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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

(7.) The voting at the said meeting shall be by ballot, and, except as provided in subclause (10) hereof, every delegate of a society may exercise one vote and no more.

(8.) No person except the delegates of societies named in the list supplied as aforesaid by the Secretary of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce shall speak or vote at the said meeting, and every delegate shall before speaking or voting produce to the satisfaction of the Metropolitan President a document signed by the President or Secretary of one of the said societies certifying that the delegate has been duly appointed by the said society to attend the said meeting, and setting out the number of financial members comprised in the said society on the 31st day of December next preceding the date of the meeting.

(9.) Every society advised as hereinbefore provided to be represented at any such meeting may send thereto one or more delegates according to the number of its financial members as stated in the certificate referred to in the last preceding subclause. The number of such delegates shall not exceed the following scale:—

400 members or under .. .. 1 delegate.
Over 400 members and not over 800.. 2 delegates.
,, 800 ,, ,, 1,200 3 ,,
,, 1,200 ,, .. .. 4 ,,

(10.) If any society fails to send to any such meeting the full number of delegates corresponding to the membership of the society, the delegate or delegates sent by the society may exercise the full number of votes which the whole of the delegates of the society would have been entitled to exercise if present at the meeting.

(11.) At the time and place appointed for any such meeting the Metropolitan President shall invite the delegates to nominate persons to be recommended to the Governor for appointment to the said Board, and if more than one person is thereupon nominated shall take a vote as between the said persons.

(12.) The Metropolitan President shall within three days after the said meeting notify to the Minister of Agriculture by registered letter the names of all persons so nominated, and if a vote has been taken, the number of votes cast for each. The persons so nominated shall thereupon be deemed to have been recommended to the Governor in the order indicated by the number of votes cast for each.

3. Subject to the provisions of clause 5 hereof, each member of the said Board shall when absent from home on the business of the Board be entitled to a refund of his expenses of locomotion, and to a travelling-allowance of one guinea for each day or part of a day during which he is so absent.

4. The Board may, subject to the written concurrence of the Minister of Agriculture, set up one or more temporary special committees consisting wholly or partly of persons not members of the Board to inquire into and report to the Board upon any specified matter or matters.

5. Excepting in the case of his locomotion expenses and travelling-allowances in connection with attendance at meetings of the Board, no member of the said Board shall incur any charge against the public funds without first obtaining the written authority of the Minister of Agriculture.

6. The undermentioned officers may, unless otherwise requested by the President, attend any meeting of the said Board:—

The Secretary of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
The Inspector-General of Schools, and
The Under-Secretary of Lands.

Such officers shall exercise no vote in the proceedings of the Board, but if in the opinion of the President of the Board the subject under discussion affects, or is likely to affect, the Department to which any such officer is attached, the said officer, with the permission of the President, may take part in the discussion.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

North Island.

1. The Auckland District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Auckland, except the Counties of Waiapu, Waikohu, and Cook. Metropolitan Society: The Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

2. The Hawke’s Bay District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, together with the Counties of Waiapu, Waikohu, and Cook. Metropolitan Society: The Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

3. The Taranaki District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Taranaki. Metropolitan Society: The Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

4. The Wellington District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Wellington. Metropolitan Society: The Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

South Island.

5. The Marlborough—Nelson—Westland District.—Comprising the Provincial Districts of Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland. Metropolitan Society: The Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

6. The Canterbury District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Canterbury. Metropolitan Society: The Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

7. The Otago District.—Comprising the Provincial District of Otago, except the Counties of Southland, Wallace, Lake, Fiord, and Stewart Island. Metropolitan Society: The Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society.

8. The Southland District.—Comprising the Counties of Southland, Wallace, Lake, Fiord, and Stewart Island. Metropolitan Society: The Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

The President of the Society,

In accordance with the regulations under the Board of Agriculture Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that the Society may send a delegate or delegates (according to the number of its members*) to a meeting to be held at the [Name of building] at [Name of town], at [Hour] .m., on day, the day of , 19 , for the purpose of recommending persons for appointment by His Excellency the Governor to the Board of Agriculture.

Dated at , the day of , 19 .

Signature:

• See subclause (ix) of clause 2 of the regulations mentioned.

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

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.