OCT. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2871

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

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of October, 1926.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart 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:—

Frederick Thompson Going,
Duncan Kenneth Vinson,
Leonard Kenneth Harnett, and
Murdoch McKenzie,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Taurikura 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 second Saturday in each month at ten o'clock a.m. at the office of Messrs. Bannister and Lamb, Solicitors, Whangarei, 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 ninth day of October, 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 three 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 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 Taurikura 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 area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 32.7 perches, more or less, being Lot 3, D.P. 17413, being part of Allotment 15, Manaia Parish, Whangarei County. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 22/3583, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Putaruru Town District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th September, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Alfred Henry Dukeson, Esquire, of Putaruru,

to be Returning Officer and person to prepare the roll of electors for the first election of a Board of seven Commissioners for the Putaruru Town District; also to appoint Tuesday, the 2nd day of November, 1926, as the day, and the Putaruru Public Hall as the place, for holding such first election; and also to appoint Friday, the 5th day of November, 1926, at 7.30 o'clock in the afternoon, as the time, and the aforesaid Putaruru Public Hall as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Board of Commissioners so elected.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Ranger appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th September, 1926.
IT is hereby notified that in pursuance of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, the undermentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for purposes of that Act for the Otago Acclimatization District:—

James Gunn Leckie.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Balclutha Fire Board appointed.

Internal Affairs Department,
Wellington, 30th September, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Robert Duncan Macdonald

as Government Representative on the Balclutha Fire Board in place of Archibald J. Campbell, resigned.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Wanganui River Trust reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th September, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 2 of the Wanganui River Trust Act, 1891, been pleased to reappoint

Arthur Stewart Burgess

to be a member of the Wanganui River Trust as from the 20th day of September, 1926.

K. S. WILLIAMS, for Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Officers under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 1st October, 1926.
IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Frederick John Cowling, of Westown, New Plymouth, and
Henry Kendell, of Omata,

to be officers for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, in respect of the Taranaki Acclimatization District.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th September, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Albert Brandford

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wallace, vice H. Anderson.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.