Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2337

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Everett Road Scenic Board.

ROBERT STOUT.
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule below (being lands reserved under the said Act), for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

ALBERT EDWARD BURWELL, of Kaimata.
WILLIAM EDWARD PERCIVAL,
WALTER BAZIRE MESSENGER, and
JOHN ROBSON GRAY SUTHERLAND, all of Inglewood,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Everett Road Scenic Reserves Board (herein referred 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 Board shall meet for the transaction of business at Messrs. Percival and Messenger’s Office at Inglewood on the third Saturday in the months of January, April, July, and October in each year, at eight o’clock p.m., or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held at eight o’clock p.m. on Saturday, the twenty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

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 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. 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 some 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 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 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.

EVERETT ROAD SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 166 acres, being the whole of Sections 13, 18, and 19 of Block XIII, Waitara Survey District, and bounded as follows :—

Section 13 (northern portion), containing by admeasurement 46 acres 3 roods, more or less. Bounded on the north by Section 182, Block XIV, Waitara Survey District, 2008 links; on the east generally by River Bank Road; on the south by road, 635·8 links; and on the west by Everett Road, 3014·7 and 757·2 links.

Section 13 (southern portion), containing by admeasurement 20 acres 1 rood, more or less. Bounded on the north by a road, 747 links; on the east generally by River Bank Road; and on the south and west by Everett Road, 189, 356·8, and 1201 links.

Sections 18 and 19, containing by admeasurement 99 acres, more or less. Bounded on the north and east generally by River Bank Road; on the south generally by Bristol Road, 3520 links; and on the west by Everett Road, 3798·2, 95·8, 853·5, and 2112·5 links.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S. 39502, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 28th day of July, 1920.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act appointed for Rotorua District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS HENRY HULTON

to be a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Acclimatization District of Rotorua, vice Thomas Henry Fulton, appointment cancelled.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Trustee under the Peninsula County Libraries Act, 1877, appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th August, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

JOHN JAMES MACARTNEY

to be a trustee under the Peninsula County Libraries Act, 1877, in place of John Macartney, deceased.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation by

GEORGE BRUCE DALL, Esq.,

of Wellington, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Visiting Justices appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 27th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM BARRETT, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Visiting Justice to the Borstal Institution, Invercargill; and

JULIUS ADOLPH ALBERT CÆSAR, Esq.,

to be a Visiting Justice to the Paparua Prison, Templeton.

J. G. COATES,
Minister in Charge of Prisons Department.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 31st July, 1920.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Administrator of the Government has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

IAN AUGUSTINE MACKAY,

of Lower Hutt, Wellington, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act.

W. H. HERRIES, Minister of Marine.

Native Interpreters appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to authorize

WILLIAM HENRY BIRD, Jun., of Murupara,

to act as a licensed Native Interpreter of the First Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

HENRY JAMES FLETCHER, of Taupo,

to act as a licensed Native Interpreter of the Second Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

W. H. HERRIES, Native Minister.