Sept. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2843

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Wairau Valley 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 Saturday in each month at 8 o’clock p.m., at the Wairau Valley Schoolhouse, 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 25th day of October, 1930.

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 Wairau Valley 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that land in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods, more or less, being Section 2, Town of Wairau Valley. Bounded towards the north-east by Morse Street, 120·4 links; towards the south-east by Section 1 in the said town, 415·3 links; towards the south-west by Section 10, Block IV, Mount Olympus Survey District, 120·4 links; and towards the north-west by Section 3 in the said town, 415·3 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/2495, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 22/2495.)

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Lands temporarily reserved in the North Auckland, Auckland, Taranaki, and Canterbury Land Districts.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section three hundred and fifty-nine of the Land Act, 1924, and section seventy-one of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the North Auckland, Auckland, Taranaki, and Canterbury Land Districts described in the Schedule hereunder written for the purposes specified in the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Ahipara Survey District .. 151 IV A. R. P. 10 0 0 Recreation.
Town of Mangonui .. 148 .. 20 1 30 Public hospital site.
Village of Papakura .. Lot 23 of Section 10 .. 1 2 37 Cemetery.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Taupiri Parish .. Allotment 540 .. 2 1 0 Recreation.
,, .. Allotment 541 .. 13 1 0 ,,
Mangaorongo Survey District .. Lot 1 of Section 1 VI 4 0 0 Public school site (Otewa).
Whaingaroa Survey District .. Lot 1 of Section 8 IX 0 3 0 Public school site (Te Akau South).
Tautari Village .. 17 .. 1 0 0 Public hall site.
Whareorino Survey District .. 6A II 26 0 11 Roadman’s cottage-site and public pound.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Town of Ohura .. 3 XV 3 0 28 9 Recreation.
,, .. 4 and 5 ,, 0 3 32·1 ,,

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Lyndon Survey District .. Reserve 4251 (formerly Sections 4, 5, 6, and parts 1 and 3, Block I, Hanmer Township) II 3 3 15 Public school site (Hanmer).
Stonyhurst Survey District .. Reserve 4257 XV 21 2 0 Recreation.
Waimate Survey District .. Reserve 4256 (formerly Section 8, Bourndale Settlement) II 5 0 0 ,,

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of September, 1930.

JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Lands.