Aug. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2157

Opening Settlement Land in Otago Land District for Selection.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and amendments, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.
SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.
Kelso Settlement.—Tuapeka County.—Greenvale Survey District.
SECTION 3s: Area, 143 acres; capital value, £2,760 (buildings, £35*) ; half-yearly rent, £62 2s.

• Payable in cash.
  The improvements included in the capital value of the section consist of boundary and subdivisional fences valued at £111 17s.
  The improvements not included in the capital value, but which have to be paid for separately, are: Yards and dip, £10; also hut on sledge (nearest stable), now on Allotment 5s, £25. Total valuation for buildings, £35, payable in cash. The hut must be removed by the lessee of Section 3s and re-erected on his allotment at his own expense.
  This property lies about three miles from Heriot Township, and about the same distance from Kelso. It is practically level. Access by good roads. The soil is a black loam on a good subsoil. It is capable of growing good oats, roots, and grass.
  As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of August, 1921.
  D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the North Auckland Land District for other Land.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, as amended by section six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange, and has agreed to pay to the Crown a sum of money by way of equality of exchange:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the area of land described in the Second Schedule, upon payment by the owner thereof of the sum of money hereinbefore referred to by way of equality of exchange.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF CROWN LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.
ALL those areas in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 39 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Sections 5 and 6, Block III, Waioneke Survey District. As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/2954, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 26 acres 1 rood 33 perches, more or less, being Section 7, Block III, Waioneke Survey District.
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As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/2954, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered blue.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of August, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.
Powers delegated to the Pukaahu Hot Springs Board under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule below (being land reserved under the said Act), for five years from the date of this notice (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely:-
WALTER REID, Taneatua;
Patrick Keegan, Taneatua;
George Johnson Murray, Te Teko;
John Moffat Turnbull, Whakatane;
Adolph Monod Feist, Awakeri; and
William Richards Boon, Whakatane;
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Pukaahu Hot Springs Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), 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 the County Council Office, Whakatane, on the second Monday in the months of January, April, July, and October in each year, at two 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 two o'clock p.m. on Monday, the tenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.
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 four 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 the regulations made thereunder, and may make special by-laws regulating the use of the springs and fixing charges for the use thereof. Such by-laws shall come into operation upon being approved by the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
   SCHEDULE.
   ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 3 roods 38 perches, more or less, being portion of Section 12, Rangitaiki Parish, in Block VII, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 611, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. Bounded on the north-east, south-east, and south-west by other part of said Section 12, and on the north-west by a public road.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of August, 1921.
   D. H. GUTHRIE,
   Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.