2522
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Monday,
   the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred
   and twenty-five, at half past three o’clock p.m., in the North
   Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland ; and
   thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of busi-
   ness on the second Monday in each quarter 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 Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chair-
   man of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall
   have an original as well as a casting vote.

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 five 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.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTHCOTE SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, contain-
ing by admeasurement 24 acres 0 roods 6·2 perches, more or
less, being Allotment 8, Parish of Takapuna, and part Lot 29
of Allotment 7, Parish of Takapuna. As the same is more
particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 4/386,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. North Auck-
land plans: 22493 (blue) and D.P. 2658 (green).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 31st day of August, 1925.

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

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Setting apart Crown Lands under Section 161 of the Land
Act, 1924.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-
one of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson,
Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby set apart the lands described in the Schedule hereto
for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 5, Block IX, Hohoura East Survey District: Area,
10 acres 0 roods 14 perches.

Section 6, Block IX, Hohoura East Survey District: Area,
3 acres 1 rood 19 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 27th day of August, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

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Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of
the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule
hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under
the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite
their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and
receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-
eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

John Courtney Quinlan .. Otorohanga.
Arthur Louis Henry Stott .. Taupo.
William Allen Cairns .. Tokaanu.
William Albert Gundy .. Waiau.
Thomas Stinson .. Whangamomona.

As witness my hand, this 27th day of August, 1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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Consul of Sweden at Wellington appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th August, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs that the Exequatur
empowering

John Thomas Martin, Esq.,

to act as Consul of Sweden at Wellington, received His
Majesty’s signature on the 23rd of June.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Member of Wairoa Fire Board appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th August, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

John Scott Black, Esq., of Wairoa,

a Government representative of the Wairoa Fire Board.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22,
appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th August, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred by section 35 of the
Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the under-
mentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and
for the purposes of that Act for the Auckland Acclimatiza-
tion District :—

Ferrars Earnest Osborne Townshend, of Northcote.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908,
appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st August, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Ferrars Earnest Osborne Townshend, of Northcote,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries
Act, 1908.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Member of Hawke’s Bay Land Board appointed.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th August, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint—

Charles Cowper Smith

to be a member of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, as from
the 24th August, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.