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shall determine the election by lot. The Secretary of the Board shall forthwith submit to the Native Minister the name and description of the member so elected. The member elected to be Chairman shall preside over the meeting of the Board at which he has been elected, but shall not otherwise act as Chairman until his election shall have been approved by the Native Minister.

32. (1) The Board may from time to time, with the approval of the Native Minister, appoint some fit and proper person to be the Secretary of the Board and with the like approval may at any time remove any such Secretary.

(2) The Secretary of the Board shall be deemed to be the servant of the Board, and shall receive such salary or other remuneration as the Board, with the approval of the Native Minister, shall determine.

(3) The Secretary shall have all such powers and duties as the Board shall determine, and he shall at all times conform to the direction of the Board in that behalf.

33. The Board may from time to time appoint such other officers and workmen of the Board as shall be found necessary and expedient for the proper carrying out of the business of the Board.

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

Amending the Order in Council authorizing the Westland Electric-power Board to erect Electric Lines within Portion of the Westland Electric-power District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of December, 1928.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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 amend the license issued to the Westland Electric-power Board on the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of the same month, by revoking clause eleven thereof and adding to the license the following clause:-

11. The system of supply shall be as described in paragraphs (c) and (e) of clause 2 of the regulations.

The generating voltage shall be approximately 6,600 or 400 volts between the terminals, and transformed to 22,000 or 6,600 volts for transmission.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
P.W. 26/1153.)

Amended Regulations regarding the Disposal of Lands acquired by the Crown under the Native Townships Act, 1910, and its Amendments.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of December, 1928.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section twenty-two of the Native Townships Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), 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 amend in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto the regulations under the said Act made on the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and gazetted on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations).

SCHEDULE.

THE said regulations are hereby amended by adding thereto the following new clause:-

17. Where, on the expiry of a lease of land in a Native township granted under the Native Townships Act, 1910, or under any former Native Township Act, a new lease of such land is disposed of under the said Act pursuant to a provision in that behalf in the expired lease, the owner of such new lease shall have the right at any time not later than the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, to purchase the fee-simple of the land comprised in his lease in the manner and subject to the provisions prescribed by subclauses (2), (3), (4), and (5), of clause twelve hereof, at a price which shall be the aggregate of the following sums, namely:-

(a) The amount paid by the Crown to the owners of such land for the fee-simple estate thereof.

(b) Two and one-half per centum of the amount so paid to cover costs of acquisition by the Crown: Provided that the amount chargeable under this paragraph shall not exceed £50 nor be less than £5.

(c) The amount, if any, by which interest on the sum fixed by (a) hereof at the rate of 5 per centum per annum from the respective date or dates of payment thereof by the Crown until date of notice of price given to the lessee by the Commissioner exceeds the amount of rent paid or payable to the Crown during this period under any such lease of such land that has been in existence during such period, or such lesser amount in respect of such excess as may in special circumstances be fixed by the Land Board with the approval of the Minister of Lands.

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

Authorizing the Laying-off of Streets in the Borough of Lower Hutt of Widths of less than 66 ft., subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of December, 1928.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the Public Works Amendment Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 authorize the Lower Hutt Borough Council to permit the laying-off of the proposed streets to be known as Burnside Street and Lockett Street, described in the Schedule hereto, of a width of less than sixty-six feet but not less than fifty feet, and the proposed street to be known as Riverside Drive, described in the Schedule hereto, of a width of less than sixty-six feet but not less than forty feet, subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the said streets within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said streets.

SCHEDULE.

THOSE proposed streets in the Wellington Land District, Borough of Lower Hutt, to be known as Burnside Street, Lockett Street, and Riverside Drive, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 0 roods 25 perches, more or less, being part Lot 2, D.P. 8420, of part Section 34, Hutt District. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 73081, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

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

(P.W. 51/1217.)

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street in the Borough of Lower Hutt of a Width of less than 66 ft. but not less than 40 ft. subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of December, 1928.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the Public Works Amendment Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the