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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

SCHEDULE.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to closing Road in Upper Ashburton Road District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of February, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twelve, subsection one, of “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county or district road to be stopped, and such road shall not be deemed to be stopped, until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained:

And whereas the Upper Ashburton Road Board has applied for such consent in respect to the road described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, 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 consent to the Upper Ashburton Road Board closing the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above noted, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

ALEX. WILLIS.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth 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 twentieth day of January, 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 Christchurch Domains Board, namely,—

Hugh Percy Murray-Aynsley,

The Hon. Charles Christopher Bowen,

Henry George Ell, M.H.R.,

Harry Joseph Beswick,

Charles Matthew Gray,

James Gough,

Gilbert Hamilton McHaffie,

Thomas Henry Davey, M.H.R.,

Dr. Leonard Cockayne,

George Witty, M.H.R.,

The Mayor of the City of Christchurch, ex officio, and

The Chairman of the Selwyn County Council, ex officio,

subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet at such times and places as shall be from time to time appointed by the Chairman, or when it shall be convened by him; and the business shall be conducted under such regulations as shall be determined on by the Board.

2. The Board shall keep proper minutes and records of all its proceedings, and full accounts of its receipts and expenditure.

3. 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.

4. This delegation of powers to the Board shall not in any way affect any lease or contract now validly in force in respect of any portion of the lands named in the Schedule hereto, nor any agreement in respect of the dedication of any portion of the said lands to any purpose of public recreation or amusement.

5. None of the powers delegated shall be exercised in respect of the ground occupied by the building known as the Canterbury Museum, or by any building pertaining thereto which has been or may hereafter be erected in connection therewith, or of such enclosures in connection therewith as may be approved by the Board and the Governor. The Trustees of the said Museum, and their officers and servants, shall at all times have the right of ingress and egress to and from the said Museum at such times as shall be determined by the said Trustees.

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 area in the Canterbury Land District, known as Hagley Park and the Government Domain, containing by admeasurement 495 acres, more or less, being parts of Reserves 24 and 25, Block XI., Christchurch Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the River Avon; towards the east by the River Avon and Antigua Street; towards the south-east by the Lincoln Road; towards the south by a road in continuation of the South Town Belt of the City of Christchurch; and towards the west by a road-line forming the eastern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 9, 10, and 163, to the aforesaid River Avon: excepting, nevertheless, therefrom the three following parcels of land, that is to say,—(1) the lands occupied by the Christchurch Hospital Board, as described in the four Schedules attached to “The Christchurch Hospital Act, 1887,” and containing a total area of 13 acres 2 roods 18 perches; and also (2) that portion of land, containing 9 acres 3 roods, as vested in the Corporation of Christ’s College, Canterbury, by deed 21p, folio 487; and also (3) two road-lines, each 100 links wide, known as Park and Riccarton Roads, which intersect the above-described lands, containing respectively 5 acres 1 rood 10 perches and 6 acres 2 roods; the three above-excepted portions of land making a total deduction of 35 acres and 28 perches, for which allowance has been made in the acreage of the above-described park and domain: as the same is more particularly delineated on the map deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.