1674
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

Amending the Samoan Crown Estates Order, 1920.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of July, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby amend the Samoan Crown Estates Order, 1920, as follows:—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Samoan Crown Estates Amendment Order, 1924, and shall be read with and form part of the Samoan Crown Estates Order, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”), and shall come into force on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

2. Clause seven of the principal Order is hereby revoked. All references in the principal Order as heretofore amended, or in any amendment thereof, to the General Manager of Crown Estates shall hereafter be deemed to be references to the Samoan Crown Estates Board as herein established.

3. (1.) There is hereby established a Board, to be called the Samoan Crown Estates Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), which shall, subject to the direction of the Minister of External Affairs, be charged with the administration of the Samoan Crown estates.

(2.) The Board shall consist of the Administrator and two other persons chosen by the Administrator and approved by the Minister of External Affairs. Each of such persons shall hold office during the pleasure of the Minister.

(3.) The powers of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy in the membership thereof.

(4.) The Administrator shall be the Chairman of the Board and in his absence from any meeting the Board may appoint one of its members to be chairman at that meeting.

4. (1.) Meetings of the Board shall be held at such times and places as the Chairman of the Board shall from time to time appoint.

(2.) At any meeting of the Board the decision of the majority of the members present shall be the decision of the Board. When not more than two members are present the Chairman shall have a casting as well as a deliberate vote.

5. (1.) Subject to the approval of the Minister of External Affairs, all Samoan Crown estates shall, as the Board thinks fit, and on such terms and in such manner as it thinks fit, be either sold or leased, or managed by the Board as a plantation, or utilized by it in such other manner as may be proper for the production of adequate revenue therefrom.

(2.) Clause fourteen of the principal Order is hereby revoked.

6. (1.) The Minister of External Affairs may from time to time, under the authority of and in accordance with an authorizing Order in Council, direct that any moneys derived or to be derived from the Samoan Crown estates shall be transferred to the Samoan Treasury, to be used for the purposes of the Government of Samoa.

(2.) Clause eleven of the principal Order and clause three of the Samoan Crown Estates Amendment Order, 1920, are hereby revoked.

7. The Minister of External Affairs may from time to time direct that any Samoan Crown estate, or any part thereof, may be used for the purposes of the Government of Samoa, subject to such conditions as to periods of user, maintenance, cultivation, or other matters, as the Minister may deem advisable.

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