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SEAL.

13. The seal of the Board shall be such as is determined by the Native Minister, and shall be kept in the custody of the Secretary or such other person as the Board may appoint for the purpose.

14. The seal of the Board shall not be affixed to any document except in the presence of either the Secretary or other responsible officer of the Board and one member, or in the presence of two members, who shall attest the sealing of the document.

ACCOUNTS.

15. All moneys received by the Board shall forthwith be paid into an account to be kept in the Bank of New Zealand at such place as the Native Minister shall direct, and shall be paid out by cheque signed by the Under-Secretary or such person as he may appoint, and countersigned by the Accountant of the Department of Native Affairs or some officer acting for him.

16. All claims upon the Board shall bear the certificate of the Secretary or other responsible officer that the claim is in order, and shall be approved for payment by the Chairman or Deputy Chairman or some person acting for either of them. The Secretary shall at each meeting of the Board submit a list of all claims paid since the previous meeting or which require to be paid.

17. Proper books of account and other books shall be kept in which shall be entered correct records of all moneys received and paid out of the account. Such books shall be open at all reasonable times to inspection by members of the Board or by an authorized officer of the Board.

18. At the close of each financial year ending on the 31st day of March* there shall be prepared a statement showing the total receipts and payments, and income and expenditure of the Board during that year, together with a balance-sheet showing the Board’s assets and liabilities, which shall be audited by the Audit Office.

19. The Secretary of the Board shall place the statements and balance-sheet referred to in the last preceding clause before the Board at the annual meeting. The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Board at such meeting a report of the operations and commitments of the Board during the same period, together with an estimate of the probable financial requirements of the Board for the next financial year.

20. A sum not exceeding £10 may at any time be advanced to the Secretary, who shall account therefor to the Board, for the purpose of paying postages, telegrams, and other incidental expenses.

TRAVELLING-ALLOWANCE AND LOCOMOTION EXPENSES.

21. The Board may, out of its funds, pay to its members a travelling-allowance of one pound one shilling (£1 1s.) for every day or part of a day the member is necessarily absent from his usual place of residence in transacting any business of the Board: Provided that when a member leaves and returns to his usual place of residence on the same day his actual and reasonable expenses only shall be paid. A member who is an officer of the Public Service and any other officer of the Public Service concerned with the business of the Board shall be paid according to the scale prescribed under the Public Service Act, 1912, or other regulation affecting such officer.

22. The Board may also pay the actual and reasonable locomotion expenses incurred by members and officers in transacting any business of the Board, including, where necessary, the provision of deck-cabins on steamers and sleeping-berths on trains.

23. The expenditure for travelling-expenses shall not in any financial year exceed £100, except with the consent in writing of the Native Minister.

PURPOSES AND OBJECTS OF BOARD.

24. The Board may undertake the promotion of the purposes and objects defined by the said section in such manner, by such means, and under and subject to such terms and conditions as in its discretion it thinks expedient or desirable.

OFFICERS OF BOARD.

25. The Board may appoint and employ all such officers and servants as it thinks expedient. The remuneration, travelling-allowance, and expenses of such officers and servants of the Board as are not officers of the Public Service may be determined and paid by the Board.

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

B

The South-eastern Side of Portion of the Hutt – Day’s Bay Road, in the County of Hutt, exempted from the Provisions of Section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 26th day of January, 1932.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby approve of the following resolution passed by the Hutt County Council on the seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, viz. :—

“The Hutt County Council, being the local authority having control of portion of the Day’s Bay Road, hereby resolves and declares that the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall not apply to the south-eastern side of the portion of the said road fronting part of the land shown on D.P. 10102, being part Section 31, Harbour Registration District ”;

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the south-eastern side of the portion of the Hutt – Day’s Bay Road (described in the Schedule hereto), within a distance of six feet from the south-eastern boundary of the said portion of road.

SCHEDULE.

THE south-eastern side of all that portion of road, situated in the Wellington Land District, County of Hutt, known as the Hutt – Day’s Bay Road, fronting part Section 31, Harbour R.D., being part of the land shown on D.P. 10102, Block XVI, Belmont Survey District. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 82022, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

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

(P.W. 41/578.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Moura Native Burial-ground Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 26th day of January, 1932.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, permanently reserved for a Native burial-ground: 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,—

Ngatai te Tuhi,
Arawhiti Mehaka,
Raimona Heretaunga,
Patiti Paerau, and
Te Whainoa Raureti,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Moura Native Burial-ground 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 at two o’clock p.m. on the first Saturday in the months of February, May, August, and November in each year, at