2018
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Wellington Land District, commencing at its junction with the Masterton-Waimata-Tinui Road, in Section 605, Block VII., Otahoua Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction until it crosses the Wainuioru River in Section 130, N. Waipapa Native Reserve, Block XI., in the above-named survey district, commonly known as Brancepeth; and proceeding thence generally easterly and southerly to its junction with the Waikaraka and Bismarck Roads, in Small Grazing-run No. 54, Block XIII., Rewa; the whole road being in the County of Masterton: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 1019a, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, coloured scarlet, and marked A B C thereon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of September, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and one, 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 Waikuku Domain Board, namely,—

NATHANIEL BARNARD ARCHER,
SAMUEL HENRY GRIFFITHS,
JAMES STOKES MORRIS,
GEORGE DUNKINSON,
CHARLES EDWARD SKEVINGTON,
EDWARD STOKES, and
JOHN PETRIE

(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 half-past seven o’clock p.m., at the schoolhouse, Waikuku, 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 nineteenth day of October, 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 parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 80 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 3224, Block VIII., Rangiora Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a line in continuation of the southern boundary of Rural Section No. 2931; towards the east by the road reserved along the high-water mark; towards the south by a line at right angles to the general direction of the coast, and about 50 chains distant from the north-east corner; and towards the west by the road having frontage on Rural Sections Nos. 17713 and 17716: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of September, 1903.

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, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bona fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: 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:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and 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,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, all that block or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing one hundred acres, more or less, known as Horowhenua No. 6b, being the land comprised in an order of the Native Land Court, dated the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, in favour of Ngahuiā Eruera.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting a Reserve in the Whakatane County Council.

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

Present:

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

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto was permanently set aside as a reserve for public-pound purposes on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven:

And whereas in the opinion of the Governor it is expedient to vest the said land in the Whakatane County Council;