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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 lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 40 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 41A, Block XI., Apiti Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 41B; towards the north-east by a public road; towards the south by Section No. 15; and towards the north-west by a public road: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Hampden Bush (Hawke’s Bay) Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 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 nineteenth day of October, 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 Hampden Bush (Hawke’s Bay) Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN JAUNCEY BUCHANAN,
EMANUEL SCARROTT,
WILLIAM FRANCIS GLASS,
CHARLES GARDNER, and
GEORGE PARKINSON

(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 first Monday in each month, at three o’clock p.m., at Hampden, Hawke’s Bay, 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 fourth day of April, 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.

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 first Monday 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 parcels of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, being Section No. 36, Tikokino Agricultural Reserve, Block XIII., Maraekakaho Survey District, containing 53 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less.

Also all that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 52 acres 2 roods 8 perches, more or less, being Lot No. 2 of Section No. 37, Tikokino Agricultural Sections, Block XIII., Maraekakaho Survey District.

As the same are delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Reserves in the Timaru Borough Council.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been permanently set aside for improvement and protection of river:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said lands in the Timaru Borough Council:

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,” doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the reserves mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Timaru,” in trust, for improvement and protection of river.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 32 acres, more or less, numbered 3571 (in red), situated in Block XIII., Pareora Survey District, being portion of the Pareora River bed north of Sections Nos. 23907, 16165, 26699, and 23860: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 26489, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and coloured thereon red.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 17 acres, more or less, numbered 3572 (in red), situated in Block XIII., Pareora Survey District, being portion of the Pareora River bed south of Section No. 33829: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 26489, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and coloured thereon red.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 21 acres, more or less, numbered 3573 (in red), situated in Block XIII., Pareora Survey District, being portion of the Pareora River bed lying between the south boundary of Section No. 33829 and the north boundary of Section No. 15983: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 26489, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and coloured thereon red.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 45 acres, more or less, numbered 3574 (in red), situated in Block XIII., Pareora Survey District, being portion of the Pareora River bed north of Section No. 15983 and west of the two-chain road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 26489, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and coloured thereon red.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 7 acres, more or less, numbered 3575 (in red), situated in Block XIII., Pareora Survey District, being portion of the Pareora River bed north of Section No. 15983 and east of the two-chain road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 26489, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wel-