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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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5. The following number of copies of the “Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,” at present deposited in the cellar of the Parliamentary Library, and in the Colonial Museum, namely: Vol. i. (1868), (second edition), 325 copies; Vol. v. (1872), 41 copies; Vol. vi. (1873), 32 copies; Vol. vii. (1874), 154 copies; Vol. ix. (1876), 226 copies; Vol. x. (1877), 147 copies; Vol. xi. (1878), 402 copies; Vol. xii. (1879), 315 copies; Vol. xiii. (1880), 152 copies; Vol. xiv. (1881), 117 copies; Vol. xv. (1882), 290 copies; Vol. xvi. (1883), 280 copies; Vol. xvii. (1884), 549 copies; Vol. xviii. (1885), 319 copies; Vol. xix. (1886), 565 copies; Vol. xx. (1887), 463 copies; Vol. xxi. (1888), 466 copies; Vol. xxii. (1889), 572 copies; Vol. xxiii. (1890), 581 copies; Vol. xxiv. (1891), 682 copies; Vol. xxv. (1892), 638 copies; Vol. xxvi. (1893), 626 copies; Vol. xxvii. (1894), 618 copies; Vol. xxviii. (1895), 702 copies; Vol. xxix. (1896), 605 copies; Vol. xxx. (1897), 699 copies; Vol. xxxi. (1898), 710 copies; Vol. xxxii. (1899), 533 copies; Vol. xxxiii. (1900), 626 copies; Vol. xxxiv. (1901), 579 copies; Vol. xxxv. (1902), 954 copies.

6. The moneys at the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, to credit of the New Zealand Institute on the 21st day of January, 1904, amounting to four hundred and eighteen pounds three shillings (£418 3s.).

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extension of Time for Preparation of Valuation-roll, Borough of Gisborne.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 1904.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” dated the eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, certain lands were included in the Borough of Gisborne as from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and four:

And whereas it is expedient that a valuation-roll of the rateable property in the area so included should be prepared under “The Rating Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Rating Act, 1894,” and “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for completing the preparation of the valuation-list of the rateable property in the said included area until the fifteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four, and doth also extend the time during which such valuation-list shall be open for inspection, and during which objections thereto may be made, until the thirty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 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-fourth day of July, 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 Spreydon and Halswell Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN FERGUSON,
CHARLES LEWIS, M.H.R.,
JOSEPH BARNARD FLEETE,
FREDERICK WILLIAM QUAIFE, and
ISAAC NEWTON

(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 fourth Wednesday in each month, at half-past twelve o’clock p.m., at the office of the Canterbury Sale-yards Company, Addington, 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 twenty-eighth day of September, 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 fourth Wednesday 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 20 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 110, Christchurch Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by the Lower Lincoln Road; towards the north-east by Section No. 379; and towards the south by Section No. 1072 and Reserve No. 128: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of August, 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-fifth day of September, 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, 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