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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 17

the said Council and the financial operations relating thereto,
and shall at the same time submit a plan of operations and
management for the ensuing year, which shall be effective on
approval by the Commissioner of State Forests.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 142, Block I, Teviot Survey District : Area, 97 acres
3 roods 25 perches, more or less.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. X/100/14.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Riwaka Public Library
Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of
March, 1932.
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a
reserve duly set apart for a site for a public library:
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 the period
of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended
or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons,
namely :--
Alexander John Drummond,
Bertie John Goodall,
Samuel Manson Askew, and
Claude Eustace Hart,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Riwaka Public Library 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 Monday in each month at eight o'clock p.m.,
   at the Riwaka Library, 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 twenty-first day of
   March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, at half
   past seven o'clock p.m.
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 suc-
   cessor.
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 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 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 library, and
   shall also afford settlers and residents of Riwaka and the sur-
   rounding district such facilities for meeting within the said
   building 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 building.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 4 and 5, Block X, Kaiteriteri Survey District : Area,
2 roods 9·4 perches.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 22/3554.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Taumarunui
Borough Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery
Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as "the said
Act"), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic
reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being lands re-
served under the said Act) in the Taumarunui Borough
Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that
is to say,--

1. The period for which the control of the reserves is
   hereby vested shall be three years from the date hereof, unless
   the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the
   said Act.
2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending
   on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of
   receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserves.
   Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister
   charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as
   possible after the close of the year.
3. The said Council shall control the said reserves in accord-
   ance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
ALL that area containing by admeasurement 24 acres 2 roods
30 perches, more or less, being Lot A, Block I, Hunua
Survey District. As the same is delineated on a plan marked
L. and S. 1/440, deposited in the Head Office, Department
of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured
red.
Also all that area, containing by admeasurement 3 acres
0 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Lot B, Block I, Hunua
Survey District. Also all that area containing by admeasure-
ment 1 acre 0 roods 21 perches, more or less, being Lot D,
Block I, Hunua Survey District. As the same are delineated
on the plan marked 270/20H, deposited in the office of the
Chief Surveyor, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 7th day of March, 1932.
E. A. RANSOM,

• Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
  (L. and S. 4/424.)

Notice bringing an Education Reserve within the Operation
of the Mining Act, 1926.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me
by section twenty-five of the Mining Act, 1926, and of
every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf,
I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the Primary Edu-
cation Endowment described in the Schedule hereto shall be
brought within the operation of the Mining Act, 1926 ; and
do hereby further declare that this notice shall take effect
as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand
Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by
admeasurement 9 acres 2 roods 35 poles, more or less, being
Lot 2 of Section 1, Block XLVIII, Tokomairiro Survey
District, and bounded as follows : Towards the east generally