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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Apportionment of Representation on Hospital Boards.

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of March, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926 (hereinafter called the said Act), His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council,—

1. Doth hereby revoke all Orders in Council made or enuring under the said Act and now in force relating to the combination of contributory districts of hospital districts, the representation on a hospital board of contributory districts, and the selection of principal contributory local authorities, being the Orders in Council referred to in the First Schedule hereto so far as the same have not already been revoked:

Provided that such revocation shall not affect—

(i) So much of the Order in Council of the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, as declares that the Bay of Islands County Council shall cease to be a Hospital Board;

(ii) So much of the Order in Council of the twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, as abolishes the hospital districts of Picton and Wairau and constitutes the hospital district of Marlborough;

(iii) So much of the Order in Council of the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, as abolishes the hospital districts of Waipu and Matakaoa and constitutes a new hospital district of Waipu.

2. Doth hereby combine into combined districts the respective contributory districts the names of which are set out in the second column of the Second Schedule hereto and therein bracketed together.

3. Doth hereby select and appoint the contributory local authorities the districts of which are distinguished in the second column of the Second Schedule hereto by the letter “ p ” to be the principal contributory local authorities of the respective combined districts in which such contributory local authorities are included respectively.

4. Doth hereby prescribe and determine that the number of members to be elected to the Boards of the hospital districts named in the first column of the Second Schedule hereto as the representative or representatives of the contributory districts and combined districts named or indicated in the second column thereof shall be the numbers specified in the third column thereof respectively.

5. Doth hereby make the following provision for particular cases :—

(a) The date of the first election of an additional representative for Opotiki Borough, Greymouth Borough, Christchurch City, Oamaru Borough, and for the combined districts of Lower Hutt and Eastbourne Boroughs and of the Invercargill City and South Invercargill Borough shall be the date of the next ordinary general election of Borough Councils.

(b) The first election of representatives for Waikato County, Marlborough County, and for the combined districts of Ohura County and Ohura Town District; Waipa County and Leamington Town District; Otorohanga County and Otorohanga Town District; Matamata County, Matamata Borough, and Putaruru Town District; Rotorua County, Taupo County, and Taupo Road District; and Amuri, Cheviot, and Kaikoura Counties shall take place on the date of the next ordinary general election of members of County Councils, and in the meantime the representatives of the districts or combined districts out of which they were created or in which they were grouped shall be deemed to be the representatives of the aforesaid counties or combined groups.

(c) The first election of a representative for Rotorua Borough, Brunner Borough, Runanga Borough, and of representatives for the combined districts of Ngaruawahia, Huntly, and Te Awamutu Boroughs; and of Cambridge, Morrinsville, and Te Aroha Boroughs, shall take place on the date of the next ordinary general election of members of Borough Councils, and in the meantime the representatives of the districts or combined districts in which they are grouped shall be deemed to be the representatives of the aforesaid boroughs or combined districts.

(d) The present representatives of the Opotiki County and representatives of the combined districts of Waitomo County and Te Kuiti Borough and of the Waitaki County and Hampden Borough shall continue to hold office until the date of the next ordinary general election of County Councils.

(e) The present representatives of the Wellington City and the representatives of the combined districts of Greymouth Borough and Cobden Town District shall continue to hold office until the date of the next ordinary general election of Borough Councils.

(f) The present representative on the Marlborough Hospital Board of the Sounds County (being a county in which the Counties Act, 1920, is not in force) shall continue to hold office until such time as his successor is appointed by the Governor-General in Council pursuant to section fifty-eight of the said Act.

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SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL REVOKED.

• Relating to Opotiki and Bay of Plenty Hospital Districts.
  † Relating to Dannevirke and Waipawa Hospital Districts.
  ‡ Relating to Palmerston North Hospital District.
  § Relating to Taranaki Hospital District.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.