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and the person so chosen shall have and may exercise at
that meeting all the powers of the Chairman.

5. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by
   a majority of the votes of the members present at that
   meeting. In the case of an equality of votes, the Chair-
   man shall, in addition to his deliberative vote, have a
   casting-vote.

6. Minutes of the proceedings of the Committee shall
   be recorded in a minute-book, and the minutes of any
   meeting shall be read and confirmed at the next succeed-
   ing meeting.

7. The Committee may appoint a Secretary, who shall
   be paid such remuneration as the Committee thinks fit.
   The Chairman or any other member of the Committee shall
   be eligible for appointment as Secretary.

8. The books and records of the Committee shall be in
   the custody of the Secretary, or of the Chairman if no
   Secretary has been appointed.

9. The Committee may appoint any place it thinks fit
   as the office of the Committee, and may from time to time
   remove such office to some other place.

10. A copy of the minutes of every meeting of the Com-
    mittee shall be forwarded by the Chairman to the Native
    Minister.

11. (1.) The Committee shall have a seal upon which the
    name of the Committee, either in Maori or English, shall
    be engraved or impressed in legible characters.

(2.) The seal shall be kept in the custody of the Secre-
tary of the Committee, or of the Chairman if no Secretary
has been appointed.

(3.) The seal shall be used for sealing documents which
require to be sealed.

(4.) The seal shall not be affixed to any document except
in the presence of the Chairman and at least two other
members of the Committee, and they shall attest the seal-
ing of the document.

12. The consent of the General Committee for the pur-
    poses of the Urewera District Native Reserve Amendment
    Act, 1909, shall be by resolution passed at a meeting of
    the Committee, and shall be given in writing under the
    seal of the Committee.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Black Swans to cease to be Native Game in Southland.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-
Poynder, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby declare that, from and after the date hereof,
black swans (Cygnus atratus) shall cease to be within the
operation of the said Act within the Southland Acclimati-
sation District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this sixth day of September, one thousand nine
hundred and ten.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a
Reserve in the Hawke's Bay Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains
Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that
the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange,
or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter
vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes
named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act,
whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any
reserve made under the authority of section three hundred
and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the
opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose
of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or
presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other
purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be
expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such
reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one
or more purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor
may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or
dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare
the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be
so made:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron
Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the Public Reserves and

Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change
the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described
in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that
named in the first column of the said Schedule to that
named in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twentieth day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and ten.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in
Otago Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth
section of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-
Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

ERNEST HERBERT WILMOT,
DAVID BARON, and
JOHN ANDREW MACPHERSON

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon Pastoral
Runs Nos. 1, 2, 199, 199I, 240A, 334A, 340B, 121, 121J, 121r,
Sections 5 to 9 and 11 to 15, Block VII, Tuapeka East Sur-
vey District; 4, Block XVI, Maruwenua Survey District; 23,
24, and 25, Block VII, Table Hill Survey District; 1 and 2,
Block XVI, Maerewhenua Survey District; 23 and 24, Block
XI, Maungatua Survey District; 1, Block III, Silverpeak
Survey District; 2, Block III, 3, Block IV, 1, Block VI, and
2. Block VII, Kakanui Survey District; 3 and 4, Block V,
Rankleburn Survey District; and 1, Block VII, Rankle-
burn Survey District, Otago Land District, as provided by
section two hundred and twenty-five of the Land Act,
1908.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this first day of September, one thousand nine
hundred and ten.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.