JULY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2169

the sixteenth day of the same month, Hugh Cox (herein-
after called "the licensee") was licensed to occupy portions
of the land between high- and low-water marks, in the Whiri-
naki River, Hokianga Harbour, and to reclaim such land:
And whereas the said licensee has applied to have the
hereinbefore-recited license revoked, and it is desirable to
revoke the same:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the powers and authority vested in him by the Harbours
Act, 1923, and of all other powers and authorities enabling
him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth
hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of
the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty, as from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-five.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Wairau Valley Public
Hall Board.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of
July, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
was by Warrant published in Gazette of the nineteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall: 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 vest the control of the
reserve described in the Schedule hereto, for the period of
five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended
or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely:
James Owen Anstiss,
George Howard Broadbridge,
James William Brown,
Cornelius O'Leary,
Joseph Parfitt, and
Charles Davies Timms,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Wairau Valley Public Hall Board (here-
inafter referred to as "the 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 on
   the last Saturday in each month at 8 o'clock p.m., at the
   Wairau Valley Schoolhouse, 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 Saturday, the 29th day of August,
3. 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.
4. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman,
   provided that two days' notice of any 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.
5. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum.
   Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
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 of 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. All questions shall be determined by the majority of
   votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.
9. 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 31st day of March, together with a state-
   ment 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.
10. The Board shall control the said reserve and the building
    erected thereon for the purposes of a public hall, and shall
    also afford settlers and residents of Wairau Valley and the
    surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said
    hall as may from time to time be determined by the Board;
    provided that the Board shall have power to fix reasonable
    charges for the use of the said hall.
    SCHEDULE.
    ALL that land in the Marlborough Land District, containing
    by admeasurement 2 roods, more or less, being Section 2,
    Town of Wairau Valley. Bounded towards the north-east
    by Morse Street, 120.4 links; towards the south-east by
    Section 1 in the said town, 415.3 links; towards the south-
    west by Section 10, Block IV, Mount Olympus Survey District,
    120.4 links; and towards the north-west by Section 3 in the
    said town, 415.3 links, to the point of commencement: be
    all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is de-
    lineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/2495, deposited in
    the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wel-
    lington, and thereon edged red.
    F. D. THOMSON,
    Clerk of the Executive Council.
    Validating Proceedings in connection with the Papatoetoe Town
    Board's Loan of £1,365 for Antecedent Liability and Recreation-ground Debentures Purposes.
    CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
    ORDER IN COUNCIL.
    At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of
    July, 1925.
    Present:
    His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
    WHEREAS the Papatoetoe Town Board lately proceeded
    to raise a loan of one thousand three hundred and
    sixty-five pounds under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913
    (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), for the payment
    of antecedent liability and redemption of recreation-ground
    debentures:
    And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said
    loan were irregular in that the voting-paper used for the pur-
    poses of the poll taken on the proposal to raise the said loan
    did not set forth the proposed security and provision for the
    repayment of the said loan, nor a statement whether or not
    it was proposed to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the
    loan or the interest and sinking fund for the first year, as re-
    quired by section ten of the said Act:
    And whereas the proposed security and provision for the
    repayment of the said loan and a statement that it was proposed
    to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the loan were set
    forth in the notice published pursuant to section nine of the
    said Act:
    And whereas it is not proposed to pay out of the loan the
    interest and sinking fund for the first year:
    And whereas it was intended that the statement that it
    was proposed to pay out of the said loan the cost of raising
    the loan should apply only to the cost of raising so much of
    the said loan as was to be raised for purposes other than the
    payment of antecedent liability:
    And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district
    have not been misled by such irregularity as aforesaid, and it
    is expedient to validate the same:
    Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
    Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
    powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hun-
    dred and eleven of the said Act, and of all other powers and
    authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and
    with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
    said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the pro-
    ceedings in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all
    intents and purposes as though the voting-paper had set
    forth the aforesaid particulars required by section ten of the
    said Act, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection
    with the said loan or of the security for the said loan shall not
    be called in question by reason only of the irregularity afore-
    said.
    F. D. THOMSON,
    Clerk of the Executive Council.