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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purposes of water-power works, portion of such land being occupied by buildings and an orchard.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land permitted to be taken:—

A. R. P. Being Portion of
1 0 13·5 Sections 171 and 170, Waimea East; coloured edged purple.
0 0 5·6 Section 170, Waimea East; coloured dark brown.
2 0 16 Section 172, Waimea East; coloured edged yellow.

Situated in Block X, Waimea Survey District.

In the Nelson Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 55257, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations under the Board of Agriculture Act, 1913.—Notice No. 2238.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1922.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by the Board of Agriculture Act, 1913, 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 of the twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, making regulations for the purposes of the said Act, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations.

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REGULATIONS.

1. IN these regulations—

“Board” means the Board of Agriculture:

“Society” means a society incorporated under the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1908.

2. The manner in which societies may recommend persons for appointment as members of the Board shall be as follows:—

(1.) The North Island shall for the purposes of these regulations be divided into four districts, having the names and boundaries set forth under the heading of North Island in the First Schedule hereto; and the South Island shall similarly be divided into four districts as set forth in the said Schedule under the heading of South Island. One member of the Board may be appointed on the recommendation of such of the societies as have their headquarters in each of the said districts.

(2.) The societies specified as Metropolitan Societies in the said Schedule shall for the purposes of these regulations be deemed to be the Metropolitan Societies for their respective districts.

(3.) The Director-General of Agriculture (hereinafter called the “Director-General”) shall, not later than the 21st day of January in the year 1923, and not later than the same date in every third year thereafter, send by registered post to the President (hereinafter called “the Metropolitan President”) of the Metropolitan Society in each of the said districts a list giving the names of all the societies having their headquarters within the district of such Metropolitan Society and which were incorporated on or before the 31st day of December next preceding the issue of the said list.

In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Board the Director-General shall as soon as possible issue in like manner a similar list in respect of the district whose representation has ceased by reason of the said vacancy.

(4.) The Metropolitan President in each district shall, not later than the last day of January aforesaid, send by registered post to the President of each of the societies named in the said list a notice (in the form set out in the Second Schedule hereto) advising each society that it may send a delegate or delegates to a meeting to be held for the purpose of recommending persons for appointment by the Governor-General to the Board, and calling for nominations for such appointment to be sent in to the Metropolitan President not later than the last day of February.

Every such delegate shall be a member of the society appointing him.

(5.) The Metropolitan President shall send to the President of each of the aforesaid societies, not later than the 9th day of March, a list of the nominees referred to in the preceding subclause, and shall also at the same time advise the societies of the date on which the meeting shall be held to elect a representative on the Board, such advice to be sent out at least twenty-one clear days before the meeting.

(6.) The meeting shall be held at such convenient centre in the district as may be decided upon by the Metropolitan President, and the notice shall give full particulars of the place and time at which the meeting will be held.

(7.) In the event of no nomination being forwarded to the Metropolitan President as provided in subclause (4) hereof, a representative shall be nominated by the meeting of delegates.

(8.) The Metropolitan President shall be the delegate or one of the delegates of the Metropolitan Society at the said meeting, of which he shall be Chairman, and he may exercise thereat a casting-vote in addition to a deliberative vote.

(9.) The voting at the said meeting shall be by ballot, and, except as provided in subclause (12) hereof, every delegate of a society may exercise one vote and no more.

(10.) No person except the delegates of societies named in the list supplied as aforesaid by the Director-General shall speak or vote at the said meeting, and every delegate shall before speaking or voting produce to the satisfaction of the Metropolitan President a document signed by the President or Secretary of his society certifying that the delegate has been duly appointed by the said society to attend the said meeting, and setting out the number of financial members comprised in the said society on the 31st day of December next preceding the date of the meeting.

(11.) Every society advised as hereinbefore provided to be represented at any such meeting may send thereto one or more delegates according to the number of its financial members as stated in the certificate referred to in the last preceding subclause.

The number of such delegates shall not exceed the following scale:—

400 members or under . . . . 1 delegate.
Over 400 members and not over 800 . . 2 delegates.
,, 800 ,, 1,200 . . 3 ,,
,, 1,200 members . . . . 4 ,,

(12.) If any society fails to send to any such meeting the full number of delegates corresponding to the membership of the society, the delegate or delegates sent by the society may exercise the full number of votes which the whole of the delegates of the society would have been entitled to exercise if present at the meeting.

(13.) At the time and place appointed for any such meeting the Metropolitan President shall, if more than one person is nominated to be recommended to the Governor-General for appointment to the said Board, take a vote as between the said persons.

In the event of there being more than one candidate, a ballot or ballots shall be taken, and the candidate at each ballot polling the lowest number of votes shall retire until—

(a.) One candidate receives an absolute majority, when he shall be declared elected; or

(b.) Only two candidates remain, in which case a further ballot shall be taken, and the one who receives a majority of votes shall be declared elected.

(14.) The Metropolitan President shall within three days after the said meeting notify to the Minister of Agriculture by registered letter the names of all persons so nominated, and if a vote has been taken, the number of votes cast for each. The persons so nominated shall thereupon be deemed to have been recommended to the Governor-General in the order indicated by the number of votes cast for each.

3. Subject to the provisions of clause 5 hereof, each member of the said Board shall when absent from home on the business of the Board be entitled to a refund of his expenses of locomotion, and to a travelling-allowance of thirty shillings for each day or part of a day during which he is so absent.

4. The Board may, subject to the written concurrence of the Minister of Agriculture, set up one or more temporary special committees, consisting wholly or partly of persons not members of the Board, to inquire into and report to the Board upon any specified matter or matters.

5. Excepting in the case of his locomotion expenses and travelling-allowances in connection with attendance at meetings of the Board, no member of the said Board shall incur any charge against the public funds without first obtaining the written authority of the Minister of Agriculture.