Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Tikokino War Memorial Public Library Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of April, 1926.
Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been permanently reserved for a site for a public library:
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,
Agnes Gertrude Petrie,
Rose Brassington,
Margaret Helen Ann Buchanan,
Sarah Gertrude Ann Buchanan,
James Irvine Petrie,
Ernest Oswald Roach,
David Eddie, and
Thomas Moorhead,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Tikokino War Memorial Public Library Board (hereinafter 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 at the Tikokino War Memorial Public Library, or at such other place and at such time as may be from time to time fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on the 3rd day of May, 1926.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Any five members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
5. 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.
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 (or her) 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 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 shall control the said reserve and the building erected thereon for the purposes of a war memorial public library, and may afford settlers and residents of Tikokino and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said building 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 building.
   SCHEDULE.
   ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 19·4 perches, more or less, being part Section 175, Township of Hampden (Tikokino), Hawke's Bay Land District. Bounded towards the north by Owen Street, 60·6
   links; towards the east by part Section 175, 200 links; towards the south by Section 7, 60·6 links; and towards the west by Section 86, 200 links: 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.
   F. D. THOMSON,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.
   Vesting Crown Land in the Whangarei Borough Council for Tree-planting Purposes.
   CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
   ORDER IN COUNCIL.
   At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of April, 1926.
   Present:
   His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
   WHEREAS by section thirty-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1924, it is provided that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, vest the land described in the said section thirty-seven (being the land described in the Schedule hereto) in the Corporation of the Borough of Whangarei for tree-planting purposes, subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed or embodied in such Order, and subject also to the payment by the Whangarei Borough Council of such price (if any) as the Governor-General may determine:
   And whereas the Governor-General has determined that no price should be paid in respect of the said vesting:
   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 the said section thirty-seven, doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Corporation of the Borough of Whangarei for tree-planting purposes, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—
10. The Whangarei Borough Council shall, within six months of the date hereof, or within such extended period as the Commissioner of State Forests may decide, prepare a general forest working-plan of future operations to cover a period of not less than five years ; such working-plan shall fully specify the silvicultural operations proposed to be carried on during the currency of the plan and such other matters as the Director of Forestry thinks fit.
11. It shall not be lawful for the said Council to carry on such silvicultural operations unless and until such plan has been approved by the Commissioner of State Forests, and all such operations shall be carried on according to such plan as approved by the said Commissioner and under the supervision of the Director of Forestry.
12. Any officer of the State Forest Service shall have free access to the said land at all times for the purpose of inspecting planting or other forestal operations, or for the purpose of reporting on proposed forest activities.
13. The said Council shall, as soon as practicable after the date hereof, appoint some fit person to supervise and manage all tree-planting operations which may be undertaken by the said Council, and generally to advise the said Council on all matters pertaining to its forestry operations.
14. The said Council may dispose of, by private sale, tender, or auction, any timber, trees, tree-seeds, firewood, or other forest produce on or from the said land.
15. The payment of expenses of administration, management, and development of the said land for forestry and other purposes incidental thereto (including any expenses of supervision incurred to the State Forest Service) shall be a first charge on all moneys received therefrom, whether by way of rent, fees, proceeds of sales of forest produce, or from any other source whatsoever.
16. In April of each year the said Council shall furnish to the Commissioner of State Forests a report for the year ending on the preceding thirty-first day of March, presenting in complete detail full particulars of the technical operations, and of the administration of the land hereby vested in the said Corporation and of the financial operations relating thereto, and shall at the same time submit a plan of operations and management for the ensuing year, which shall be effective on approval by the Commissioner of State Forests.
    SCHEDULE.
    SECTIONS 84, 89, 90, 91, and W. 93, Parish of Parahaki, in the North Auckland Land District, containing an aggregate area of 402 acres 2 roods 34 perches.
    F. D. THOMSON,
    Clerk of the Executive Council.