Oct. 22.]

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Colyton Public Hall Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of October, 1931.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by subsection one of section thirty-five of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1925, permanently reserved as a site for a public hall : And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter provided :

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 exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section seventeen of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto for a period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

Thomas Wales,
Newall Walter Pearce,
John Williamson,
Keith Viles, and
Harold William Shepherd,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Colyton 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 third Monday in each month at 8 o'clock p.m. at the Coylton Public Hall, 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 Monday, the 19th day of October, 1931.

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 the 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 Colyton 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.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being part Subdivision H, Manchester Block, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 56, folio 129, Wellington Registry.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 22/3477.)

[Authorizing the Waimarino County Council to sell Timber upon Portion of Middle Road in the Waimarino County.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by section one hundred and forty of the Public Works Act, 1928, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the Waimarino County Council to sell or contract to sell and remove timber upon the portion of Middle Road, commencing at its junction with Makara Road in Block XVI, Mangawui Survey District, and proceeding in a north-easterly direction to its junction with a road adjacent to the Main Trunk Railway. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 82750, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of October, 1931.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 54/45.)

Increasing Number of Days on which Charges may be made for Admission to the Taihape Oval Domain.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty-three of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby increase the number of days which may be prescribed by the Taihape Oval Domain Board as days upon which charges may be made, pursuant to the said section, for admission to the domain described in the Schedule hereto, or to any part thereof set apart for a particular purpose, from fifteen days to thirty days during the year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.

SCHEDULE.

TAIHAPE OVAL DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing 9 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less, being Block X, Township of Taihape, and formerly comprising portion of Taihape Domain.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of October, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 1/357.)

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Charles Samuel Carrad, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, at Eketahuna, 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 14th day of October, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

Appointing a Trustee of the Winton Racecourse Reserve.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 17th October, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 3 of the Winton Racecourse Reserve Management Ordinance, 1873, been pleased to appoint Thomas Hamilton to be a trustee of the Winton Racecourse Reserve in the place of Thomas McWilliam, deceased.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 54116.)