June 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1845

36. Every member of the committee shall be indemnified by the Home against all costs, losses, and expenses which he may incur or become liable to by reason of any contract entered into or Act or thing done by him as such member in the discharge of and within the scope of his duties.

37. The chairman or the secretary shall have power at all times to convene meetings of the contributors. At least seven days' notice of such meetings shall be given by circular sent to the last known address of each contributor, and shall be held at such times and at such places as may be considered necessary for the due transaction of the business of the Home. Unless otherwise determined by the committee, the annual general meeting shall be held in the month of April or May in each year.

38. The committee may at any time, and shall on the requisition signed by not less than five contributors stating the object of such requisition, summon a special general meeting to be held not less than fourteen days and not later than one calendar month after the receipt of such requisition. The notice convening the meeting shall specify the particular matter or matters to be discussed, and shall be signed by the contributors making the same, and shall be deposited at the office of the Home. The meeting must be convened for the purposes specified in the requisition and, if convened otherwise than by the committee, for these purposes only. In case the committee after such deposit fail to convene a special general meeting within the time hereinbefore specified, the requisitionists or a majority of them may themselves convene a meeting to be held not later than three calendar months after the date of such deposit.

39. The mode of voting at all general meetings shall be open, except that any contributor may demand that a ballot be taken on any motion submitted to the meeting. The chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to the vote to which he is entitled as a contributor. Corporations and firms may from time to time, by writing, signed in the case of a Corporation by its secretary or other executive officers, and in the case of a firm by a partner, appoint a person, whether a contributor or not, to vote at general meetings on their respective behalfs: Provided that no person so appointed shall as such be qualified to be elected a member of the committee.

40. The decision of the committee on the interpretation of the by-laws or any matter or thing not contained in these regulations, but appertaining to the management of the Home, shall be final and binding.

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

Polling-places for the Franklin Electoral District appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Legislature Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be the polling-places in the said Electoral District of Franklin.

SCHEDULE.

Franklin Electoral District—
Alfriston, the Public Hall.
Ardmore, the Public Hall.
Awhitu Central, the Public School.
Awhitu Wharf, the Public School.
Brookby, the Unsectarian Church.
Buckland's Beach, Laird's Hall.
Clevedon, the Wairoa Public Hall.
Drury, the Public Hall.
Howick, the Public Hall.
Hunua, the Public Hall.
Karaka, the Public School No. 2.
Karaka North, the Public Hall.
Kohekohe, the Public School.
Manukau Heads, the Public School.
Manurewa, the Public Hall.
Maraetai, the Public School No. 2.
Orua Bay, the Public School.
Otahuhu, the Masonic Hall.
Otahuhu, the Public School.
Paerata, the Public Hall.
Pakuranga, the Public School.
Papakura, the Methodist Hall.
Papakura, Odd Fellows' Hall, opposite Public School.
Papatoetoe, the Public Hall.

Papatoetoe, the Public School.
Patumahoe, the Public Hall.
Pollock Settlement, the Public School.
Ponga, the Public School.
Pukekohe, the Courthouse (principal).
Pukekche, the Odd Fellows' Hall.
Pukekohe East, the Public School.
Pukekohe Hill, Bayly's shed.
Pukekohe West, the Carlton Hall.
Ramarama, the Public Hall.
Takanini, the Waiting-room, Railway-station.
Tamaki East, the Public Hall.
Waiau, Karaka, the Public School.
Waipipi, the Public School.
Weymouth (Post-town, Manurewa), the Public School.
Whitford, the Public Hall.
Whitford, the Public School No. 2.
Wiri, the Public Hall.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of June, 1925.

J. G. COATES,
Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

Notice of Change of the Purposes of Portion of a Reserve in the Township of Hampden, Hawke's Bay Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), the Governor-General is empowered, in the case of any public reserve vested in His Majesty or the Governor-General for any of the purposes comprised in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for a site for a post-office, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, and it is expedient to change, as hereinafter provided, the purpose of such portion:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section six of the said Act as aforesaid, declare that the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for a site for a post-office to a reserve for an addition to a site for a public library. And I do hereby further declare that this notice is issued subject to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and shall take effect according to the provisions of that section.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 13·4 perches, more or less, being part Section No. 175, Township of Hampden (Tikokino). Bounded towards the north by public library site and by Owen Street for distances of 50 links and 10·6 links, respectively; towards the east by part Section 175, a distance of 200 links; towards the south by Section 7, a distance of 60·6 links; and towards the west by Section 86 and public library site, for distances of 124·3 links and 75·7 links, respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/2793, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of May, 1925.

D. H. GUTHRIE, for Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Taranaki Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, as the time at which the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.