land were lawfully owned by a European,
doth except the said land from the operation of sections five
and six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,”
and of any other enactment in force in the Colony of New
Zealand relating to Native lands or lands owned by Natives.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Fixing Date of Payment of Land-tax for 1902–3.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this third day
of November, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him under “The Land-tax and Income-tax
Act, 1902,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order
and determine that the respective duties leviable under the
said Act by way of land-tax, and of further graduated land-
tax, shall be paid in one sum on Thursday, the twenty-
seventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and
two.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent as
aforesaid, His Excellency doth also determine that the
place where the said duties of land-tax shall be payable shall
be the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, at the Govern-
ment Buildings, Wellington, and that notice to the foregoing
effect shall be given by the said Commissioner accordingly.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Native Land proposed to be taken for a Waterwork in
Kopuatuaki and Waihirere Blocks, Waimata Survey Dis-
trict, County of Cook.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of October, 1902.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto
are required to be taken for a public work, to wit,
the purpose of a waterwork for the Borough of Gisborne:
And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native
owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:
And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the
said lands by the Gisborne Borough Council, as required
by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act,
1894”: