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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.

4. This delegation of powers to the Board shall not in any way affect any lease or contract now validly in force in respect of any portion of the lands named in the Schedule hereto, nor any agreement in respect of the dedication of any portion of the said lands to any purpose of public recreation or amusement.

5. None of the powers delegated shall be exercised in respect of the ground occupied by the building known as the Canterbury Museum, or by any building pertaining thereto which has been or may hereafter be erected in connection therewith, or of such enclosures in connection therewith as may be approved by the Board and the Governor. The Trustees of the said Museum, and their officers and servants, shall at all times have the right of ingress and egress to and from the said Museum at such times as shall be determined by the said Trustees.

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 Canterbury Land District, known as Hagley Park and the Government Domain, containing by admeasurement 495 acres, more or less, being parts of Reserves 24 and 25, Block XI., Christchurch Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the River Avon; towards the east by the River Avon and Antigua Street; towards the south-east by the Lincoln Road; towards the south by a road in continuation of the South Town Belt of the City of Christchurch; and towards the west by a road-line forming the eastern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 9, 10, and 163, to the aforesaid River Avon: excepting, nevertheless, therefrom the three following parcels of land, that is to say,—
(1) the lands occupied by the Christchurch Hospital Board, as described in the four Schedules attached to “The Christchurch Hospital Act, 1887,” and containing a total area of 13 acres 2 roods 18 perches; and also (2) that portion of land, containing 9 acres 3 roods, as vested in the Corporation of Christ’s College, Canterbury, by deed 21b, folio 487; and also (3) two road-lines, each 100 links wide, known as Park and Riccarton Roads, which intersect the above-described lands, containing respectively 5 acres 1 rood 10 perches and 6 acres 2 roods; the three above-excepted portions of land making a total deduction of 35 acres and 28 perches, for which allowance has been made in the acreage of the above-described park and domain: as the same is more particularly delineated on the map deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of September, 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 fifteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four, 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 Kaitawa Domain Board, namely,—

ALEXANDER ROSS,
ERIC WHITCOMBE,
JAMES HENDERSON,
ANDREW KNOX, and
GEORGE JOHN OLDRIDGE,

(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 Wednesday in each month, at eight o’clock p.m., at Kaitawa, 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-first 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 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 15 acres and 36 perches, more or less, being Suburban Section No. 13, Township of Kaitawa, Makuri Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Marchant Street; towards the east by Kaitawa Township, Sections Nos. 14 and 15; towards the south by Bridge Street; and towards the west by a public road along the eastern bank of the Tiraumea River: 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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Powers delegated to the Dobson Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of September, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the twelfth section of “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time delegate all or any of the powers by the said Act conferred, save as is therein mentioned, to any person or persons, for any period, and subject to such stipulations as may be specified in such Order, and that every such delegation may from time to time in like manner be altered or revoked:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby, 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 BRUNNER BOROUGH COUNCIL,

which shall be known as the Dobson Domain Board (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 Monday in each month, at three o’clock p.m.,