JUNE 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1641

Governor to communicate Instructions to Executive Council.

III. The Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instructions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such others, from time to time, as he shall find convenient for Our service to impart to them.

Quorum, Executive Council.

IV. The Executive Council shall not proceed to the despatch of business unless two members at the least (exclusive of the Governor or of the member presiding) be present and assisting throughout the whole of the meetings at which any such business shall be despatched.

Governor to take advice of Executive Council.

V. In the execution of the powers and authorities vested in him, the Governor shall be guided by the advice of the Executive Council; but if in any case he shall see sufficient cause to dissent from the opinion of the said Council, he may act in the exercise of his said powers and authorities in opposition to the opinion of the Council, reporting the matter to Us without delay, with the reasons for his so acting. In any such case it shall be competent to any Member of the said Council to require that there be recorded upon the Minutes of the Council the grounds of any advice or opinion that he may give upon the question.

Laws sent home to have marginal abstracts. Journals and Minutes of Parliament.

VI. The Governor is to take care that all laws assented to by him in Our name, or reserved for the signification of Our pleasure thereon, shall, when transmitted by him, be fairly abstracted in the margins, and be accompanied, in such cases as may seem to him necessary, with such explanatory observations as may be required to exhibit the reasons and occasions for proposing such laws; and he shall also transmit fair copies of the Journals and Minutes of the proceedings of the Parliament of the Dominion, which he is to require from the clerks, or other proper officers in that behalf, of the said Parliament.

Regulation of power of pardon.

VII. The Governor shall not pardon or reprieve any offender without first receiving in capital cases the advice of the Executive Council, and in other cases the advice of one at least of his Ministers; and in any case in which such pardon or reprieve might directly affect the interests of Our Empire, or of any country or place beyond the jurisdiction of the Government of the Dominion, the Governor shall, before deciding as to either pardon or reprieve, take those interests specially into his own personal consideration in conjunction with such advice as aforesaid.

Judges, &c., to be appointed during pleasure.

VIII. All Commissions granted by the Governor to any persons to be Judges, Justices of the Peace, or other officers, shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be granted during pleasure only.

Governor’s absence. Temporary absence.

IX. The Governor shall not quit the Dominion without having first obtained leave from Us for so doing under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, except for the purpose of visiting the Governor-General of Australia or the Governor of any neighbouring Colony or State for periods not exceeding one month at any one time, nor exceeding in the aggregate one month for every year’s service in the Dominion.

Governor’s absence and departure from the Dominion. Interpretation Clause.

X. The temporary absence of the Governor for any period not exceeding one month shall not, if he have previously informed the Executive Council, in writing, of his intended absence, and if he have duly appointed a Deputy in accordance with Our said Letters Patent, nor shall any extension of such period sanctioned by one of Our Principal Secretaries of State and not exceeding fourteen days, be deemed a departure from the Dominion within the meaning of Our said Letters Patent.

Revokes Instructions of 26th March, 1892.

XI. From and after the date of the coming into operation of Our above-recited Letters Patent of even date, the Instructions issued to the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand under the Sign Manual and Signet of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of March, 1892, shall, without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, be revoked.

Given at Our Court at St. James’s, this Eighteenth day of November, 1907, in the Seventh year of Our Reign.

Instructions to the
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
Dominion of New Zealand.

NEW ZEALAND.

Commission passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet appointing the Right Honourable Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand.

EDWARD R. & I.

Dated 20th November, 1907.

EDWARD THE SEVENTH, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India: To Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of Our Royal Victorian Order, Greeting.

Appointment of the Right Hon. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., to be Governor.

We do, by this Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet, appoint you, the said William Lee, Baron Plunket, to be, during Our pleasure, Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand, with all the powers, rights, privileges, and advantages to the said Office belonging or appertaining.

His duties and powers under Letters Patent.

II. And We do hereby authorise, empower, and command you to exercise and perform all and singular the powers and directions contained in Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster the Eighteenth day of November, 1907, or in any other Letters Patent adding to, amending, or substituted for the same, according to such Orders and Instructions as you have already received or may hereafter receive from us.

Commission of 9th March, 1904, superseded.

III. And We do hereby appoint that from and after the date of the coming into operation of Our above-recited Letters Patent of the Eighteenth day of November, 1907, this Our present Commission shall supersede Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the Ninth day of March, 1904, appointing you to be Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies.

Officers and others to take notice, &c.

IV. And We do hereby command all and singular Our Officers, Ministers, and loving subjects in Our said Dominion, and all others whom it may concern, to take due notice hereof, and to give their ready obedience accordingly.

Given at Our Court at Saint James’s, this Twentieth day of November, 1907, in the Seventh year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty’s Command.

ELGIN.

Commission appointing the
Right Honourable Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.,
to be Governor and Commander-in Chief,
Dominion of New Zealand.

Special Order made by the Stratford County Council altering Ridings and fixing Representation.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th June, 1908.

THE following special order, made by the Stratford County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

Copy of a Special Order instituted at a Special Meeting of the Stratford County Council held on the 25th day of March, 1908, and confirmed at a Meeting of the Council held on the 20th day of May, 1908.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Counties Act, 1886,” the Stratford County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That it be a special order that the East Riding of the County of Stratford be divided, and a new riding, to be called the Mangaehu Riding, be created, to include all that portion of the present East Riding contained within the following boundaries: Starting at Mount Humphries Trig. Station; thence in a westerly direction along the boundary between Stratford and Whangamomona Counties to the centre of the Ohura Road; thence along the centre-line of the Ohura Road to a point opposite the boundary between Subs. 13 and 11, Toko B Block, Block IV, Ngaiere Survey District; thence to