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(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 second Monday in each month, at seven o’clock p.m., at Sefton, 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 eleventh day of July, 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 five 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 second 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 Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 14 acres 2 roods 16 perches, more or less, being parts of Sections Nos. 3135 and 6675, Block IV., Rangiora Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the north side of the road forming the southern boundary of the said Section No. 6675, distant 550 links from Pemberton’s Road; thence northerly by a right line at right angles to the north side of the said road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 6675, 1000 links; thence easterly by a right line parallel to the north side of that road, 1379·5 links; thence south-easterly by a right line, 1017 links, to a point on the north side of the said road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 6675, distant 2091·5 links from Pemberton’s Road; thence westerly by the north side of the said road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 6675, 1541·5 links, to the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Powers delegated to the Trotter’s Creek Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of June, 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 tenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and one, 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 Trotter’s Creek Domain Board, namely,—

WILLIAM NICOLSON,
JOHN KEMP,
WILLIAM SINCLAIR DALRYMPLE TROTTER,
NEIL CULLING,
JOHN COWIE GOW,
JAMES ROSS, and
DONALD McLEOD

(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 Monday in each month, at seven o’clock p.m., at the residence of Mr. James Ross, Kartigi, 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-seventh day of June, 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 five 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 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. The Board shall not give permission or grant a license to any person to cut or remove timber from the Domain without the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Dunedin being first obtained.

9. 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 Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 183 acres and 11 perches, more or less, situate in Moeraki Survey District, being Section No. 36, Block XI., on the map of the said district. Bounded towards the north-west by Section No. 45, 9500 links; towards the north-east by Section No. 10, 4658 links; and towards the south-east by a road-line and Section No. 18, 2528 links; also by Sections Nos. 21 and 23, 4953 links: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of June, 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,