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(9) If the total number of nominations so received exceeds two in number the Under-Secretary shall prepare a list of nominated candidates and send a copy thereof to each of the said local authorities and each of the said local authorities shall hold a meeting at eight p.m. on Thursday, the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, and allocate by resolution its prescribed number of votes to each of not more than two candidates. A copy of such resolution shall be forwarded to the Under-Secretary within forty-eight hours after the time hereby fixed for the meeting, and the names of the elected candidates shall be notified by the Under-Secretary in the Gazette.

(10) For subsequent elections the Secretary for the time being of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board shall be the Returning Officer.

(11) In the month of April in each alternate year commencing in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five or so often as an extraordinary vacancy may occur, the Returning Officer shall give notice in writing to each of the said local authorities that an election is to be held in the month of May following, or within one month of the date of the occurrence of an extraordinary vacancy, as the case may be.

(12) The Returning Officer shall at the same time fix and notify as aforesaid the date and time of the meetings at which the votes of the said local authorities will be recorded. Such date and time shall be the same in respect of each of the said local authorities and such date is hereinafter referred to as “the date of the election.”

(13) The Returning Officer shall in his notice given to the said local authorities also state the number of votes exercisable by each of the said local authorities in terms of the said section seven.

(14) Each of the said local authorities may nominate candidates (not exceeding in number the number required to be elected) by special resolution, a sealed copy of which together with the written consent of each nominee to his nomination shall be lodged with the Returning Officer not less than seven days prior to the date of the election.

(15) The Returning Officer shall thereupon prepare a list of nominated candidates and send a copy thereof to each of the said local authorities, which shall at the meeting fixed as aforesaid, by resolution allocate its prescribed number of votes to each of not more than two candidates, and lodge a sealed copy of such resolution with the Returning Officer within forty-eight hours after the time fixed for the meeting.

(16) In the event of an equality of votes the Returning Officer shall have a casting-vote, or two casting-votes if necessary, to enable the issue to be decided.

(17) The Returning Officer shall report the result of the election to each local authority and to the Minister of Internal Affairs.

(18) No failure on the part of any of the said local authorities to hold a meeting as hereby prescribed, or to carry at such meeting a resolution allocating its votes, or to lodge a sealed copy of such resolution with the Returning Officer within the time hereby prescribed, or otherwise to exercise its power of voting shall affect the regularity of any election.

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

(I.A. 1933/70/62.)

Prohibiting the use of Nets in Oriental Bay, Wellington Harbour.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of January, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is expedient to make regulations prohibiting the use of nets for the purpose of taking fish in the waters hereinafter described:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the fifth section of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes aforesaid; and doth hereby order and declare that these regulations shall come into force on the date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. No person shall, during the months of November, December, January, February, March, and April, put, throw, drag, draw, or place, or allow to be put, thrown, dragged, drawn, or placed, any net of any description for the purpose of taking fish of any description whatsoever within those waters of Oriental Bay, Wellington Harbour, inside a straight line drawn from the north-eastern corner of the Te Aro Baths to a point on the foreshore approximately 200 yards north-east of the Band Rotunda.

2. Any person committing a breach of the foregoing regulation shall be liable to a fine of £20.

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

Recreation Reserve in Canterbury Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of January, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the thirty-fourth section of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the same is hereby, brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter form part of the Rangiora Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain by the Rangiora Domain Board.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

RESERVE 4310, Block VII, Rangiora Survey District: Area, 2 acres 3 roods 23·9 perches.

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

(L. and S. 1/188.)

Recreation Reserve in Nelson Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of January, 1933.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the thirty-fourth section of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Nelson Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of, and declared to be subject to, the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter form part of the Wai-iti Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain by the Wai-iti Domain Board.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, situated in Block XV, Wai-iti Survey District, containing 2 acres, more or less, and being part of the land conveyed to the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson as part of Section No. 156, of Waimea South Original District, which said Section No. 156 was part of the land originally Crown-granted as Section No. X of Waimea South Original District: Bounded towards the west by the Wai-iti River; towards the north by main road; towards the east by a road; and towards the south-west by the Wai-iti River; exempting therefrom that portion of the Murchison-Nelson Railway Reserve lying within the foregoing area. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/184, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

(L. and S. 1/184.)