MAR. 16.| THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. | 685
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board | ment Act, 1921–22, applies the following procedure shall
by the name of the Pongaroa Scenic Board (herein referred to | be followed:
(a.) The petitioner shall give to the respondent not less
as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, | than twenty-one days’ notice in writing of the motion to
and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter | make the decree nisi absolute.
contained, that is to say,--
(b.) If the respondent has not entered an appearance in

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Wed- | the cause, and it is impossible or difficult to effect service
   nesday, the fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred | of the notice on the respondent personally, the petitioner
   and twenty-two, at eight o'clock p.m., in the Public Hall, | shall apply to the Court or a Judge in Chambers for directions
   Pongaroa, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the | as to service.
   transaction of business on the first Wednesday in each | (c.) If the respondent intends to oppose the making of the
   quarter at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other | decree nisi absolute he or she shall give to the petitioner
   time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. | at least ten clear days’ notice in writing of such intention,
2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, | and shall state in such notice the grounds of opposition and
   and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, | shall give therein full particulars of the alleged wrongful
   elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in | acts or conduct on the part of the petitioner on which the
   the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting | respondent relies.
   vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of | (d.) Where such notice as aforesaid has been given by
   his successor. | the respondent, the parties shall attend on the day fixed
3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, | for the hearing of the motion or so soon thereafter as counsel
   provided that two days’ notice of such meeting is given to | can be heard to obtain a fixture for hearing oral evidences
   each member, specifying the business to be transacted at | in connection with the motion.
   such special meeting; and no other business than that so | Given under our hands this 27th day of February, 1922.
   specified shall be transacted at such meeting. | ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
4. Any five members of the Board shall form a quorum. | W. A. SIM, J.
   Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time. | J. H. HOSKING, J.
5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of | T. W. STRINGER, J.
   votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting. | A. L. HERDMAN, J.
6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the | Approved in Council.
   time appointed for holding the same, the members present | F. D. THOMSON,
   shall choose one of their number to be Chairman for such | Clerk of the Executive Council.
   meeting.
7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the | Ranger under the Animals Protection Act appointed.
   seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any | Department of Internal Affairs,
   member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from | Wellington, 13th March, 1922.
   three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor- | HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
   General shall have power to appoint any other person to be | to appoint
   a member of the Board in his stead.
8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meet-
   ing to be held in the month of April in each year a report of | HENRY RICHARD PIKE
   the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending | a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the
   on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement | Waimarino District.
   of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. | W. FRASER,
   A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the | For Minister of Internal Affairs.
   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.
   PONGAROA SCENIC RESERVE.-WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
   SECTIONS 1 to 12, Block IV, Town of Pongaroa : Area, 5 acres
   I rood 35 perches.
   Also Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, Block VII, Town of
   Pongaroa : Area, 2 acres 3 roods 11 perches.
   Also part of Section 5 and Sections 6 to 16 inclusive, Block
   XII ; parts of Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and Sections 11, 13,
   and part Section 14, Block XIII, part Section 16 and Sections
   14 and 18 to 24 inclusive, Block IX, Town of Pongaroa;
   Section 14, Suburbs of Pongaroa; and roads within the
   above area stopped by Proclamation dated 18th February,
   1908, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of
   the 20th February, 1908, page 608 : Area, 48 acres 1 rood
   13 perches.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
   General, this 10th day of March, 1922.
   D. H. GUTHRIE,
   Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
   Additional Rules under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
   Act, 1908.
   JELLICOE, Governor-General.
   WE, the undersigned Judges of the Supreme Court of
   New Zealand, of whom the Chief Justice is one, in
   pursuance and exercise of the powers for this purpose
   conferred on us by the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
   Act, 1908, do hereby make the following rules, to come
   into operation on the sixteenth day of March, one thousand
   nine hundred and twenty-two.
   RULES.
10. RULE 51 of the rules made under the above-mentioned
    Honours conferred by His Majesty the King.
    Department of Internal Affairs,
    Wellington, 14th March, 1922.
    HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs the publica-
    tion in the New Zealand Gazette of the notification of
    the honours conferred by His Majesty the King as follows:
    Knight Bachelor-
    James Hugh Buchanan Coates, Esq., of the City of
    Wellington.
    John Ross, Esq., of the City of Dunedin.
    C.M.G.
    James Henry Gunson, Esq., C.B.E., Mayor of the City
    of Auckland.
    G. JAS. ANDERSON,
    For Minister of Internal Affairs.
    Ranger under the Animals Protection Act and Officer under
    Part II of the Fisheries Act appointed.
    Department of Internal Affairs,
    Wellington, 14th March, 1922.
    HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
    to appoint
    CHARLES TOMLIN
    a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the
    Waimate Acclimatization District, and an Officer under
    Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.
    G. JAS. ANDERSON,
    For Minister of Internal Affairs.
    Consul for the Republic of Poland at Sydney appointed.
    Department of Internal Affairs,
    Wellington, 14th March, 1922.
    HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
    notified that he has been informed by His Majesty's
    Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King's Exequatur
    empowering NONIDES EARP to act as Consul-General for the
    Republic of Poland at Sydney, with jurisdiction over New
    Zealand, received His Majesty's signature on the 20th ultimo.
    G. JAS. ANDERSON,
    For Minister of Internal Affairs.
    Act on the 15th day of December, 1910, is hereby amended
    by substituting six clear days for the period of three clear
    days mentioned in that rule.
11. In every case to which the provisions of subsection (3)
    of section 2 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Amend-