Oct. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2673

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Kirk’s Bush Scenic Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the North Auckland Land District, ex officio,
William Charles Wood,
Alfred Willis,
James McCall,
Harry Stuart Curtis, and
Arthur Butterworth,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Kirk’s Bush Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Monday, the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, at half past two o’clock p.m., in the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland; and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each quarter at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of 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 four members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. 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 for such meeting.

7. 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.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

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SCHEDULE.

KIRK’S BUSH SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 7 acres 2 roods 5·7 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 15 to 22, D.P. 15387, being parts Allotments 8 and 11, and part of closed road, Opaheke Parish, Block IV, Drury Survey District. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/336, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of October, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

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Ross Dependency.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by His Majesty’s Order in Council under the British Settlements Act (Imperial), 1887, dated the 30th day of July, 1923, and all other powers me thereunto authorizing, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor of the Ross Dependency, do hereby appoint William Wigmore Stuart, Esquire, as an officer of the Government of the said Dependency, with authority to do all things and take all steps necessary or expedient to safeguard, preserve, and cause to be observed within such Dependency His Majesty’s rights and sovereignty, and the laws and regulations in force in the same; and the better to enable him to carry out such duties do hereby confer on him in respect of such Dependency all the powers and authorities which may be exercised in New Zealand by a Stipendiary Magistrate, and also all the powers and authorities which may be so exercised by a Justice of the Peace, but so, nevertheless, that such powers shall in no way derogate from or limit his general executive and administrative authority in so preserving His Majesty’s rights and sovereignty and the laws and regulations in force in such Dependency in the same manner, and with the same powers and authorities, as the various executive and administrative authorities have in the Dominion of New Zealand for carrying out and enforcing the laws of such Dominion: To hold such office and exercise the duties thereof during pleasure.

As witness my hand this 11th day of October, 1929.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor.

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District Public Trustee authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Frederick William Browne, being a person holding the office of District Public Trustee at Napier, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand this 10th day of October, 1929.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, appointed.— (Notice No. Ag. 2862.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 15th October, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Sydney Frederick Napper, Esquire,

as an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the Heathcote County, the appointment to date from the 9th day of October, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Agriculture.

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Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th October, 1929

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Lawrence Stanley Miller, of Apiti,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Feilding and District Acclimatization District.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

(M. 1/9/36.)

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Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officer under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 11th October, 1929.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Harry Atmore, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following person as an Honorary Child Welfare Officer for the district mentioned for the purposes of the said Act for the period ending 31st December, 1930:—

Name. District.
Bartle, Rev. Robert . . . . Coromandel.

HARRY ATMORE, Minister of Education.