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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.

RUAPEKAPEKA PA SCENIC RESERVE.—NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Portion of Section 32, Ruapekapeka Parish: Area, 1 acre 0 roods 9 perches.
Also, portion of Huiarau Block: Area, 5 acres 2 roods 19 perches.
Situated in Block I, Hukerenui Survey District. (Auckland plan 16831, blue.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of December, 1931.

A. T. NGATA,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 590.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Hae Hae Te Moana 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), in trust, for the purposes of scenery preservation, as from the date of this notice until the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the Hae Hae Te Moana Scenic Board, as constituted by notification dated the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and published in the Gazette of the thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Reserve No. 4254, Block XV, Four Peaks Survey District: Area, 100 acres 2 roods, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of December, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
L. and S. 4/17.)

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officer under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 1st December, 1931.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Robert Masters, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following person as an Honorary Child Welfare Officer for the purposes of the said Act for the period ending 31st December, 1932.

Name. District.
Burnett, Mrs. Nona Margaret .. .. Woodville.

R. MASTERS, Minister of Education.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th December, 1931.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Roy McDowell, of Opotiki.

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, in respect of the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Appointment and Promotion in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 30th November, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointment and promotion in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy:—

Lieutenant-Commander Philip Arthur Berry, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Philomel,” additional, to date 25th September, 1931, and to “Philomel,” part complement, vice Prentice, from date of joining.

Mr. Herbert Russell Sleeman, Warrant Writer, promoted to the rank of Commissioned Writer in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, to date 1st November, 1931.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and Retirements of Officers of the N.Z. Military Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, and retirements of the undermentioned officers of the N.Z. Military Forces:—

COMMANDS.

Major G. N. Taylor, v.d., The Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles, relinquishes command of the regiment, and is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b), R.D. 5. Dated 17th November, 1931.

Major A. C. Nathan, v.d., The Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and is appointed to command the Regiment, vice Major G. N. Taylor, v.d., transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 18th November, 1931.

THE AUCKLAND MOUNTED RIFLES.

The notice published in the N.Z. Gazette, No. 70, dated 24th September, 1931, relative to the promotion of 2nd Lieutenants G. M. Birdsall, W. W. Buttimore, T. W. Shanks, H. N. Waddington, and A. Morrison, is hereby cancelled and the following substituted:—

“The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 25th August, 1931:—

G. M. Birdsall.
W. W. Buttimore.
T. W. Shanks.
H. N. Waddington.
A. Morrison.”

THE AUCKLAND REGIMENT (COUNTESS OF RANFURLY’S OWN.)

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants, 1st Battalion, to be Lieutenants:—

Dated 20th September, 1931—
H. C. Sidford.
H. M. Green.

Dated 22nd September, 1931—
C. A. Ferguson.
H. N. Johnson.
G. Colledge.

THE HAURAKI REGIMENT.

Bandmaster (Honorary Lieutenant) A. Clarke, 1st Battalion, is posted to the Retired List, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 13th October, 1931.

Arthur Williams to be Bandmaster (Honorary Lieutenant), 1st Battalion. Dated 14th October, 1931.