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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 33

“Rental car” means a motor-car let on hire to any person who himself drives or provides a driver, but does not include a passenger-service vehicle as defined in the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, and does not include a vehicle let under a hire-purchase agreement but not let on any further contract of hire:

“Private hire car” means a public motor-vehicle which is not a passenger-service vehicle as defined in the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, and is not a public motor-car as defined in the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1927:

“Tractor” means a vehicle or locomotive of the class of locomotive propelled by mechanical power and known as the tractor if exclusively used otherwise than as a vehicle for the carriage of passengers (other than the driver) or goods.

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

(T.T. 9/8.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Cape Kidnapper Bird Sanctuary Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1933.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by deed bearing date the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, conveyed to His Majesty the King as a reserve for the protection of gannets:

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 for the protection of gannets resorting thereto 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:—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Hawke’s Bay Land District (ex officio),
The President of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute (ex officio),
Henry Hill,
Thomas Charles Moore,
Arthur Gruchy Clark,
Edward Staniland West, and
Engelhardt Rudolph Bruun Nielsen,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Cape Kidnapper Bird Sanctuary 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 second Friday in the months of May and November, at four o’clock p.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, 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 Friday, the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.

2. 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.

3. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be Chairman of the Board, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

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 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 of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board is hereby empowered to—
   (a) Prohibit all persons (either with or without any firearms, explosives, or any weapon or instrument of a dangerous nature whatsoever) from trespassing on the reserve:
   (b) Prohibit the taking, destruction, or disturbance in any manner of any bird, or the eggs of any bird, within the limits of the reserve:
   (c) Prohibit the lighting of any fire on the reserve:
   (d) Destroy, or authorize any person to destroy, any dog found within the limits of the reserve:
   (e) Take legal proceedings, or authorize any person to take such proceedings on its behalf, against any person who wilfully damages any fence, gate, or barrier, or other property belonging to or under the control of the Board, or who commits any act which the Board is hereby empowered to prohibit.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 31 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 1, Block III, Kidnapper Survey District: Bounded towards the north generally by Hawke’s Bay; towards the south-east generally by the South Pacific Ocean; towards the south generally by part Block 7, Kidnapper Crown-grant District, 8877·22 links; and towards the north-west by said part Block 7, 168·9 links.

Also two areas, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 24 perches and 16 perches, more or less, respectively, being islands situated off Cape Kidnapper.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 126/25, 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. 4/184.)

Vesting a Reserve in the Wathemo County Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1933.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto had been duly set apart as a site for a Public Library and Athenaeum:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Waihemo:

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 nine of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Waihemo, in trust, as a site for a Public Library and Athenaeum.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
Section 3, Block IV, Town of Macraes: Area, 37 perches.

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

(L. and S. 9/2847.)