FEB. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days' notice of any such meeting is 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 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 Hamua 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 1 rood, more or less, being Subdivision J No. 4c, Mangatainoka Block (Block XIV, Mangahao Survey District), commencing at a point on the western side of the main road from Eketahuna, 301·3 links, in a south-westerly direction from the junction of the said road with the Hukanui Road; bounded towards the north-east by Subdivision J No. 4F, Mangatainoka Block, 250 links; towards the north-west by the same subdivision, 100 links; towards the south-west by the same subdivision, 250 links; and towards the south-east by the above-mentioned main road to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 56981/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £2,000 proposed to be raised by the Mount Roskill Road Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of February, 1918.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the Mount Roskill Road Board lately proposed to raise a loan of two thousand pounds under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of carrying out certain improvements in its system of water-supply:

And whereas an irregularity or defect occurred in the voting-paper used at the poll upon the said proposal, in that the term of the said loan (namely, thirty-six years and a half) was not set forth in such voting-paper:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the term of the said loan had been stated in the said voting-paper, and that the proceedings shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

B

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day of February, 1918.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve, and parts of the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 3, Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2, Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension, and Opoe Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2, described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

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 power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve, and parts of the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 3, Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension, and Opoe Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2 described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAIA KAURI-GUM RESERVE.

All that area, containing 1,000 acres, more or less, situated in Block I, Rangaunu Survey District, being the whole of the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated the 20th December, 1898, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st December, 1898. Bounded towards the north by the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 3; towards the east by the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2; towards the south by the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension; and towards the west by the Opoe Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/1156A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey; at Wellington, and thereon edged yellow.

PART OTAIA KAURI-GUM RESERVE EXTENSION No. 3.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 930 acres, more or less, situated in Block I, Rangaunu Survey District, and being part of the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 3, set apart by Order in Council dated the 10th July, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th July, 1899. Bounded towards the west by the western boundary of Block I, Rangaunu Survey District; towards the north generally by the northern edge of the Otaia Swamp to a point due north of the northern corner of Section 3, Block I, aforesaid; towards the east by a right line due south to the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2; and towards the south by the last-mentioned reserve and the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/1156A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

PART OTAIA KAURI-GUM RESERVE EXTENSION No. 2.

Also all that area, containing 560 acres, more or less, situated in Block I, Rangaunu Survey District, being part of the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2, set apart by Order in Council dated the 12th April, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th April, 1899. Bounded, commencing at a point on the northern boundary of the aforesaid Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 3 due north of the northern corner of Section 3, Block I, aforesaid, towards the east by a right line to the aforesaid corner of Section 3; towards the south-east by Sections 3, 2, and 1, Block I, and Section 9, Block IV, aforesaid; towards the west by the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve; and towards the north by the Otaia Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 3 to the point of commencement. As the same is delineated on