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4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the first Saturday in February 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 Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres and 32 perches, more or less, being Section No. 51, Block V., Weber Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 976 links; towards the south-east by Section No. 52, 1252, 1252 links; towards the south-west by Section No. 50, 910 links; and towards the north-west by Section No. 49, 960 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, Napier.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Powers delegated to the Tauranga (Racecourse) Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of February, 1904.

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 fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three, 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 Tauranga (Racecourse) Domain Board, namely,—

WILLIAM MCKENZIE COMMONS,
DAVID LUNDON,
THOMAS TANNER,
DAVID ASHER, and
DOCTOR WILLIAM BROWN

(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 three o’clock p.m., at Tauranga, 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 twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and four.

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.

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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.

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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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Amending Regulations under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of February, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the fiftieth section of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council published in the Gazette and Kahiti, make regulations for any of the purposes in the said section specified:

And whereas regulations under the above-in-part-recited Act have, by Orders in Council of the twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred, the twentieth day of April and the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and three, been made and published as aforesaid:

And whereas it is deemed advisable to supplement, amend, and alter the aforesaid regulations as hereinafter appears:

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 supplement, amend, and alter the aforesaid regulations in the following manner, that is to say,—

Sections 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 73, 74, and 75, and Forms K and M, of the aforesaid regulations are hereby repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

62. The lease to be granted in pursuance of any tender may be in the Form M in the Schedule hereto, or in such other form as the circumstances may require.

63. No tender shall be accepted or lease granted except the same be in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and its amendments and the regulations made thereunder.

64. No lease shall comprise more than 2,000 acres, in-