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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

Order in Council consenting to the Raising by the Manawatu County Council of Portion (£2,000) of a Loan of £60,000 on the Instalment-repayment System, and prescribing the Term and Rate of Interest in respect thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Manawatu County Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) has been authorized to borrow in respect of a loan to be known as Main Highways Loan, 1925, the sum of sixty thousand pounds (£60,000), and the sum of two thousand pounds (£2,000) has not yet been borrowed:

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2)), and by section thirty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the raising by the said local authority of the said loan up to the amount of two thousand pounds (£2,000), at such rate or rates of interest as shall not produce to the lenders a rate exceeding the rate of five pounds five shillings (£5 5s.) per centum per annum, upon terms of making the said loan, together with interest thereon, repayable by instalments extending over a period not exceeding ten (10) years.

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

(T. 49/353.)

Vesting Control of Reserves under the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act, 1908.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section five of the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), 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 vest the control of the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto in the Minister of the Crown for the time being having the administration of the said Act, and doth hereby declare that the said reserve shall be administered under the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAIOTAPU SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District containing by admeasurement 80 acres 0 roods 14 perches, more or less, being part Section 5, Block VII, Paeroa Survey District (scenic reserve, Gazette 1908, page 893), bounded towards the north-east by Crown land, the crossing of a public road, again Crown land, the crossing of a public road, again Crown land, Section 1, Block VII, Paeroa Survey District, the crossing of a public road, State forest (Waiotapu Plantation), Gazette 1929, page 231, Crown land, being north-east portion Echo Lake, and again by State forest aforesaid, 3303·9 and 5330·0 links; towards the south-east generally by other part Section 5, Block VII, Paeroa Survey District (State forest reserved under section 6 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1926); towards the south-west generally by Paeroa East No. 4B 1B Block, the crossing of a public road, again Paeroa East 4B 1B Block, the crossing of a public road, and again Paeroa East No. 4B 1B Block, 1625·0 and 5000·0 links; and towards the north-west by Rotomahana-Parekarangi No. 3A 1B Block, the crossing of a public road and again Rotomahana-Parekarangi No. 3A 1B Block, 1016·4 links; save and excepting three intersecting public roads; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 331B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland plan S.O. 26838.)

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

(L. and S. 331.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Hamua Public Hall Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by Warrant published in Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall: 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,—

Arthur Ernest Brown,
Philip Davies,
John McLaughlin,
Alexander Sutcliffe White, and
William Joseph Ryan,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Hamua Public Hall 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 8 o’clock p.m., at the Hamua Public Hall, 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 Wednesday, the 1st day of March, 1933.

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 31st 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 hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Hamua and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said hall 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 hall.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SUBDIVISION J, No. 4C, Mangatainoka Block (Block XIV, Mangahao Survey District): Area, 1 rood.

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

(L. and S. 1/631.)