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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

(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 last Wednesday in each month, at three o’clock p.m., at the Selwyn County Council Office, Christchurch, 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 twenty-eighth 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 last 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 20 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3048 (in red), Block XII., Leeston Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a road-line, 1170·5 links; towards the east by Section No. 19, Block X., Reserve 959, 2088·5 links; towards the south by Section No. 18 of said block, 728·3 links; and towards the west by a road-line along the River Selwyn, 2143·2 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, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Waia tarua Land-drainage District, County of Eden, constituted.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of October, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” a majority of the ratepayers in the district described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Eden, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the land comprised in the said district be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fifth section of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” 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 constitute and declare the block of land described in the said petition, and in the Schedule hereto, to be a district for the purposes of Part I. of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the “Waia tarua Drainage District”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the ninth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall consist of five members, to be elected under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

WAIA TARUA DRAINAGE AREA.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-west by St. John’s College and St. Helier’s Bay Road from its junction with Ladies’ Mile Road to the north-eastern corner of the property of the late D. Mains (parts of Allotments Nos. 25, 24, and 34); thence towards the east by the eastern boundary-line of that property to the northern boundary-line of Allotment No. 25, Section No. 12, Suburbs of Auckland; thence towards the north by the said northern boundary-line and its production to the western boundary-line of Allotment No. 12A (Church of England property); thence towards the west by the western boundary-line of the said Allotment No. 12A to St. John’s College and St. Helier’s Bay Road; thence again towards the north-west by the said St. John’s College and St. Helier’s Bay Road to its junction with the road forming the eastern boundary of Allotment No. 37; thence towards the south-east by the road forming the eastern boundaries of Allotments Nos. 37, 45, 46, 47, 26A, 26, and 27, to the easternmost corner of Allotment No. 630; thence towards the south-west generally by Allotments Nos. 630, 631, the abutment of Wilson Street, and Allotment No. 661 to the south-eastern corner of Allotment No. 665A; thence by the southern and western boundary-lines of the said Allotment No. 665A to the road forming the northern boundary of Allotment No. 653; thence by that road and Allotments Nos. 157 and 162 to Russell Crescent; and thence by Russell Crescent to Bella Street; thence towards the west generally by Bella Street and Ladies’ Mile Road to the place of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Otamataea County Council subject to the Provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of October, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Otamataea County Council, being a leasing authority within the meaning of “The Public Bodies’ Powers Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), has requested that these presents should issue, and it appears expedient to make the order hereinafter contained:

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, doth hereby order and declare that the Otamataea County Council shall, as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, be subject to the provisions of the said Act.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rectifying Description of Boundaries, Hunua and Opaheke Road Districts, County of Manukau.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of October, 1903.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Orders in Council, made under “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” dated the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and the twenty second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and two, the boundaries of the Hunua and Opaheke Road Districts were amended, and the said amended boundaries described in the Schedule to the said Orders in Council: And whereas it has been made to appear that a portion of the boundary between the said road districts was not correctly described in the said Orders in Council, and it is expedient to rectify such misdescription:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by section forty-nine of “The Counties Act, 1886,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this