Aug. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1993

police reserve). As the same is more particularly delineated
on plan marked 255/2 deposited in the Wellington District
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon
coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 9th day of August, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Setting apart Crown Lands under Section 20 of the Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1912.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by section twenty of the Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1912, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
set apart the lands described in the Schedule hereto for dis-
posal under the section of the Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 15, Block V, Hohoura East Survey District: Area,
22 acres 0 roods 15 perches.

Section 26, Block VII, Opoe Survey District: Area,
107 acres 0 roods 30 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 11th day of August, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Orari Gorge
Scenic 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 reserve 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,—

Arthur John Blakiston,
Robert Borrows,
Stanley James Neutze,
William McLeod, and
Robert Yates,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Orari Gorge Scenic 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 Satur-
   day, the sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred
   and twenty-four, at seven o’clock p.m., in the Tripp School-
   house, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the trans-
   action of business on the first Saturday 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 meet-
   ing 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 reserve in accordance
   with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

ORARI GORGE SCENIC RESERVE.

Canterbury Land District.

RESERVE 3811, Block XII, Four Peaks Survey District:
Area, 197 acres 2 roods.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 9th day of August, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Notifying Lands in Taranaki Land District for Sale by Public
Auction.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon
me by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Land
Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint
Wednesday, the first day of October, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-four, as the time at which the lands
described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public
auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said
lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Patea County.—Kakaramea Township.

SECTION 20: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Section 21: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Section 23: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Section 24: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Section 25: Area, 36·4 perches; upset price, £9.

Section 28: Area, 1 rood 0·2 perch; upset price, £5.

Section 29: Area, 1 rood 0·2 perch; upset price, £5.

Section 54: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £6.

Section 142: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Section 158: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Section 372: Area, 1 rood 0·5 perch; upset price, £10.

Section 373: Area, 1 rood 0·5 perch; upset price, £10.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General this 11th day of August, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Appointing a Member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection two of section
thirty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, that in the
event of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of an elective
member of a Harbour Board other than a representative of a
constituent district the Governor-General may, by Warrant
under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas Thomas Alexander Blackley, an elective
member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, being a representa-
tive of the combined district of Ashburton County and Ash-
burton Borough, is deceased, an extraordinary vacancy in
the membership of the Board has thereby been created, and
it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-
recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint Alexander
John Magson to be a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board
as a representative of the combined district of Ashburton
County and Ashburton Borough, in the place of the said
Thomas Alexander Blackley, deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 7th day of August, 1924.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.