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SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Fitzroy District.

Lot 5, part Section 11, Fitzroy District : Area, 24·2 perches. Upset price, £725.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of September, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands. (L. and S. 9/2604.)

Notifying Settlement Lands in Canterbury Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, as the time at which the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Waimate County.—Town of Morven.—Waitaki Survey District. Waikakahii Settlement.

Section 10, Block II : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 12, Block II : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 14, Block II : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £20. Section 15, Block II : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 12, Block IV : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £20. Section 14, Block IV : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £25. Section 16, Block IV : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £20. Section 3, Block V : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 4, Block V : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 6, Block V : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £12. Section 7, Block V : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 8, Block V : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £12. Section 10, Block V : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £12. Section 12, Block V : Area, 1 rood 12 perches. Upset price, £15. Section 13, Block V : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 14, Block V : Area, 38 perches. Upset price, £15. Section 2, Block VI : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £40. Section 4, Block VI : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £30. Section 5, Block VI : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 7, Block VI : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 9, Block VI : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 11, Block VI : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £15. Section 12, Block VI : Area, 1 rood. Upset price, £25.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of September, 1931.

A. J. MURDOCH, for Minister of Lands. (L. and S. 9/56.)

Portion of Te Naumai Domain set apart as a Site for a Public Hall.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-two of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that that portion of the Te Naumai Domain, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, be set apart as a site for a public hall.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 18, Naumai Village : Area, 3 roods 8 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of September, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands. (L. and S. 1/788.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Mount Balloon Hut Scenic Board.

BLEDISLOE, 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 :— George Charles Cecil Black, M.P., Thomas Hill Easterfield, Jonathan Taylor Brough, Frederick Giles Gibbs, Henry Thomas Kidson, Leslie Walter Tiller, and John Reginald Grigg

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Mount Balloon Hut 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 twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, at four o'clock p.m., in the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third 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 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 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.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—MOUNT BALLOON HUT SCENIC RESERVE.

SECTION 2, Block VIII, Harapaki Survey District : Area, 40 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of September, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation. (L. and S. 4/350.)