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set out in the notice published pursuant to section ten of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said notice”):

And whereas it was not intended to pay out of the loan-moneys interest and sinking fund for the first year in respect of the said loan:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loan were irregular or defective in that the said notice did not contain a statement that it was not intended to pay out of the loan-moneys the interest and sinking fund for the first year in respect of the said loan:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district have not been misled by such irregularity or defect as aforesaid, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the said notice had contained a statement that it was not proposed to pay out of the loan-moneys the interest and sinking fund for the first year in respect of the said loan, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan or the validity of the security for the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

(T. 49/371/1.)

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

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1929.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in Gazette of the tenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, 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:—

William James Lester,
John Thomson,
Frederick William Williscroft,
Frederick William Greig, and
William George Poulter,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Maruia 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 Saturday in each month at 7.30 o’clock p.m., at the Maruia 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 Saturday, the 2nd day of March, 1929.

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 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.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 12, Maruia Village (Block IV, Rahu Survey District): Area, 1 rood 24·7 perches, more or less.

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

Cemetery Trustees appointed—(H. 2/122).

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authorities vested in me by section fifty-five of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

The Taihape Borough Council

to be trustees of the Taihape Public Cemetery in place of Thomas Joseph Shute, whose seat has become vacant by death, John Petty Aldridge, George Bray, George Edward Little, and William James Hall McCormick, whose seats have become vacant by resignation, and Thomas Bason and George Wrightson, who have left the district.

The Kaikoura County Council

to be trustees of the Kaikoura Suburban Public Cemetery in place of John Michael Curtain, James Davidson, and Edwin Gray, whose seats have become vacant by resignation.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of March, 1929.

A. J. STALLWORTHY, Minister of Health.

Opening Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Lands for Settlements Act, 1925, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Friday, the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said reserves shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waimate County.—Waimate Survey District.—Lansdown Settlement.

SECTION 8 and Lots 2 and 3 of Section 7, Block X: Area, 325 acres 0 roods 30 perches. Capital value, £5,020. Half-yearly rent, £125 10s.

Weighted with £341 9s., valuation for improvements comprising dwellinghouse, other buildings, fencing, trees and shelter, water-supply, &c. Of this amount £141 9s. is payable in cash; the balance (£200) is to be secured by an instalment mortgage for a period of twenty years.

Property situated four miles from Waimate Railway-station and three miles from Waituna School. Cream-van calls. Watered by race and water-holes, well and pump, &c. Suitable for mixed farming. Should carry 450 to 500 ewes,