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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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 Hirstfield Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN FORBES,
LEONARD CROSS,
FREDERICK HERMAN WILSON,
WALTER CROWTHER, and
JAMES ADAMSON

(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 third Saturday in each month, at noon, at Hirstfield, 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 Saturday, the seventeenth 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 third Saturday 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 area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 15 acres 3 roods 21 perches, more or less, being Section No. 1, Block X., Township of Hirstfield. Bounded towards the north-east by Denbigh Street, 528·1 links; towards the east by Frome Street, 858·5 links; towards the south-east by Aurum Street, 1122·7 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 6 and 7 of said block, 1100 links; and towards the north-west by tramway reserve, 1392·5 links: excepting from the above-described area a water-race intersecting: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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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 eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, 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 Rangiwahia Domain Board, namely,—

MURDOCH MARTIN,
CHARLES MCKINNON,
ERNEST WILLIAM PEMBERTON,
JOSEPH CAREY, and
JOHN KINKEAD

(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 third Thursday in each month, at half-past seven o’clock p.m., at Rangiwahia, 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 fifteenth 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 third Thursday 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 ordinary 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 Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being Section No. 61, Township of Rangiwahia. Bounded towards the north by Wairaki Street; towards the east by Kawhatau Street; towards the south by Otamakapua Street; and towards the west by Maungawharariki Street: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Consenting to Land being taken for Extension of Drain through Block X., Kairanga Survey District, Kairanga County.

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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 “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, in section fourteen, subsection two, thereof, inter alia, enacted that there shall not be taken any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard, or vineyard, or any bonâ fide occupation as an ornamental park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of the Governor in Council:

And whereas an application has been made by the Manawatu Land Drainage Board for the issue of an Order in Council under the said section, consenting to the taking of land for the widening, deepening, and reconstructing of the