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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 8

Declaring Land in the Otago Land District to be subject to the
Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and five of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and shall hereafter form part of the Arthur-ton Settlement.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres l rood 17 perches, more or less, being Section 68, Block VII, Waipahi Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north-west by a public road, 1095·3 links; towards the east by Section 25, 624·5 links; and towards the south-west by a closed road, 1122 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly shown on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/817, deposited under No. 2540, in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of January, 1932.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/817.)

Selwyn Plantation Board Regulations.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section seventy-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act of 1910”), the Selwyn Plantation Board is constituted to administer and control the reserves enumerated in the said section:

And whereas by subsection three of section thirteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1931 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act of 1931”), the Board is declared to be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal:

And whereas in pursuance of the power conferred by paragraph (b) of section seventy-seven of the Act of 1910 the Governor-General is empowered to appoint one member of that Board, and each of the several local authorities specified in that paragraph, including the Spreydon Borough Council, is also empowered to appoint one member of the said Board:

And whereas the Borough of Spreydon has since the said enactment been with another borough then called the City of Christchurch constituted one united borough by the like name of the City of Christchurch, and by virtue of subsection three of section one hundred and thirty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the power conferred on the Spreydon Borough Council by the said paragraph (b) is now exercisable by the Christchurch City Council:

And whereas it is provided by paragraph (c) of the said section seventy-seven of the Act of 1910 that the Board shall meet at such times and places, and shall exercise such rights and powers and administer and control the said reserves in such manner as the Governor-General from time to time determines by regulations to be gazetted:

And whereas by subsection (5) of section thirteen of the Act of 1931 the power of the Governor-General to make such regulations was enlarged:

And whereas by section eighty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1917, it is enacted that the regulations made pursuant to section seventy-seven of the Act of 1910, and for the time being in force shall, in addition to the reserves shown in the Schedule thereto, extend and apply to any areas set apart for plantation purposes that may have been or may hereafter be vested in the Selwyn Plantation Board as constituted under that section:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers so conferred upon me, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the regulations referred to in the table of regulations revoked hereinafter contained, and do hereby make the regulations hereinafter set out and do hereby declare that such revocation shall take effect and the regulations hereby made shall come into force on the day following the publication hereof in the Gazette.

TABLE OF REGULATIONS REVOKED.

REGULATIONS.

PRELIMINARY.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as “ The Selwyn Plantation Regulations, 1931.”

2. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“ Board” means the Selwyn Plantation Board:

“ Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Canterbury Land District:

“ Reserves” means the reserves enumerated in section 77 of the said Act, and also any areas set apart or purchased for plantation purposes that may have been or may hereafter be vested in the Board:

“ The said Act” means the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1910:

“ The Secretary” means the Secretary for the time being of the Board appointed in pursuance of these regulations.

3. All appointments, contracts, documents, determinations and generally all matters, things, and acts of authority which originated under any of the regulations hereinbefore revoked and are subsisting on the coming into force of these regulations shall enure for the purposes of these regulations as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of these regulations, and shall where necessary be deemed to have so originated.

4. All matters and proceedings commenced under any of the regulations hereinbefore revoked, and pending or in progress on the coming into force of these regulations, may be continued, completed, and enforced under these regulations.

MEETINGS.

5. If and whenever the Commissioner is a member of the Board then he shall be the Chairman of the Board.

6. The Chairman of the Council of each of the Counties of Malvern, Paparua, Heathcote, Halswell, Springs, Ellesmere, Selwyn, Waimairi, and Tawera, and the Mayor of the Christ-church City Council shall from time to time notify the Chair-man of the Board of the name of the person who has been appointed by such local authority as a member of the Selwyn Plantation Board. Such appointment shall be in force until the receipt of a subsequent notification of the appointment of some other person in place of the member so appointed.

7. No act or proceeding of the Board, or of any person acting as a member of the Board, shall be invalidated in consequence of there being a vacancy in the number of the Board at the time of such act or proceeding, or of the subsequent discovery that there was some defect in the election or appointment of any person so acting, or that he was incapable of being such member.

8. The Board shall meet at the offices in Christchurch for the time being fixed by the Board as the Board’s offices, on the fourth Monday in each month or such other time or place as the Board by resolution shall determine.

9. Five members shall form a quorum at any meeting of the Board.

10. Special meetings may be called by the Chairman or by the Secretary when so directed by the Chairman, provided that not less than four days’ notice shall be given to each member of the Board of the intention to hold the special meeting.

11. Only such business shall be transacted at any special meeting as is notified in the notice calling such meeting.

12. The Board shall cause minutes of the proceedings at its meetings to be kept and from time to time authenticated as the Board prescribes, and minutes so authenticated shall be prima facie evidence of such proceedings and the regularity thereof.