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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Owhango Public Hall and Library Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of September, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in Gazette of the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ten, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall and library: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section two of the Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act, 1914, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

Charles Joseph Brown,
William O'Donnell,
Henry William Christian,
Thomas Harvey,
William Jeremiah Hartley,
Samuel Richard Johnson, and
Alexander Watson,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Owhango Public Hall and Library 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 on the second Thursday of each month at seven-thirty o'clock p.m. at the Owhango Public Hall, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Thursday, the fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

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 be 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 three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. 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 of such meeting.

6. 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.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

8. The Board shall have prepared and submitted at an annual meeting 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 of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve and the building erected thereon, for the purposes of a public hall and library, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Owhango and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said hall as may from time to time be determined by the Board; provided that the Board shall have power to fix reasonable charges for the use of the said hall.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Section 17, Block I, Town of Owhango: Area, 1 rood.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Waitomo County Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of September, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been permanently reserved for a site for a roadman's cottage: And whereas it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Waitomo County:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Waitomo County, in trust, for a site for a roadman's cottage.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Section 8, Block III, Maungamangero Survey District: Area, 15 acres 2 roods.

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

Hares to cease to be Imported Game in the Feilding Acclimatization District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that on and from the date hereof hares shall cease to be included in the Second Schedule of the said Act with respect to the Feilding Acclimatization District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of August, 1923.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Change of the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Borough of Ashburton, Canterbury Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), the Governor-General is empowered, in the case of any public reserve vested in His Majesty or the Governor-General for any of the purposes comprised in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for railway-conservation purposes, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, and it is expedient to change, as hereinafter provided, the purpose of such portion:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section six of the said Act as aforesaid, declare that the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for railway-conservation purposes to a reserve for the development of water-power (Lake Coleridge scheme). And I do hereby further declare that this notice is issued subject to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and shall take effect according to the provisions of that section.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods, more or less, and being Reserve No. 4073 (formerly part of Reserve 1923), situated in the Borough of Ashburton. Commencing at a point on the north-western end of Dobson Street, the same being distant 86·3 links from the most western corner of the said street; thence bounded by other part of said Reserve 1923 by lines bearing 290° 11′ 30″, 250 links, 19° 41′ 30″, 569·7 links, 96° 34′, 256·7 links; and towards the south-east by part of Kermode and Dobson Streets and a closed road, now Reserve 772x, 630·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more