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him by the ninth section of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserves described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Kowai County Council, in trust, as gravel-pits.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that land in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods 15 perches, more or less, and being Reserve Number 2543, situated in Block IV, Grey Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the west by Rural Section Number 30650, 649 links; towards the north by Rural Section Number 20601, 686·5 links; towards the east by Rural Section Number 20602, 588 links; and again towards the south by Mt. Brown Road, 500 links.

Also all that land in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 1 perch, more or less, and being part of Reserve Number 2544, situated in Block VIII, Grey Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the east and south by other part of Reserve Number 2544, 731 and 494·2 links respectively; towards the west by Rural Sections Numbers 28734 and 37032, 737 links and 33·7 links respectively; and again towards the north by Purchas Road, 720 links. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/5/171, deposited in Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

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

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of August, 1929.

Present.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by warrant published in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, 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 seventeen of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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,—

Henry Fiveash,
William Valentine Henderson,
Reginald George Kendall,
Frederick Rowland Lacon, and
William Henry McNamara,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Raurimu 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 Tuesday in each month, at 7.30 o’clock p.m., at the Raurimu 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 Tuesday, the 24th day of September, 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 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.

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 Raurimu 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 Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 31 perches, more or less, being Section 7, Block II, Raurimu Township. Bounded towards the north-west by Section 6, 282 links; towards the north-east by the Waiouru-Taumarunui Road, 75 links; towards the south-east by Section 8, 250 links; and towards the south-west by Crown land, 81·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1911/1641, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of August, 1929.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924:

And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that part of the Mangakahia Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, 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 power and authority conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that part of the Mangakahia Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall from the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 26, Block XII, Mangakahia Survey District: Area, 145 acres 2 roods 31 perches.

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