Mar. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 945

Apportionment of Representation and Election of Representatives on the Bay of Plenty and Tauranga Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of March, 1918.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1917, the Bay of Plenty Hospital District and the Tauranga Hospital District were constituted: And whereas by the said section it is further enacted that the Boards of the said hospital districts shall consist respectively of such number of representatives of the contributory districts within the said hospital districts as the Governor-General by Order in Council from time to time determines, and that the first election of members of the said Boards shall be held on such date as the Governor-General by Order in Council appoints, and that the Governor-General may make all such provisions as are deemed necessary for the purpose of that election:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, doth hereby determine that the number of representatives of each of the contributory districts within the aforesaid hospital district shall be as set forth in the Schedule hereto; and the first election of such representatives shall be held on Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, with the exception that the present representatives on the Bay of Plenty Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the contributory districts of Whakatane Borough and Opotiki Borough continue to represent such districts on the Bay of Plenty Hospital District until the next ordinary general election of members of Borough Councils; and doth hereby direct that the regulations made in the Order in Council dated the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, shall, as far as applicable, apply as if incorporated in this Order in Council.

SCHEDULE.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Dates for the Election and First Meeting of the Tauranga Harbour Board and appointing Principal Authority for Combined District Election.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section six of the Tauranga Harbour Act, 1917, to appoint Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, to be the date for the election of the first members of the Tauranga Harbour Board, and Thursday, the second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, at ten o’clock a.m., to be the date and time, and the Coronation Hall, Spring Street, Tauranga, to be the place, for the first meeting of the said Board; and has also, in pursuance of the provisions of section seven of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, selected and appointed the Tauranga County Council to be the principal authority for the purposes of the election of two members of the said Board by the electors of the Maketu and Te Puke Ridings of the County of Tauranga, and the electors of the Te Puke Town District.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.