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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of
   votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

8. The Board shall have prepared and submitted 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 31st 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
   of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve and the building
   erected thereon for the purposes of a public hall, and shall
   also afford settlers and residents of Raurimu and the surrounding
   district such facilities for meeting within the said
   hall as may from time to time be determined by the Board;
   provided that the Board shall have power to fix reasonable
   charges for the use of the said hall.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
by admeasurement 31 perches, more or less, being Section 7,
Block II, Raurimu Township. Bounded towards the north-west
by Section 6, 282 links ; towards the north-east by
the Waiouru-Taumarunui Road, 75 links ; towards the south-east
by Section 8, 250 links ; and towards the south-west
by Crown land, 81·5 links : be all the aforesaid linkages
more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked
L. 1911/1641, deposited in the Head Office, Department
of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered
red.

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

Warrant vesting Control of the Waipukurau Bridge in the
Patangata County Council, and apportioning Cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the same.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of the
Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter called "the
said Act ") it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor-General
may, by warrant under his hand publicly notified and gazetted,
direct that any bridge already constructed, or which may be
hereafter constructed, over or across any river or arm of the
sea respectively shall, from and after a date fixed in such
Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management
of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that
behalf in such Warrant; and may by any such Warrant as
aforesaid fix and determine whether all or any, and if so what,
part of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter
to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, improving, or
reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid
by any local authority or local authorities ; and may by
any such Warrant as aforesaid direct how, when, and to
whom any such payment is to be made :

And whereas by the said section one hundred and twenty
it is, inter alia, provided that the Governor-General may,
with a view of determining what proportion (if any) of the
cost of maintaining any work should be borne by any local
authority or local authorities, direct any Magistrate or other
person to be a Commissioner to inquire into and report to
him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to
enable him to determine any such question aforesaid :

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose
aforesaid, and an inquiry duly held :

And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor-
General, after due inquiry, his opinion thereon :

And whereas the Governor-General is of opinion that it is
equitable that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving,
or reconstructing the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto
should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportions
hereinafter respectively set forth :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl
of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authori-
ties vested in me by the said Act, and of every other power
and authority in anyway enabling me in this behalf, do
hereby direct that the bridge described in the Schedule
hereto and known as the Waipukurau Bridge (hereinafter
called "the said bridge") shall, from and after the date of
this Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and
management of the Patangata County Council ; and, in
further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do
hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining,
repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge (less
any contribution, if any, which may be made by the Government)
shall be provided and paid by the local authorities
hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions—viz.,
the Waipawa County Council shall pay thirty-five per centum,
the Patangata County Council shall pay twenty-five per
centum, the Waipukurau County Council shall pay twenty-five
per centum, and the Waipukurau Borough Council shall
pay fifteen per centum of such cost respectively :

And I do hereby direct that the contributions hereby
required to be made as aforesaid by the Waipawa County
Council, Waipukurau County Council, and the Waipukurau
Borough Council towards the cost of maintaining, repairing,
improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be paid
from time to time, in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed,
out of the funds of the said County and Borough Councils
within a period of one month after demand in writing made
by or on behalf of the Clerk of the Patangata County Council,
and the payments so required to be made shall be made from
time to time to the Clerk of the Patangata County Council
for and on behalf of the said County and Borough Councils.

And I hereby cancel and annul the Warrant dated the
twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred
and ten, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 95,
page 3828, of the twenty-seventh day of the same month,
vesting control of the said bridge and apportioning the cost
of maintenance.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Tukituki River known as the Wai-
pukurau Bridge, situated on the main road between Wai-
pukurau and Waipawa. As the site of the said bridge is
more particularly delineated on the plain marked P.W.D.
27606, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured yellow.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this twenty-third day of August, one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Trustee for the Wanganui Racecourse appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th August, 1918.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

CHARLES EVAN MACKAY
to be a trustee of the Wanganui Racecourse, under an Act
of the Wellington Provincial Council intituled the Wanga-
nui and Rangitikei Racecourses Act, 1862, vice Alexander
Hatrick, deceased.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Westland Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th August, 1918.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

WILLIAM CLAYTON
to be a member of the Westland Land Board.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Aratapu Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 27th August, 1918.

His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains
Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint

STANLEY MARTIN SIMMONS
to be a member of the Aratapu Domain Board, in the place
of Anthony Keane, who has resigned.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.