Picton Rural District, as the case may be, on the committee, and the four last preceding regulations shall, mutatis mutandis, apply thereto.

9. Subject to Regulation 10 hereof, members of the committee appointed respectively by the Marlborough Hospital Board and by the Minister to represent the inhabitants of the Sounds County shall hold office until and including the day following the meeting of the Marlborough Hospital Board which is held next after any general election of members to that Board representing contributory districts consisting of or including counties:

Provided that the members so appointed on the first constitution of the committee shall hold office until and including the day following the first meeting of the said Board which is held next after the general election of such members held in the year 1932.

10. Notwithstanding the provisions of Regulations 6 and 8 hereof, the office of any member of the committee shall become vacant in any of the cases in which the office of a member of a Hospital Board becomes vacant pursuant to section 24 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926.

11. When, pursuant to the provisions of Regulation 10 hereof, the office of any member of the committee elected by the electors of the Borough of Picton or the Picton Rural District becomes vacant, the Picton Borough Council or the Marlborough County Council, as the case may be, shall forthwith appoint some qualified person in his place.

12. When, pursuant to the provisions of Regulation 10 hereof, the office of any member of the Committee appointed by the Marlborough Hospital Board or by the Minister becomes vacant, the Marlborough Hospital Board or the Minister, as the case may be, shall forthwith appoint a representative in his place.

13. Any person appointed under the provisions of Regulations 11 and 12 hereof shall (subject to Regulation 10 hereof) hold office during the remainder of the term of office of the member in substitution for whom he is elected or appointed.

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

Union of Hospital Districts and Apportionment of Representation under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1930.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section ten of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, it is provided that in pursuance of resolutions passed by the Boards of any two or more hospital districts which constitute a single continuous area the Governor-General may, by Order in Council made within twelve months after the passing of the earliest of those resolutions, abolish as from a date to be specified in the Order, those hospital districts, and constitute as from the same date a new hospital district, under a name to be specified in the Order, and comprising the whole of the area included in the hospital districts so abolished:

And whereas by the same section it is further provided that, by the Order in Council by which any such hospital district is constituted, the Governor-General may exercise in respect of that district and the Board thereof all the powers vested in him by the said Act with respect to the representation of contributory districts and the constitution and election of Boards, in the same manner, with all necessary modifications, as if that hospital district and the Board thereof had been constituted by this Act:

And whereas by subsection two of section thirteen of the said Act it is enacted that the number of representatives on a Hospital Board of each contributory hospital district shall be such as is determined by the Governor-General by Order in Council:

And whereas the Boards of the Wairau and Picton Hospital Districts have, by resolutions duly passed, resolved that their respective hospital districts be abolished, and that there be constituted a new district to be known as “The Marlborough Hospital District,” comprising the whole of the area in the hospital districts so abolished:

And whereas by section fourteen of the said Act it is provided that in any case in which any number of the contributory districts in a hospital shall be combined into a combined district the Governor-General shall, by Order in Council, from time to time select and appoint one of the contributory local authorities of the combined district to be the principal contributory local authority of that combined district within the meaning and for the purpose of the said Act:

And whereas by section fifty-eight of the said Act it is provided that when and so long as in any part of a hospital district there is no contributory local authority the Governor-General may, if he thinks fit, by Order in Council, in the month of December in each year appoint such number of members as he thinks fit as representatives of that part of the district on the Board:

And whereas the Sounds County, being a county in which the Counties Act, 1920, is not in force, is a part of the Marlborough Hospital District constituted by this Order in Council, in which there is no contributory local authority:

And whereas by section one hundred and fifty-one of the said Act it is provided that the Governor-General may, from time to time, by Order in Council, make all such regulations, consistent with the said Act, as he thinks necessary or expedient for carrying into full effect the provisions thereof:

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said Act,—
(a) Doth hereby abolish as from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, the hospital districts of Picton and Wairau;
(b) Doth hereby constitute as from the same date a new hospital district with the name of “The Marlborough Hospital District,” comprising the whole of the area included in the hospital districts of Picton and Wairau so abolished;
(c) Doth hereby determine that the number of representatives of each of the contributory districts within the Marlborough Hospital District shall be as set forth in the Schedule hereto: Provided always that this determination shall not affect the power of the Governor-General by Order in Council to make an appointment of a representative or representatives of the Sounds County under the powers conferred by section fifty-eight of the said Act;
(d) Doth hereby determine that the first election of representatives of the contributory districts shall be held on Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty;
(e) Doth hereby appoint the Marlborough County Council to be the principal contributory local authority of the combined district, comprising Marlborough County and Havelock Town District;
(f) Doth hereby direct that the first meeting of the Board of the Marlborough Hospital District shall be held in the Council Chamber of the Marlborough County Council at Blenheim on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon; and
(g) Doth hereby lastly direct that the regulations made by Order in Council dated the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-second day of March then instant, at page 773, shall, as far as applicable, apply as if incorporated in this Order in Council.

SCHEDULE.
Hospital Board. Contributory District. Number of Representatives.
Marlborough { Marlborough County Combined } 6
{ Havelock Town District }
{ Awatere County } 2
{ Blenheim Borough } 3
{ Picton Borough } 1
{ Sounds County .. } *

• To be appointed by the Governor-General.

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

Authorizing Papatoetoe Town Board to fix Water Charges according to Quantity used.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1930.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1928, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,