June 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1395

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 Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 200 acres, more or less, known as the Racecourse Reserve, and being Sections Nos. 22, 23, 24, and 25 of the Parish of Te Papa, Tauranga Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 22a, 4262 links; towards the east by a road 100 links wide, 5067 links; towards the south by Section No. 38, 3680 links; and towards the west by a line forming the margin of the Kopurererua Swamp: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring a certain Road in Ngaiere Survey District, Stratford County, to be a County Road.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1903.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and two of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” 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 order that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

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SCHEDULE.

That portion of the road known as Victoria Street which lies within Section No. 19, Block II., Ngaiere Survey District, extending in a westerly direction from the eastern boundary of said Section No. 19 for a distance of about 1052·3 links, all in the South Riding of Stratford County, in the Land District of Taranaki; as the said portion of road is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 20355, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured sepia; the said parcel of land having been taken for a road by a Proclamation under the said Act, and dated the 12th day of December, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 18th day of December, 1902.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Terms and Conditions of Sale and Lease of Kokatahi Village-settlement Lands, Westland Land District.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1903.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-sixty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three, the lands described in the First and Second Schedules hereto have been set apart under the said Act as a village settlement, and it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on which the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by public auction for cash, and the lands mentioned in the Second Schedule by way of lease in perpetuity, and which said terms and conditions are set forth in the Third Schedule hereto.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—KANIERI SURVEY DISTRICT.—KOKATAHI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

(For Sale for Cash by Public Auction.)

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND COUNTY.—KANIERI SURVEY DISTRICT.—KOKATAHI VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

(Village-homestead Allotments for Lease in Perpetuity.)

First-class Land.

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THIRD SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands.

2. The lands in the First Schedule are village allotments, and will be offered for sale by public auction on Wednesday, the 29th July, 1903. One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance (with Crown-grant fee) within thirty days thereafter.

3. The lands in the Second Schedule are village-homestead allotments for selection on lease in perpetuity under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and shall be open for application on Wednesday, the 29th July, 1903.