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the northernmost corner of Section 24, Block VII, Ruakaka Survey District; on the north-west by that road bearing 27° 14' 30", distance 988·6 links, and on the north-east and south-east by Crown land, Block VII, Ruakaka Survey District, by lines bearing 135° 03' 30", distance 302·4 links, bearing 225° 02', distance 941·2 links, to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 15/133c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow. (North Auckland plan 28701.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of January, 1933.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/133.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Orari Gorge Scenic Board.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,–

Arthur John Blakiston,
Alexander Adamson,
Stanley James Neutze,
William McLeod, and
Robert Yates,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Orari Gorge Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,–

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Saturday, the fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, at seven o'clock p.m., in the Tripp Schoolhouse, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Saturday in each month at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

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 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. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. 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 for such meeting.

7. 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.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit 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 thirty-first 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

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SCHEDULE.

ORARI GORGE SCENIC RESERVE.

Canterbury Land District.

RESERVE 3811, Block XII, Four Peaks Survey District: Area, 197 acres 2 roods.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of January, 1933.

E. A. RANSOM,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/159.)

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Lands permanently reserved.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette :

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrant the date of which is specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notification of which was published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule :

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid,

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SCHEDULE.

*Survey district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of January, 1933.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 2/580.)