Dec. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4501

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 first meeting of the Board shall be held on Saturday,
   the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred
   and seventeen, at seven o'clock p.m., in the Tripp School-
   house, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction
   of business on the first Saturday in each month at the time
   and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may
   from time to time be fixed by the Board.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting,
   and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned,
   elect one of themselves to be chairman, who may join in the
   discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting
   vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his
   successor.

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 speci-
   fied shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any three 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 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-
   General 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 meet-
   ing 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.

ORARI GORGE SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing
by admeasurement 197 acres 2 roods, more or less, being
Reserve 3811, Block XII, Four Peaks Survey District.
Bounded towards the east generally by a road-line and Lot 4,
Tripp Settlement ; towards the south by the road forming the
northern boundary of Lot 5, Tripp Settlement, and Rural
Section 3968, and by Lot 23, Tripp Settlement ; towards the
west by Lot 23 aforesaid ; and towards the north by Station
Creek. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and
S. 387/22, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this tenth day of December, one thou-
sand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

Members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand
Institute appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th December, 1917.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has
been pleased to appoint

Dr. JAMES ALLAN THOMSON, and
BERNARD CRACROFT ASTON, Esq.,
to be members of the Board of Governors of the New Zea-
land Institute as constituted by the New Zealand Institute
Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Raurimu Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 11th December, 1917.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains
Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint
THOMAS EDWIN BEAVEN
to be a member of the Raurimu Domain Board, in the place
of Benjamin Lenord Knight, who has resigned.
F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Licensing Officer under Arms Act, 1908, appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 11th December, 1917.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Constable ERNEST HENRY TURNER
of the New Zealand Police Force, to be a Licensing Officer
under the Arms Act, 1908.
A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister in Charge of Police Department.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th December, 1917.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to accept the resignation by
JOHN MILLS, of Paraparaumu, and
THOMAS BENJAMIN SALMON, of Blenheim,
of their appointment as Justices of the Peace for New
Zealand.
THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Police-gaoler appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th December, 1917.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Constable ERNEST HENRY TURNER
to be Police-gaoler at Russell, on and from the 28th day of
November, 1917, vice Constable MacLean, transferred.
THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Inspectors for the Purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection
Act appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 10th December, 1917.
THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service :—
ARTHUR ELLIOTT RAMSAY,
WILLIAM RUSSELL,
EDGAR OSWALD WILLIS,
JAMES ROGER,
THOMAS DONALDSON URQUHART,
WILLIAM RICHARD LEWIS,
PETER ALBERT THOMSON,
JAMES ARTHUR CHENERY,
JAMES FORSTER,
JAMES HAIGH,
ROBERT DOUGLASS,
to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Slaughtering and
Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of December, 1917.
P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1917.
IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons
have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars