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said Act), to the undermentioned persons, who shall be known as the Winchester Domain Board, namely,—

ARTHUR LLEWELLYN BARKER,
WILLIAM DE RENZIE,
JAMES PATERSON,
JOHN ALBERT YOUNG, and
FREDERICK WILLIAM SHALLARD

(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 the Mechanics’ Institute, Winchester, 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 second day of May, 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 parcel of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, being Reserve No. 2402 (in red), containing 30 acres, more or less, situated in Block XIV., Geraldine Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Reserve No. 2449 (in red) from the Main South Road to the Railway Reserve; thence towards the east by the said Railway Reserve (Hurunui-Bluff) to Reserve No. 2401 (in red); thence towards the south by the said Reserve No. 2401 to the Main South Road; thence towards the west by the Main South Road to the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan No. 50578, and thereon bordered red, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first 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 twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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, dele-

gate 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 Happy Valley Domain Board, namely,—

MICHAEL MOFFITT,
COLIN ROBERTSON,
JAMES HANDYSIDE,
JOSEPH DAVIDSON, and
WILLIAM CHRISTIE

(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 Thursday in each month, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at the office of James Handyside, Wellington Street, Waikaka, 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 Thursday, the fifth day of May, 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 Thursday 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 area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 55 acres 2 roods, being Section No. 7, Block III., Waikaka Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. I, Block X., Waikaka Survey District, from the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned section to a road forming the north-western boundary of Section No. 9 of the said Block III.; thence towards the south-east by the last-mentioned road; thence by a road forming the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 8 of the said Block III.; thence towards the south-west by the last-mentioned road to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 10, Block III.; thence towards the north-west by the said Section No. 10 to the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first 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