APRIL 30.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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 reserve in accordance
   with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.
Motu Scenic Reserve.
Gisborne Land District.
Sections 29, 34, 35, 36, and 38, Block II, Motu Survey
District: Area, 49 acres 2 roods 17 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 21st day of April, 1925.

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

Warrant apportioning the Annual Payments of Interest and
other Charges in respect of a Loan originally raised by the
Wharepapa Road Board between the Otorohanga and Waipa
County Councils.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by section seventy-three of the Local
Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, it is, inter alia, provided
that where part only of an area over which a special rate is
made as security for a loan is merged or included within
the district of a local authority other than the local authority
that made the rate, then the whole of the liability in respect
of the loan shall continue to be a liability of the local authority
that raised the loan, but the Governor-General may, upon
the written application of that local authority, by Warrant
under his hand, direct that any local authority in whose
district part of such area has been merged shall pay annually
to the first-mentioned local authority during the currency
of the loan, on such date as is specified, such amount as he
considers a duly proportionate part of the interest and other
charges in respect of the loan:

And whereas a special loan of five thousand pounds was
raised partly by the Wharepapa Road Board and partly by
the Otorohanga County Council in whose district the Road
Board has now been merged:

And whereas a part of the rating-area for the said special
loan is now merged or included in the County of Waipa:

And whereas it has been mutually agreed between the
Otorohanga County Council and the Waipa County Council
that the amount of twenty-eight pounds and tenpence be
paid annually by the Waipa County Council to the Otorohanga
County Council as its duly proportionate part of the interest
and other charges payable in respect of the loan:

And whereas written application has been made by the
Otorohanga County Council to direct accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred
on me by section seventy-three of the Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1913, do hereby direct that the Waipa County Council
shall, in respect of the above-mentioned loan, pay annually
to the Otorohanga County Council, on the thirtieth day of
June in each and every year during the currency of the said
loan, the above-mentioned amount of twenty-eight pounds
and tenpence as its duly proportionate part of the interest
and other charges payable in respect of the said loan.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 18th day of April, 1925.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Finance.

Warrant vesting the Control of Portions of the Hikurangi-Jordan
Road and Valley Road in the Whangarei County Council .
and the Hikurangi Town Board, and apportioning the Cost
of Maintenance.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested
in me by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, and
the Public Works Amendment Act, 1910, and of all other
powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in this behalf,
I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General
of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the
western five-eighths of the portion of the Hikurangi-Jordan
Road lying along the boundary between the Whangarei County
and the Hikurangi Town District and mentioned in the
Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of the gazetting
hereof, be under the control of the Whangarei County Council,
and that the eastern three-eights of the said portion of road
shall be under the control of the Hikurangi Town Board;
and I do hereby further direct that the Whangarei County
Council and the Hikurangi Town Board shall each bear the
cost of constructing or maintaining or lighting or widening
or reconstructing the portion of road hereby placed under the
control of the said County Council and Town Board respectively.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the powers afore-
said I do hereby direct that the northern half of the portion
of Valley Road lying along the boundary between the Whan-
garei County and the Hikurangi Town District and men-
tioned in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of
the gazetting hereof, be under the control of the Whangarei
County Council, and that the southern half of the said portion
of road shall be under the control of the Hikurangi Town
Board; and I do hereby further direct that the Whangarei
County Council and the Hikurangi Town Board shall each
bear the cost of constructing or maintaining or lighting or
widening or reconstructing the portion of road hereby placed
under the control of the said County Council and Town Board
respectively.

SCHEDULE,
All those portions of the Hikurangi-Jordan Road and Valley
Road situated in the North Auckland Land District lying along
the boundary between the Whangarei County and the Hiku-
rangi Town District. As the same are more particularly
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 61119, deposited in
the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in
the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured black
and red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 22nd day of April, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Warrant vesting the Control of McKenzie's Bridge, on the
Hikurangi-Jordan Road, over the Mangawhero Creek in the
Whangarei County Council, and apportioning the Cost of the
Reconstruction and Maintenance.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of
all other powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in
this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Go-
vernor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
direct that McKenzie's Bridge, on the Hikurangi-Jordan
Road, over the Mangawhero Creek (described in the Schedule
hereto) shall, on and after the date of the gazetting hereof,
be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the
Whangarei County Council.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the powers afore-
said I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintain-
ing, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge
(whether heretofore incurred since the 18th day of January,
1924, or hereafter to be incurred) shall be borne by the
Whangarei County Council and the Hikurangi Town Board
in the following proportions, viz.: The Whangarei County
Council shall bear five-eighths of such cost and the Hiku-