Aug. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1901

Also the south-western side of all that portion of the said road fronting part Section 74, “Takaka District,” Block III, Waitapu Survey District, and part Section 73, “Takaka District,” Block V, Waitapu Survey District: shown on plan marked P.W.D. 84267.

Also the north-eastern side of all that portion of the said road fronting Section 2 of 22, “Takaka District,” Block X, Waitapu Survey District: shown on plan marked P.W.D. 84289.

As the said portions of roads are more particularly delineated on the above-mentioned plans, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 62/11/103/15.)

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

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of August, 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:—

William Philip Boyd,
John Berry O’Connor,
Patrick Joseph Keenan,
William Henry Knowles, and
Samuel Hyndman,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Rimu 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 Saturday in each month at eight o’clock p.m., at the Rimu 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 Saturday, the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.

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 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 Rimu and the surrounding 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.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

RESERVE 987, Block V, Kanieri Survey District: Area, 36·7 perches.

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

(L. and S. 22/3603.)

Warrant appointing Conciliation Commissioner under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and its Amendments.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by subsection four (a) and subsection six of section forty of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Ernest William Frederick Gohns

to be a Conciliation Commissioner under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act for a period of three months from the fifteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of August, 1932.

ADAM HAMILTON, Minister of Labour.

A Post-office where Miners’ Rights may be issued.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the Mining Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the post-office at Dunedin to be a post-office at which miners’ rights may be issued by the Postmaster in charge of such post-office.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of August, 1932.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Mines.

(Mines, N. 10/6.)

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

Captain Martin John Coucher de Meric, M.V.O., R.N.,

being a person holding the office of Commanding Officer of H.M.S. “Dunedin,” 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 4th day of August, 1932.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

Members of the Waotu Rabbit Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 3061.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 15th August, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint in terms of section 50 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928,

Charles Albert Buchanan,
Alexander Ferguson,
John Roigard, and
Alfred Joseph Tindall

to be members of the Waotu Rabbit Board established under the said Act.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

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