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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39

Officiating Ministers for 1924.—Notice No. 20.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th June, 1924.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908,
the following name of an Officiating Minister within
the meaning of the said Act is published for general in-
formation.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. John H. Ruprecht.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Thames on 1st July, 1924.

Registrar’s Office,
Auckland, 26th May, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in
the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the
Native Land Court sitting at Thames on the 1st day of July,
1924, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will
allow.

E. P. EARLE, Registrar.

[Waikato-Maniapoto 1924–6.]

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATIONS FOR COMPENSATION.

No. 19. Applicant: Thames County Council. Name of
land: Maramarahi 1 and 3, Parehuia, and Parehuia 2c 4.
Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land
taken for a road.

No. 20. Applicant: Under-Secretary for Public Works.
Name of land: Oteao 1. Nature of application: Assessment
of compensation for land taken for a road.

No. 21. Applicant: Under-Secretary for Public Works.
Name of land: Tiritiri 9b. Nature of application: Assess-
ment of compensation for land taken for a road.

Ngongotaha Cemetery.

THE following rules and regulations with regard to the
above cemetery are published for general informa-
tion:—

1. The cemetery shall consist of that piece of land con-
   taining 20 acres, more or less, being part Rotohokahoka E
   Block, and situated in Block XVI, Rotorua Survey District;
   as the said area is more particularly delineated in a plan
   deposited in the Native Land Court Office at Rotorua.

2. The cemetery shall be available for use by Europeans
   and Natives alike.

3. The cemetery shall be vested in and controlled by a
   Board of Trustees appointed by the Judge of the Waiariki
   District Native Land Court, and consisting of three Europeans
   and three Natives selected in the following manner:—

(a.) The European members of the Board shall consist of
three members for the time being of the Rotorua
County Council, one of whom must be the Chairman
of the said Council. The other two European mem-
bers shall be nominated by the said Chairman.

(b.) The Native members of the Board shall be selected by
the Judge for the time being of the Waiariki District
Native Land Court from names submitted to him of
members of the Ngati-Whakaue Tribe.

(c.) If at any time any member of the Board shall die or
resign or shall otherwise become ineligible or in-
capable of acting as trustee, his place shall from time
to time be filled by further appointment by the
Judge of the Waiariki District Native Land Court
in manner following:—

(i.) In the case of European members the new
trustee or trustees shall be such person or persons as
shall be nominated by the Chairman of the Rotorua
County Council under preceding subclause (a).

(ii.) In the case of Native members the new trustee
or trustees shall be selected and appointed as pro-
vided by preceding subclause (b).

(d.) The first trustees shall be those persons appointed by
the Judge of the Waiariki District Native Land
Court by order of even date herewith.

4. The Chairman for the time being of the Rotorua County
   Council shall act as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and
   shall convene all meetings of the said Board.

5. Matters in dispute shall be decided by a vote of the
   members of the Board, and in cases of an equal division of
   opinion the Chairman shall have a casting vote.

6. Not less than four of the members of the Board present
   at a meeting shall form a quorum.

7. The Board of Trustees shall have power to fix a scale of
   fees for burials in the cemetery.

8. The Board of Trustees may delegate to the Rotorua
   County Council the control of the actual working and main-
   tenance of the cemetery and the collection of all burial and
   other fees in such manner, for such period, and upon such
   terms and conditions as the Board shall determine.

9. A portion of the cemetery, to be decided upon and
   approved by the Board of Trustees, shall be set aside for the
   interment of members of the Ngati-Whakaue Tribe.

10. The Board of Trustees shall have power to appoint such
    sextons and grave-diggers as they may think necessary.

11. The Board of Trustees shall cause to be made a plan
    of the cemetery, dividing the same up into sections and
    blocks, which shall be numbered or otherwise identified, and
    shall set aside part of the cemetery for Natives as aforesaid
    and part for Europeans, and each such part shall be divided
    into separate portions for Protestants and for Roman
    Catholics.

12. The Board of Trustees may sell either in perpetuity or
    for a limited period the exclusive right of burial in any part
    of the cemetery, and also the right of constructing any vault
    or place of burial with the exclusive right of burial therein,
    and any agreement to be executed in connection with such
    sale may be signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees by the
    Chairman for the time being of the Board.

13. No person other than the sexton or one of his assistants
    appointed by the Board of Trustees shall dig any grave or
    open the ground for any burial in any part of the said cemetery.

14. No interment shall be made without a warrant for that
    purpose obtained from the Board of Trustees or from such
    person or persons as they may appoint in that behalf.

15. In all cases of intended interment the person having
    the management or control of the same shall make appli-
    cation in the following form to the Board of Trustees or its
    nominee (see form).

16. The Board or its nominee shall upon such application
    being made grant to such applicant a warrant in the following
    form on payment of the prescribed fee (see form).

17. All graves for children under ten years shall be 5 ft.
    deep, and all graves for adults shall be 7 ft. deep.

18. No person shall apply for a burial-warrant less than
    six working-hours prior to the time when he desires the
    interment to take place.

19. The warrant when received by the sexton shall be suffi-
    cient authority for such interment.

20. Funerals will only be allowed between the hours of
    8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

21. Any purchaser of the right of burial in perpetuity in
    any part of the cemetery in which no interments shall have
    taken place may, with the consent of the Board of Trustees
    and after payment of a registration fee of 5s., transfer his or
    her interest in the said ground to any other person.

22. The Board of Trustees shall keep a record-book in which
    it shall enter from time to time the number of every lot sold
    and the name of the purchaser thereof, together with the
    date of the sale of the same, and shall keep a record of the
    burials in the cemetery. The said record-book and plan of
    the cemetery shall be open for inspection by the public at the
    Rotorua County Council office during ordinary office hours.

23. No person shall erect any tombstone, headstone, or
    other monument or any fence exceeding 3 ft. 3 in. high unless
    before he erects such fence, tombstone, or other monument
    he submits a plan thereof and a copy of every proposed
    epitaph or inscription to the Board of Trustees, and the Board
    duly approves thereof.

24. All fences, enclosures, tombstones, headstones, and other
    monuments left in a state of decay or broken down may at
    any time be removed from the cemetery by order of the
    Board of Trustees.

25. Any shrub planted in any portion of the cemetery,
    unless at all times kept trimmed to the satisfaction of the
    Board, may be removed or cut down by order of the Board,
    and no person shall plant any trees in the cemetery without
    the consent of the Board first had and obtained.

26. No person shall ride or drive any horse or vehicle other-
    wise than for funeral purposes within the cemetery without
    the consent of the sexton.

The above rules and regulations are hereby made by me
pursuant to section 22 of the Native Land Amendment and
Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1919, reserving, never-
theless, to the Judge for the time being of the Waiariki Dis-
trict Native Land Court full power and authority to amend,
alter, or add to the same from time to time as he shall think fit.

Dated at Rotorua, this 24th day of August, 1923.

H. CARR,
Judge of the Waiariki District Native Land Court.