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17. In the event of this Order in Council being revoked for any reason whatsoever, or upon the expiry of the period for which the license is granted, the Council shall, if required by the Minister so to do, remove the said wharf entirely from the site and restore the site to its original condition within three months from the date of the revocation or expiry, as the case may be ; and if the Council fails so to do, the Minister may cause the said wharf to be removed and the site so restored, and may recover the costs incurred by the said removal and restoration from the Council.

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

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

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of December, 1927.

Present :

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

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by Warrant published in Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, 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,—

Arthur Ernest Brown,
Philip Davies,
John McLaughlin,
Messina Guy Bailey, and
William Joseph Ryan,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Hamua 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 last Monday in each month at 8 o’clock p.m., at the Hamua 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 30th day of January, 1928.

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 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 31st 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.

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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 Hamua 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.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SUBDIVISION J, No. 4c, Mangatainoka Block (Block XIV, Mangahao Survey District) : Area, 1 rood.

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

Vesting a Cemetery Reserve in the Westland County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of December, 1927.

Present :

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

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for cemetery purposes : And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Westland :

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 four of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Westland, in trust, for cemetery purposes.

SCHEDULE.

GILLESPIE’S BEACH CEMETERY.

ALL that area in the Westland Land District containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 1 perch, more or less, being Reserve 304, Block IX, Gillespie’s Survey District. As the same is delineated on plan marked L. and S. 2/169, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

Primary-education Endowment Land in Hua Village, Taranaki Land District, set apart as an Addition to a Site for a Public School.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section five of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1911, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserve or endowments :

And whereas the Land Board of the Taranaki Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as an addition to a site for a public school, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation :

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto as an addition to a site for a public school (Bell Block).

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 17, Hua Village : Area, 1 rood 8 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of December, 1927.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Lands.