3556
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 121

one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Wednesday, the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waimea County.—Howard Survey District.

SECTION 10, Block IV, and Section 5, Block VIII: Area, 825 acres. Capital value, £420. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £10 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8 8s.

Low hilly country of clay formation, covered with heavy birch bush, with a few pines and light underscrub. Situated nine miles from Korere by dray-road and one mile by unformed road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Powers delegated to the Silverstream Scenic Board under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule below (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

JOSHUA CHARLESWORTH, Trentham;
WILLIAM BURTT LEES, Heretaunga;
JOHN ANDERSON PIKE, Heretaunga;
PETER ROBERTSON, Upper Hutt;
OSWALD STEPHEN WATKINS, Silverstream;
THE COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS FOR THE WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT (ex officio);

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Silverstream Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, at three o’clock p.m. on the last Friday in the months of January, April, July, and October in each year, 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 Friday, the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, 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.

4. Any four members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a 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 seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

SILVERSTREAM SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 60 acres 3 roods 20 perches, more or less, being part of Section 209, Hutt District, Block IV, Belmont Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by other part of the said Section 209; towards the south-east by the Hutt River; towards the south-west by Section 269, Hutt District; and towards the north-west by Section 19: being all the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 174, folio 197, Wellington Land Registration District.

Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 104 acres 3 roods 27 perches, more or less, being parts of Sections Nos. 269 and 270, Hutt District (Block IV, Belmont Survey District). Bounded towards the north-east by part of Section No. 209, 3956·7 links; towards the south-east by the Hutt River; towards the south by part of Section No. 196, 4250 links; towards the west by other part of said Section No. 270, bearing 41° 35′, 299·3 links, 99° 6′, 1097·6 links, 22° 17′, 965·6 links; thence by other part of said Section No. 269, bearing 22° 17′, 118 links, 326° 51′, 822·5 links, 332° 13′, 616·5 links, 36° 58′, 1145·8 links, and 49° 41′ 45″, 1308·7 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 53872/30, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Trustees for the Tahuna Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto to have control and management of the public cemetery specified in Part II of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Names of Trustees.

LEWIS JOHN BACON.
Percy Clark.
EDWIN SWINBURNE POWELL.
CONRAD FITZGERALD.
ARTHUR STANLEY WARREN.

PART II.

Name of Public Cemetery and Description of Land.

TAHUNA.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres 0 roods 18 perches, more or less, being Section 27, Block XI, Mapara Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section 24, Block XI, Mapara Survey District, 903·3 links; towards the south-east generally by the Mokauiti Road, 170·1 links, 432·8 links, 76·5 links, 318·7 links; towards the south-west by Mokauiti Road aforesaid, 320·2 links; and toward the west by Section 24 aforesaid, 719·8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1726/5, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.