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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1914.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1914.

Regulations under the Board of Agriculture Act, 1913.—Notice No. 1729.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth day of January, 1914.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by the Board of Agriculture Act, 1913, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations—

“Board” means the Board of Agriculture.

“Society” means a society incorporated under the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1908.

2. The manner in which societies may recommend persons for appointment as members of the Board shall be as follows:—

(1.) The North Island shall for the purposes of these regulations be divided into four districts, having the names and boundaries set forth under the heading of North Island in the First Schedule hereto; and the South Island shall similarly be divided into four districts as set forth in the said Schedule under the heading of South Island. One member of the Board may be appointed on the recommendation of such of the societies as have their headquarters in each of the said districts.

(2.) The societies specified as Metropolitan Societies in the said Schedule shall for the purposes of these regulations be deemed to be the Metropolitan Societies for their respective districts.

(3.) The Secretary of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce shall, not later than the 21st day of January, in the year 1914, and not later than the same date in every third year thereafter, send by registered post to the President (hereinafter called the Metropolitan President) of the Metropolitan Society in each of the said districts a list giving the names of all the societies having their headquarters within the district of such Metropolitan Society and which were incorporated on or before the 31st day of December next preceding the issue of the said list.

In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Board the Secretary of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce shall as soon as possible issue in like manner a similar list in respect of the district whose representation has ceased by reason of the said vacancy.

(4.) The President of the Metropolitan Society in each district shall not later than the last day of the month in which the said list is forwarded to him send by registered post to the President of each of the other societies named in the said list a notice (in the form set out in the Second Schedule hereto) advising each society that it may send a delegate or delegates to a meeting to be held for the purpose of recommending persons for appointment by the Governor to the Board.

Every such delegate shall be a member of the society appointing him, or, where a member of that society is unable to attend the meeting, a member of some other society who is willing to attend and act as delegate for the appointing society.

(5.) The meeting shall be held at such convenient centre in the district as may be decided upon by the Metropolitan President, and on a date not later than the 21st day of the month next following the issue of the notice of the meeting. The notice shall give full particulars of the place and time at which the meeting will be held.

(6.) The Metropolitan President shall be the delegate or one of the delegates of the Metropolitan Society at the said meeting, of which he shall be Chairman, and he may exercise thereat a casting vote in addition to a deliberative vote.