Mar. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 743

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 make the amendments set forth in the Schedule hereto in the regulations made by Order in Council dated twenty-seventh February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, prescribing the method of conducting the election of members of the General Council of Education; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

1. CLAUSE 9 of the regulations is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “advertisement,” the words “in the New Zealand Gazette.”

2. Clause 10 of the regulations is hereby revoked.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Kaponga Town Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of March, 1924.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for municipal purposes. And whereas it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Kaponga Town Board:

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 Kaponga Town Board, in trust, for municipal purposes.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 19, Kaponga Village, Block XI, Kaupokonui Survey District: Area, 1 acre.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £12,500 proposed to be raised by the Mataura Borough Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of March, 1924.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Mataura Borough Council, acting under and in pursuance of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan of twelve thousand five hundred pounds for the construction of waterworks:

And whereas the notice of the deposit of the special roll of the proposed special-rating area is irregular in that it did not specify the period for which the roll was open for inspection and that objections thereto could be lodged not later than seven days after the last day on which the roll was so deposited:

And whereas the notice of intention to borrow, although published four times, was not published in accordance with the requirements of section nine of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularities or defects, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings taken to raise the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the notice of the deposit of the special roll and of the intention to borrow has been correctly given, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Dunsandel Public Library Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of March, 1924.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart for a site for a public 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,—

Fred Lill,
Hugh Allan Brown,
Frank Edward Owers,
Ernest John Chatterton,
Charles Alexander Wright,
Charles Millard Sheat,
John Henry Skinner,
John Walker, and
Albert James Sheat,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Dunsandel Public 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 fourth Monday of each month at eight o’clock p.m. at the Dunsandel Public Library, 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 Monday, the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

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 a 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,