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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 46

(2.) The number of delegates to be elected for any electoral district by stock-owners shall, so far as practicable, bear to seventy the proportion that the number of stock in the district bears to the total number of stock in New Zealand. In computing the numbers of stock for the purposes of this regulation one head of cattle shall be deemed to be equal to four sheep.

(3.) The number of delegates to be elected for any electoral district by sheep-farmers shall, so far as practicable, bear to seventy the proportion that the number of sheep-farmers within the district bears to the total number of sheep-farmers in New Zealand.

6. (1.) Meetings for the election of delegates to the Dominion Conference shall be held in each electoral district, on dates to be fixed by the Board, in the month of July, 1923, and in the same month in each year thereafter.

(2.) At such meetings delegates shall be elected separately by—
(a.) Stock-owners; and
(b.) Sheep-farmers.

(3.) The electors present at any such meeting shall appoint a Chairman, who shall control the election, which shall be by ballot or by show of hands, or otherwise as the meeting may determine.

(4.) The Chairman shall forthwith after the conclusion of the meeting notify the Secretary of the Board of the name, address, and occupation of every delegate duly elected.

(5.) If any question arises as to the validity of the election of any delegate, it shall be determined by the Board, whose decision shall be final. The Board may in any case, if it thinks that the election of any delegates has been irregular, require a fresh election to be held.

7. (1.) The Dominion Conference shall meet in the month of August following the election of the delegates, on a day and at a place to be fixed by the Board.

(2.) At that meeting the Chairman of the Board shall preside. If the Chairman is also an elected delegate, but not otherwise, he shall have a deliberative vote on any question before the Conference. In the case of an equality of votes on any question, he shall have a casting-vote, whether he is an elected delegate or not.

(3.) The Chairman shall submit to the Conference for its consideration the report and balance-sheet of the Board’s operations for the previous year.

8. The delegates assembled at the Dominion Conference shall proceed to elect the producers’ representatives in the manner hereinafter prescribed.

9. (1.) No person shall be eligible for election as a producers’ representative unless he has been nominated by a delegate, and his nomination has been seconded by another delegate, and he has accepted nomination in writing.

(2.) No delegate shall be entitled to nominate more persons for election than the number of producers’ representatives required.

(3.) The form of nomination may be in the form of the Schedule hereto.

10. If no more persons are so nominated as producers’ representatives than are required to fill the vacant positions on the Board they shall be deemed to have been duly elected.

11. (1.) If more persons are so nominated than are required to fill the vacant positions on the Board, the delegates shall elect from their number (by ballot, if necessary) twenty persons as an Election Committee. No candidate for election as a producers’ representative shall be eligible as a member of the Election Committee.

(2.) At such ballot no voting-paper shall be valid unless votes are recorded for the full number of persons required to be elected.

12. (1.) The members of the Election Committee shall meet on the day of their election, or as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, and shall elect by ballot from among the persons duly nominated and eligible the number of producers’ representatives required.

(2.) At such ballot no voting-paper shall be valid unless votes are recorded for the full number of persons required to be elected.

(3.) At the meeting of the Election Committee the Chairman of the Board, or a deputy appointed by him in writing, shall preside, but shall not be entitled to vote unless he has been duly elected a member of the Election Committee.

13. None of the proceedings at any meeting of delegates or at any meeting of the Election Committee shall be invalidated by reason merely of any irregularity in the election or proceedings of delegates or of the Election Committee.

14. The Secretary to the Board shall be the Returning Officer for the purposes of any ballot conducted for the purposes of these regulations by the delegates or by the Election Committee.

15. (1.) If at any ballot under these regulations two or more candidates have received the same number of votes, then, if it is necessary for the purposes of the election to determine their order of preference, and so often thereafter as it may be necessary to determine the order of preference of any candidates, a further ballot shall be taken of those candidates only:

Provided that if no order of preference is indicated with respect to any candidates in two successive ballots, the Chairman shall determine the order of preference by lot.

(2.) Subject to the foregoing provisions, at any election under these regulations the number of candidates required to be elected who have received the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected.

16. The names of the persons who have been selected pursuant to these regulations as producers’ representatives shall be forthwith forwarded to the Minister of Agriculture, and shall by him be submitted to the Governor-General for appointment.

MISCELLANEOUS.

17. The travelling-allowances, fees, or other remuneration of members of the Board shall be such as are from time to time determined by resolution of the Board.

18. Without limiting any authority conferred on the Board by the said Act, the Board shall have power for the purpose of carrying on its business to borrow moneys by way of bank overdraft or otherwise howsoever, and may give as security therefor debentures, mortgages, or other securities charged on any or all of the assets of the Board.

SCHEDULE.

NOMINATION OF PRODUCERS’ REPRESENTATIVE ON NEW ZEALAND MEAT PRODUCERS BOARD.

Candidate—
Name in full:
Address:
Occupation:

Nominated by—
Name:
Address:
Occupation:

Seconded by—
Name:
Address:
Occupation:

Nomination accepted.

[Signature of candidate.]

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

Revoking the Prohibition of the Exportation of Firearms, Gunpowder, Munitions of War, and Warlike Stores from New Zealand to Samoa.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of June, 1922.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council made on the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and gazetted on the twenty-eighth day of February then instant, which prohibited to the extent specified therein the exportation of firearms, gunpowder, munitions of war, and warlike stores from New Zealand to Samoa.

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

Revoking the Prohibition of the Importation of Cornsacks.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of June, 1922.

Present:

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-six of the