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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 Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 24 acres and 12 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 634. Bounded towards the west by a line fronting on a public road, commencing at the north-western corner of Rural Section No. 6230, bearing 2° 54', and running a distance of 2511·4 links; towards the north and west by lines abutting on land in the occupation of the Waimate County Council as a site for a public pound, bearing respectively 100° 5' for a distance of 300 links, and 10° 5' for a distance of 330 links; again towards the north by a line bearing 100° 5' for a distance of 736·4 links; towards the east by a line abutting on the Railway Reserve, bearing 190° 5', for a distance of 2730 links; and towards the south by a line abutting on Rural Section No. 6230, bearing 272° 54', for a distance of 729 links, to the commencing-point: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amended Regulations as to Sea-fishing Boats.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section five of “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894,” as amended by section two of “The Sea-fisheries Amendment Act, 1903,” that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations, which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein, for, amongst other things, providing for carrying out, enforcing, and giving effect to the registry of boats employed in fishing, and prescribing a system of registry, or lettering and numbering of boats, or distinguishing flags to be carried by boats, and the sails, nets, or other gear belonging to them and used in fishing, and defining the boats or classes of boats to which any regulations are to apply: And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 19, of the third day of March following, certain regulations were made under the provisions of the Acts hereinbefore referred to, providing, amongst other things, for lettering and numbering of sea-fishing boats:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke regulations numbered 16, 17, 18, and 19 of the said regulations, and to make other regulations in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the hereinbefore-recited Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulations numbered 16, 17, 18, and 19 so made as aforesaid, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations:—

REGULATIONS.

16. The name of each boat and that of the port or place of registry shall be painted in white oil colour on a black ground, or in black on a white ground, outside the stern of the boat, in letters which shall be not less than three inches in height and half an inch in breadth.

17. Every boat shall bear in the following manner the letter or letters and the number assigned to the boat in her register:—

(a.) The letters shall precede the number.

(b.) The letters and number shall be placed on each bow of the boat three or four inches below the gunwale, so as to be clearly visible.

(c.) In the case of steamers the letters and number shall, in addition, be placed in a similar manner on each quarter, and on the funnel twelve inches from the top, of a conspicuous size, and as far as possible on the foremost half of the circumference.

(d.) The letters and number shall be painted in white oil colour on a black hull, and in black oil colour on a white hull.

Provided that in the cases where the hulls are painted an intermediate shade a black or white ground shall be provided for the letters and numbers, and the letters and numbers shall be of the opposite colour to the ground.

18. (1.) The same letters and number shall be painted in oil colour on each side of the centre cloth or cloths of the mainsail of the boat, immediately above the close reef, and in such a manner as to be plainly visible; or the same may be painted in oil colour on separate pieces of canvas or other suitable material, which shall be sewn on each side of the sail in the position herein described. They shall be painted on white sails in black and on black sails in white, and where the sails are of an intermediate shade the said letters and number shall be painted in black on sails of light shade and in white on sails of dark shade.

(2.) Provided that in the case of a lug-sail boat the letters and number shall be placed on the sail which is commonly used when the boat is engaged in fishing.

(3.) Whenever the Collector of the port or place of registry reports to the Marine Department that he is in doubt as to the effectiveness for the purposes of these regulations of the colour of the letters and number in the case of a boat having any sail of intermediate shade, or whenever any question arises as to the effectiveness for the purposes of these regulations of the colour of the letters and number for any sail of intermediate shade, the letters and number shall be painted in black or white, as the Marine Department may in each case direct.

19. (1.) The letters and numbers shall be on the hulls six inches at least in height and three-quarters of an inch at least in breadth, and on the sails one-third larger every way.

(2.) Provided that in boats which have a “bend-piece” or “rubbing-streak” the letters and numbers shall be as high as the space above it will admit. In boats where the space between the gunwale and water-line is not sufficient for the prescribed height the letters and numbers shall be as high as the space will admit.

(3.) In all cases a space equal to one-third of the height of the letters shall be left between every two letters and every two figures forming the number, and the letters shall be separated from the number by twice the same space.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh 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 twelfth day of May, 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 Dunsandel Domain Board, namely,—

John Henry,
John McMillan,
George Lill,
James Brown,
Samuel Sherrard,
John Talbot Wright, and
John Samuel Boag,

all of Dunsandel (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 Wednesday in each month, at four o’clock p.m., at Dunsandel, 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 thirteenth 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’