1570
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green, yellow, neutral, and blue.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

J. G. WARD,
Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth 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 first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and two, 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 Wainui Domain Board, namely,—

WILLIAM DONALD MCPHAIL,
JOHN ROBERT TURNER,
MARK WRIGHT,
WILLIAM JAMES WARNER, and
WILLIAM HAROLD BUCKLAND

(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 Wednesday in each month, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at Wainui, 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 Wednesday, the sixth 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 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 Wednesday 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres, more or less, being part of Rural Section No. 727, Block VII., Akaroa Survey District, and comprising all the land described in certificate of title, Vol. cci., folio 194, Canterbury.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulation under “The Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act, 1903.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by “The Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act, 1903,” 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, doth hereby make the following regulation for carrying into effect the purposes of the said Act:—

REGULATION.

Without in any way limiting the requirements of “The Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act, 1903,” that, in order to escape the full duty thereby imposed on the articles mentioned in the Schedule to that Act, the articles must be the bonâ fide produce or manufacture of some part of the British Dominions, it is hereby declared that no manufactured article will be so regarded unless a substantial portion of the labour of one or more specified parts of the said Dominions has entered into the production thereof, to the extent in the case of each article of not less than one-fourth the value of the article in the condition in which it is ready for export to New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Roads in Rangitikei County to be County Roads.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of June, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby order and declare that the roads described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, be county roads.

SCHEDULE.

TORERE–HOROUTA ROAD.

ALL that road in the Wellington Land District, Rangitikei County, known as the Torere–Horouta Road, commencing at its junction with the Ohingaiti–Waiouru Road, and proceeding in an easterly direction across the North Island Main Trunk Railway-line, across the Hautapu River, through the Torere Township, and along the frontages of Sections 5, 9, 10, and 35, Block III., Hautapu Survey District, frontage of Section 5, Block XV., Ohinewairua Survey District, frontage of Section 36, Block III., Hautapu Survey District, and frontages of Sections 6, 5, and 4, Block IV., Hautapu Survey District, terminating at the Moawhango Bridge, Horouta, being a distance of 8 miles 8 chains or thereabouts; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 5161ez, deposited in