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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 6

Vesting Crown Land in the Alexandra Borough Council for Tree-planting Purposes.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of January, 1932.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1926, it is provided that if in the opinion of the Governor-General it is expedient that any land vested in His Majesty and not reserved for any special purpose should be vested in any local authority in trust for the purpose of planting trees thereon, he may, by Order in Council, vest such land in that local authority for such purpose, with or without payment therefor, and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed or imposed in such Order:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the land described in the Schedule hereto in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Alexandra for tree-planting purposes without payment therefor:

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 the said section twenty, doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Alexandra for tree-planting purposes, subject to the special conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

(1) The Alexandra Borough Council shall, within six months of the date hereof, or within such extended period as the Commissioner of State Forests may decide, prepare a general forest working-plan of future operations to cover a period of not less than five years; such working-plan shall fully specify the silvicultural operations proposed to be carried on during the currency of the plan and such other matters as the Director of Forestry thinks fit.

(2) It shall not be lawful for the said Council to carry on such silvicultural operations unless and until such plan has been approved by the Commissioner of State Forests, and all such operations shall be carried on according to such plan as approved by the said Commissioner and under the supervision of the Director of Forestry.

(3) Any officer of the State Forest Service shall have free access to the said land at all times for the purpose of inspecting planting or other forestal operations, or for the purpose of reporting on proposed forest activities.

(4) The said Council shall, as soon as practicable after the date hereof, appoint some fit person to supervise and manage all tree-planting operations which may be undertaken by the said Council, and generally to advise the said Council on all matters pertaining to its forestry operations.

(5) The said Council may dispose of, by private sale, tender, or auction, any timber, trees, tree-seeds, firewood, or other forest produce on or from the said land.

(6) The payment of expenses of administration, management, and development of the said land for forestry and other purposes incidental thereto (including any expenses of supervision incurred by the State Forest Service) shall be a first charge on all moneys received therefrom, whether by way of rent, fees, proceeds of sales of forest produce, or from any other source whatsoever.

(7) In April of each year the said Council shall furnish to the Commissioner of State Forests a report for the year ending on the preceding 31st day of March, presenting in complete detail full particulars of the technical operations, and of the said administration of the land hereby vested in 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 9, Block XXXV, Town of Alexandra: Area, 7 acres 2 roods 38 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 22/3655.)

Members of Board of Governors of New Zealand Institute reappointed.

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,
Wellington, 18th January, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

Bernard Cracroft Aston, Esquire, and
Walter Reginald Brook Oliver, Esquire,

to be members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute as constituted by the New Zealand Institute Act, 1908.

E. A. RANSOM,
For Minister for Scientific and Industrial Research.

Appointing Members of the Survey Board under the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th January, 1932.

PURSUANT to the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section 3 of the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928, I, Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Minister of Lands for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint, as from the 1st day of January, 1932, the undermentioned persons to be members of the Survey Board constituted by the said Act:—

George Henry Bullard,
Thomas Brook,
Samuel Thomas Seddon, M.C., and
Archibald Hugh Bogle,

the last-mentioned two persons having been recommended by the Surveyors’ Institute, as required by the said Act.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 7199.)

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th January, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

George Moore, Esquire,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Tauranga, vice J. Murdoch, Esquire, deceased.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Classification of Road in Matamata County.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Transport Department Act, 1929, and the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, and their amendments, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Transport, do hereby approve of the Matamata County Council’s proposed classification of that portion of the Old Taupo Road from intersection with Lichfield–Waotu Road to junction with No. 19 Main Highway in the Fifth Class, available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry (other than a multi-axled motor-lorry) which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 2½ tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 4½ tons.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of January, 1932.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 10/9.)

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 13th January, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registers of New Zealand 5¼, 5¼, and 5¼ per cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 15th February, 1932, 15th August, 1933, and 15th February, 1937, will be closed from the 1st February to 15th February, 1932 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

GEO. W. FORBES, Acting Minister of Finance.