3786
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 87

Variation of Order in Council prohibiting Alienation of Native Land.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of November, 1934.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section four hundred and forty-two of the Native Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby vary an Order in Council made on the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and published in the Gazette of the seventeenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, at page 547, and affecting Awaawakino A and other blocks by excluding therefrom the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Block: Maungaroa 1 Section 15. Area: 8 acres 3 roods 6 perches. Survey District: Te Kaha.

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

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Ratanui Memorial Public Hall Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of November, 1934.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in Gazette of the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, 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:—

Robert Francis Chalmers,
Robert John Telfer,
Alexander Williams,
William Elmslie Craigie,
William Falconer,
Derby Slater, and
John William Allan,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Ratanui Memorial 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 at the Ratanui Memorial Public Hall, or at such other place and at such time as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Saturday, the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.

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 four 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 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 shall control the said reserve and the building erected thereon for the purposes of a memorial public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Ratanui 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 29, Block III, Woodland Survey District: Area, 1 rood 2 perches.

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

(L. and S. 22/3246.)

Cancellation of Notice placing the Kaikorai River under the Control of the Taieri County Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by a notice dated the twelfth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the Gazette for the year one thousand nine hundred and six, at page 2726, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand notified that the Kaikorai River with its branches and tributary streams situated in or flowing through the County of Taieri, the Borough of Green Island, Mornington, Roslyn, and Maori Hill, in the Provincial District of Otago, was placed under the control of the Taieri County Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Health Act, 1920, and of all other powers and authorities him thereunto enabling, hereby notifies that the said notice is revoked. This notification shall take effect from the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of November, 1934.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, 1927, amended.

AMENDMENTS No. 40.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General, do hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, published in the Gazette dated the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and I do hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall take effect as from date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES, 1927.

1. PARAGRAPH 209 (as amended by Gazette dated 6th October, 1927), line 2: Delete the words “except in the General Duty Section,” and substitute “except in the Royal N.Z. Air Force and the General Duty Section.”

2. After paragraph 209 (as amended by Gazette dated 6th October, 1927), add the following new paragraph:—

“209A. In the Royal N.Z. Air Force warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men may, if recommended, be