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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

9. The Board shall control the said reserve and the building erected thereon for the purposes of a public library, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Dunsandel and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the library building 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 building.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 28 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 4103, Block VIII, Selwyn Survey District, and being all the land contained in Conveyance No. 39961, formerly Lot 11 of deeds index plan No. 4/24, and bounded as follows: Towards the north-east and south-east by Lots 10, 9, 8, and 12 of the aforesaid plan, 220 links and 161·5 links respectively; and towards the south-west by a public road, 373·25 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3370, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Taihape Scenic Reserves 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 reserves 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,—

George Bray,
Arthur Russell Fannin,
Robert John Loughnan,
William John Hall McCormick, and
David Neagle,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Taihape Scenic Reserves 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,—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Friday, the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, at half past five o’clock p.m., at the office of Messrs. Arrowsmith and Loughnan, Taihape, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Friday in each month at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

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 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.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting 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.

9. The Board shall control the said reserves in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

TAIHAPE SCENIC RESERVES.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 154 acres 3 roods 8 perches, being part of Section 62, Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District. As the same is more particularly described in the Schedule to a Proclamation published in Gazette of the 21st day of February, 1918, page 554.

Section 63, Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District: Area, 1 acre 1 rood.

Section 64, Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District: Area, 40 acres 3 roods.

Section 79, Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District: Area, 1 acre 0 roods 20 perches.

Section 80, Block XIV, Ohinewairua Survey District: Area, 4 acres 0 roods 11 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of March, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Cancelling the Reservation for Police Purposes over Section 72, Town of Denniston, Nelson Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by subsection one of section eighty-one of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies’ Empowering Act, 1923, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby cancel the reservation as a reserve for police purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 72, Town of Denniston: Area, 1 rood 12·7 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of March, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Wellington Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart for purposes of the Marine Department or other purposes of the General Government, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and such land is not vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustee:

And whereas it is expedient that such land should be appropriated for a public recreation-ground, being a purpose within Class III of the said Second Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the eleventh section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do by this notification declare that the said land shall, from and after the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, be appropriated for a public recreation-ground under Class III of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the harbour of Port Nicholson bounded on all sides by the sea, and called or known by the name of Ward Island.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of March, 1924.

C. J. PARR, for Minister of Lands.