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on the plan marked S.G. 44922A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Also, all that area in the Auckland Land District, being Section No. 10B of Block XVI., Otamatea Survey District, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 3 roods 20 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 302, 28, 162, 374, 234, and 141 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 93, 216, 149, 257, 226, and 277 links; towards the south west by a public road, 843 links; and towards the north-west by Section No. 10A of Block XVI., Otamatea Survey District, 988 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 44922B, 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.

Authorising the Exchange of a Reserve in Canterbury for other Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth day of January, 1903.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto has been set apart as a site for a public library: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the said land for that described in the second column of the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and the third section of “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889,” doth hereby declare that the said land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto may be exchanged for the land described in the second column of the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth day of January, 1903.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD 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 a certain Order in Council, dated the twenty-second day of November, one thousand nine hundred, 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 TAUHOA ROAD BOARD,
which shall be known as the Tauhoa 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 third Monday in each month, at 8 p.m., at the Road Board Office, Tauhoa, 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 sixteenth day of February, 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 Monday 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 parcels of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those parcels of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 92 acres 2 roods 10 perches, more or less, and known as Sections Nos. 145, 146, and 148, of the Parish of Tauhoa, in the Otamatea Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by lines, 1709 links and 1536 links, and by a road-line, 49 links and 215 links; towards the south-east generally by a road, 142 links and 113 links, the crossing of a road, by the same road, 126 links, and by Section No. 75, 2184 links; towards the south-west by Section No. 147 and the crossing of a road, 988 links; again towards the south-east by a road, 521 links; again towards the north-east by the crossing of a road, Section No. 147 aforesaid, and Section No. 75 aforesaid, 1335 links, 251 links, and 1246 links; again towards the south-east by Section No. 76, 287 links; again towards the south-west by a road, 562 links, 561 links, 507 links, 739 links, and 325 links, and by the crossing of a road; again towards the south-east by a road, 900 links, 538 links, 476 links, and 42 links; and towards the north-west by a road, 1321 links, 836 links, and