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11. Retiring members shall be eligible for reappointment or re-election either by the same or another appointing or electing body.

12. The first appointments shall be made and the first election shall be held under these regulations in the month of May, 1931, and the members appointed or elected shall come into office on the 1st day of June, 1931.

13. It shall be the duty of the Board to notify the Minister, the Education Board, the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated), registered associations of employers in local industries, and registered associations of employees in local industries, by writing under the hand of the Secretary of the Board in the month of March in each year in which members of the Board retire, of the forthcoming vacancies on the Board to be filled respectfully by the Governor-General or the other appointing or electing authorities concerned.

14. Whenever a casual vacancy occurs it shall be the duty of the Board forthwith to report the fact to the Minister if the vacancy is to be filled by the Governor-General, or to the Secretary of the Education Board if the vacancy is to be filled by the Board, or the Secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated) if the vacancy is to be filled by the Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated).

15. (1) The appointment or election of members to fill vacancies caused by the expiry of the ordinary term of office shall be made in the month of May at the end whereof such expiry takes place, but shall not take effect until such expiry.

(2) The appointment or election of a member to fill a casual vacancy shall be made not later than fifty days after the vacancy occurs.

16. It shall not be necessary that the member appointed by any of the appointing or electing bodies shall himself be a member of such body, nor that a member elected by parents shall himself be the parent of a pupil.

17. If any appointment of a member is not made within the time hereinbefore prescribed, or if at any election the number of candidates nominated or duly elected is less than the number of vacancies to be filled, the Secretary shall give notice thereof to the Minister, and the vacancy for which no candidate has been appointed, nominated, or elected (as the case may be) may be filled by appointment by the Minister, or the Minister may direct that the body charged with the duty of appointing a member may proceed to make such appointment, or that the Board proceed to another election for the election of such member or members as the case may be.

18. Where anything connected with the appointment or election of members is omitted to be done, or cannot be done at or by the time hereby prescribed, or is done after such time, or is otherwise irregularly done in matter of form, the Minister may at any time before or after the time at or by which such thing is required to be done extend the time for doing such thing to such further time as he thinks fit, or may validate anything so done after the time required or so irregularly done in matter of form as he thinks fit.

19. No act or proceeding of the Board or of any committee of the Board, or of any person acting as a member of the Board, shall be invalid in consequence of there being a vacancy in the membership of the Board at the time of such act or proceeding, or by reason of there being a defect in the appointment or election of any person so acting, or by reason of his being incapable of being appointed or elected.

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

Revoking Order in Council licensing Frederick Charles Hargrave to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore at Rawene as a Site for a Store.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1931.

Present :

His Excellency He Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and published in the Gazette of the fourth day of the following month at page 3677, Frederick Charles Hargrave, of Rawene (hereinafter called “the licensee”), was licensed to use and occupy a part of the foreshore at Rawene, in Hokianga Harbour, as a site for a store:

And whereas the licensee has applied to have the herein-before-recited license revoked, and it is desirable to revoke the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1923, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, as from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

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

Revoking Order in Council licensing the Dargaville Fire Board to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore and Land below Low-water Mark of the Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour, as a Site for a Fire-brigade Station.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1931.

Present :

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and published in the Gazette of the first day of the following month at page 524, the Dargaville Fire Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) was licensed to occupy a part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark of the Wairoa River at Dargaville, Kaipara Harbour, in order to erect and maintain thereon a fire-brigade station:

And whereas such part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark of the Wairoa River at Dargaville is not now required by the Board, and it is desirable that the said Order in Council of the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, should be revoked:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1923, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, as from the date hereof.

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

Setting aside Native Land as a Native Reservation.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1931.

Present :

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty-two of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted, inter alia, that when any Native freehold land is owned at law or in equity by more than ten owners in common the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, set apart and reserve any part of that land for the common use of the owners thereof as in the said Act provided:

And whereas the Native Land Court has recommended that the land described in the Schedule hereto be set apart as a Native reservation:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and all other powers thereunto him enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby set apart and reserve the Native freehold land described in the Schedule hereto for the common use of the owners thereof as a meeting-place.

And it is further declared that the Native reservation hereby constituted, together with the Native reservation known as Manukorihi A2 Block, are hereby vested as one Native reservation in the following trustees, namely:-

Te Kaho Heremaia,
Te Manuarupe Waiti,
Hakopa Ngaupaka,
Ngaira Maui Pomare, and
Ngakawe Komene,

to be held in trust and administered by the trustees in accordance with the provisions of section 26 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1930.