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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8

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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Taieri County Council on the twenty-third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, viz.:

"The Taieri County Council, having control of the roads in the Taieri County, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the sides of those portions of Riccarton Road and Gladstone Road fronting the subdivision of part of Section 19, Irregular Block, East Taieri District, as shown on the accompanying plan"; subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the south-eastern side of the portion of Gladstone Road or on the north-eastern side of the portion of Riccarton Road (described in the Schedule hereto), within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portions of roads.

SCHEDULE.

THE south-eastern side of all that portion of road situated in the Otago Land District, County of Taieri, known as Gladstone Road, and the north-eastern side of all that portion of road in the said land district and county known as Riccarton Road, fronting a subdivision of part of Section 19, Irregular Block, East Taieri District. As the said portions of roads are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 58538, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

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

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Cape Kidnapper Bird Sanctuary Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by deed bearing date the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, conveyed to His Majesty the King as a reserve for the protection of gannets: 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, for the protection of gannets resorting thereto, 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,—

Frank Lindsay Gordon,
Patrick Stirling McLean,
Henry Hill,
Cecil Duff,
The President of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute (ex officio), and
The Commissioner of Crown Lands fo the Hawke’s Bay Land District (ex officio),

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Cape Kidnapper Bird Sanctuary 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 at two o’clock p.m. on the second Friday in the months of December, March, June, and September in each year, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, 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 Friday, the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

2. 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.

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

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall chose some 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 the 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 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 of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board is hereby empowered to—
   (a.) Prohibit all persons (either with or without any firearms, explosives, or any weapon or instrument of a dangerous nature whatsoever) from trespassing on the reserve.
   (b.) Prohibit the taking or destruction in any manner of any bird, or the eggs of any bird, within the limits of the reserve.
   (c.) Prohibit the lighting of any fire on the reserve.
   (d.) Destroy, or authorize any person to destroy, any dog found within the limits of the reserve.
   (e.) Take legal proceedings, or authorize any person to take such proceedings on its behalf, against any person who wilfully damages any fence, gate, or barrier or other property belonging to or under the control of the Board, or who commits any act which the Board is hereby empowered to prohibit.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 31 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 1, Block III, Kidnapper Survey District. Bounded towards the north generally by Hawke’s Bay; towards the south-east generally by the South Pacific Ocean; towards the south generally by part Block 7, Kidnapper Crown-grant District, 5743·94 links; and towards the north-west by said part Block 7, 168·9 links:

Also two areas containing by admeasurement 1 rood 24 perches and 16 perches, more or less, respectively, being islands situated off Cape Kidnapper:

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 126/25, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

License authorizing Hugh Smith Glass to use Water from a Stream in Section 4, Block XLII, Town of Pembroke, for the Purpose of generating Electricity, and to erect Electric Lines at Pembroke.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908, and the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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, doth hereby grant to Hugh Smith Glass, of Pembroke, Hotelkeeper (hereinafter, with his successors and assigns, referred to as “the licensee”)—subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto and to the regulations dated the ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, or any regulations hereafter made in amendment thereof or in substitution