New Zealand Gazette – 1922 – No. 65

Page 2334

✨ Government Appointments and Notices

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Silverstream
Scenic Board.

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 hereto (being land
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,

THE COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS FOR THE WELL-
INGTON LAND DISTRICT, ex officio,
Joshua CHARLESWORTH,
WILLIAM BURTT LEES,
JOHN ANDERSON PIKE, and
PETER ROBERTSON,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Silverstream Scenic 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,--

The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Tuesday,
the twelfth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-two, at three o'clock p.m., in the Wellington District
Lands and Survey Office, Wellington; and thereafter the
Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the
second Tuesday in each quarter at the time and place afore-
said, or at such other time or place as may from time to time
be fixed by the Board.
The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chair-
man of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall
have an original as well as a casting vote.
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.
Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum.
Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
All questions shall be determined by the majority of
votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.
If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the
time appointed for holding the same, the members present
shall choose one of their number to be Chairman for such
meeting.
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.
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
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.
The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance
with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

SILVERSTREAM SCENIC RESERVE.--WELLINGTON LAND
DISTRICT.

PART Section 209, Hutt District, Block IV, Belmont Survey
District : Area, 60 acres 3 roods 20 perches.

Also parts Sections 269 and 270, Hutt District, Block IV,
Belmont Survey District : Area, 104 acres 3 roods 27 perches.

As the same are more particularly described in the Warrant
dated the 21st day of January, 1919, and published in the
Gazette of the 30th day of that month.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 26th day of August, 1922.

W. FRASER,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation

Appointment of Honorary Consul of Japan at Auckland
recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th August, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that, in accordance with instructions from
His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has
recognized provisionally, pending the receipt of the Exequatur,
the appointment of

A. B. ROBERTON, Esq.,
as Honorary Consul of Japan at Auckland.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment as Ranger under the Animals Protection and
Game Act, 1921-22.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, William Downie
Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM THIRWELL ROUTLEDGE, of Kawakawa,
to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Bay of Islands
Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 22nd day of
August, 1922.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th August, 1922.