3572
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Methven Domain.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1927.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, 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, doth hereby revoke an Order in Council dated the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of that month, appointing a Domain Board to have control of the Methven Domain, and doth hereby appoint

The Mount Hutt Road Board

to be the Methven Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Monday, the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, at two o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Road Board Office, Methven, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE.

METHVEN DOMAIN.—CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

RESERVES 2613, 2613A, and 3184, Block VII, Spaxton Survey District: Area, 22 acres 1 rood, more or less.

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

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Excluding Crown Land from the Area set apart for the Purpose of promoting the Systematic Recovery of Kauri-gum and other Valuable Products contained therein.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1927.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section three of the Kauri-gum Industry Amendment Act, 1915, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby exclude from the area set apart under the said Act for the purpose of promoting the systematic recovery of kauri-gum and other valuable products contained therein, the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land having been so set apart by an Order in Council dated the fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and gazetted on the seventh day of that month.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 56, 70, 74, 75, 76, 77, 96, 102, 105, and 106, Tatarariki Parish: Area, 1,279 acres, more or less.

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

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Excluding Crown Lands from the Area set apart for the Purpose of promoting the Systematic Recovery of Kauri-gum and other Valuable Products contained therein.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1927.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section three of the Kauri-gum Industry Amendment Act, 1915, I, General Sir Charles Fergus-

son, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby exclude from the area set apart under the said Act for the purpose of promoting the systematic recovery of kauri-gum and other valuable products contained therein, the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land having been so set apart by an Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and gazetted on the twenty-sixth day of that month.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 16, Block I, Te Kuri Survey District: Area, 521 acres 3 roods 9 perches, more or less.

Allotments 114, 115, and 116, Kopuru Parish, and Allotments 78 and 79, Tatarariki Parish: Area, 541 acres 3 roods 15 perches, more or less.

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

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Making Regulations and Rules as to Maori Juries and Jurors.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 1927.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Juries Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting (so far as required) by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulation respecting Maori jurors made by Order in Council on the twenty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, under the Juries Act, 1880, and enuring under the said Act, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, at page 1491, and the rules as to Maori juries made on the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, under the Juries Act, 1880, and enuring under the said Act, and published as aforesaid on the thirtieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, at page 1525, and doth hereby make for the purposes of the said Act the regulations and rules hereinafter set out, and doth hereby declare that such revocation shall take effect and the regulations and rules hereby made shall come into force from the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

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REGULATIONS AND RULES.

1. THESE regulations and rules may be cited as “The Maori Jury Regulations, 1927.”

2. Every list of Maori jurors to be made out pursuant to clause 6 hereof shall contain the names of all Maori men (as defined by section 2 of the said Act) who are—
   (a) Resident within the limits of the jury district;
   (b) Reputed to be between the ages of 21 years and 60 years;
   (c) Of good fame and character; and
   (d) Not disqualified or exempted under sections 5 and 6 of the said Act.

3. The names of all such persons as aforesaid shall be inserted in the said lists notwithstanding that they may not be qualified pursuant to section 4 of the said Act, but the persons whose names are contained in any such list shall be subject to subsequent qualification pursuant to section 4 of the said Act by certification under clause 14 or clause 15 hereof.

4. The Jury Officer of every jury district shall, before the last day of January in every year, issue and deliver his warrant in the form marked A in the Schedule hereto (or as near thereto as may be) to some constable within such jury district, together with a sufficient number of the form of return marked B in the Schedule hereto, and the form of notice marked C in the Schedule hereto together also with forms of translation thereof in the Maori language.

5. If for any reason the constable to whom any such warrant is addressed is unable or fails to comply therewith the Jury Officer may from time to time issue and deliver a further warrant to some other constable.

6. Every constable to whom any such warrant is addressed shall forthwith after the receipt of such warrant prepare and