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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1915.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1915.

Regulations under Section 28 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1914.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-second day of February, 1915.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-eight of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as “the said section”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time make regulations for the purpose therein specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said section, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. Upon application being made to him by or on behalf of the Wellington Industrial Development Company (Limited), the Under-Secretary for Lands shall fix a time and place for the holding of a meeting of owners of Native land within any area proposed to be proclaimed a rating-area, as described in the petition presented to the Governor for that purpose under subsection (1) of the said section, and shall proceed to call such meeting by notice published in the Gazette and Kahiti at least twenty-one days before the time appointed for the holding of the meeting.

2. A Judge of the Native Land Court, to be nominated by the Chief Judge of such Court on the application of the Under-Secretary for Lands, shall preside as Chairman of such meeting and conduct the business thereof. The Chairman shall be allowed to speak and advise the meeting as to what in his opinion is the proper course to take under any particular circumstances.

3. An owner may appoint a proxy (who shall be interested in Native land in the proposed rating-area) by writing under his hand, in the form prescribed for use at the meeting of assembled owners under the Native Land Act, 1909, attested by some person authorized by such Act to attest the will of a Native. Such proxy shall not be available except by leave of the Chairman of the meeting, and shall be handed in to the Chairman previous to the commencement of the meeting.

4. At such meeting fifteen owners present or represented thereat shall constitute a quorum.

5. If at any time and place appointed for the meeting or within one hour thereafter a quorum is not present, or for any reason the meeting cannot be held at that time, it shall stand adjourned to such time and place as the Chairman if present appoints, and if he is not present, then it shall stand adjourned from day to day at the same time and place until the fourteenth day thereafter, when the meeting if not held shall lapse.

6. Any meeting may be adjourned by the Chairman to such time and place as the Chairman appoints.

7. The Chairman shall call for a show of hands for and against any resolution proposed at the meeting. If no one votes against the resolution the resolution shall be deemed to be carried unanimously. Where some of the owners or their representatives vote against the resolution the Chairman shall ascertain whether the voting is in favour of or against the resolution, according to the number of owners voting for or against the same, and shall declare accordingly whether the resolution is carried or not.

8. Every such resolution when carried shall be reduced to writing, and signed by the Chairman, and shall be transmitted by him, together with a report of the proceedings of such meeting, to the Minister of Lands.

9. All costs and expenses incurred by or under the direction of the Under-Secretary for Lands aforesaid of and incidental to the holding of the said meeting shall be paid by the said company, and such Under-Secretary shall determine the amount thereof, and may require payment of the same before calling a meeting under Regulation 1 hereof.

10. The provisions of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, shall, except where otherwise provided by these regulations and so far as they are applicable, apply to all meetings held under these regulations.

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

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.