May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1197

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the second Wednesday in each month, at four o'clock p.m., at Dunsandel, 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 tenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three.

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 second Wednesday in January 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 lands described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 316, situate in Block VIII., Selwyn Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a road-line; towards the south-east by Section No. 9064, 95·3 links; towards the south-west by the same section, 1000 links; and towards the north-west by the Great Southern Railway Reserve, 1060 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the map deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, 1903.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING 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 certain Orders in Council, dated the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth hereby, with the like advice and consent, 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 Alfredton Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN BONSTEAD,
FRANCIS HENRY DUNDERDALE,
CECIL KEBBELL,
WILLIAM CROSS, and
HENRY BENTON

(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 third Wednesday in each month, at seven o’clock p.m., at Alfredton, 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 seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three.

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 third Wednesday in January 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.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 100 acres, more or less, being Section No. 201, Block XII., Mangaone Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the Moroa Native Reserve and the abutment of a road, 1269 links; towards the east by Section No. 204, 4039 links; towards the south by Section No. 79, 760 links, by the abutment of a road, 88 links, and by Section No. 116, 2187 links; towards the west by the Thuraua River, 6050 links, by a line, 279 links, and by a public road, 667 links; and towards the north-west by the abutment of a road, 101½ links, and by Section No. 202, 2202 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, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring Injurious Birds under “The Birds Nuisance Act, 1902.”—Notice No. 777.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, 1903.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section two of “The Birds Nuisance Act, 1902,” 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

The House-sparrow (Passer domesticus),
The Yellow-hammer (Emberiza citrinella), and
The Greenfinch, sometimes called Green Linnet (Ligurinus chloris),

to be injurious birds within the meaning of the said Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.