2362
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

Variation of an Order in Council prohibiting Alienation of certain Native Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of July, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that any Order in Council made thereunder may be at any time varied or revoked:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby vary an Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the second day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, as extended by Order in Council dated the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and made under the said section one hundred and thirty-two, regarding the Ahomatariki 2B and other blocks set out in the Schedule thereto by excluding and excepting from prohibition of alienation the lands set out in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

Mangawhariki 5A. Ahomatariki 2B.
Mangawhariki 5B. Ahomatariki 3B.
Mangawhariki 5C. Ohinepoutea.

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

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Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Kohuratahi Public Hall Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of July, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant dated the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in Gazette of the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, 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;—

The President, Kohuratahi Settlers’ Association, ex officio,
The Secretary, Kohuratahi Settlers’ Association, ex officio,
Leslie William Aylward,
David Richard Hight,
Duncan Burgess Howard,
Henry Sheath Kirton, and
James David Law,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Kohuratahi Public Hall 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 on the first Monday in each month at half-past seven o’clock p.m. at the Kohuratahi Public Hall, 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 Monday, the second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Kohuratahi 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.

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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SUBDIVISION 1 of Section 68, Block XIV, Pouatu Survey District: Area, 2 roods.

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

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Prescribing the Term for which the Paeroa Borough Council may borrow the Sum of £1,000, being a Further Portion of a Loan of £42,750 authorized to be raised for the Construction of a Drainage System, and also the Rate of Interest payable thereon.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of July, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:

And whereas the Paeroa Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of forty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds for the construction of a drainage system, and is now desirous of raising the sum of one thousand pounds, being a further portion of the loan of forty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds:

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven, and it is desired that the term for which the money may be borrowed be twenty years, and the rate of interest payable thereon be not exceeding six per centum per annum: