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,--
Duncan MacDonald,
Anthony Thomas Kubala,
James Fraser Grant,
Thomas Nicholson, and
John Tuach,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Croydon 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 on
   the last Friday in each month at 8 o'clock p.m. at the Croydon
   Public Hall, 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 17th day of May, 1935.
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 three 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 the 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 31st 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 public hall, and shall
   also afford settlers and residents of Croydon 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.
   ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by
   admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being part Section 122,
   Block LXXI, Hokonui Survey District: Bounded towards
   the north-west by a public road, 500 links; towards the
   north-east by part Section 122, Block LXXI aforesaid,
   205:12 links; towards the south-east by part Section 122
   aforesaid, 500 links; and towards the south-west by a public
   road, 205·12 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
   As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S.
   22/690, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands
   and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
   A. W. MULLIGAN,
   Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
   (L. and S. 22/690.)
   Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Raurimu Public Hall
   Board.
   GALWAY, Governor-General.
   ORDER IN COUNCIL.
   At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of
   May, 1935.
   Present :
   His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
   WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
   was by Warrant published in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve,
   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,--
   Henry Fiveash,
   William Valentine Henderson,
   William Henry McNamara,
   William Sheehan, and
   Fredrick Martin Furze,
   who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
   by the name of the Raurimu Public Hall Board (hereinafter
   referred to as “the Board”), with the powers and subject
   to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say :-
10. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on
    the last Thursday in each month, at eight o’clock p.m., at the
    Raurimu Public Hall, 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 Thursday, the 30th day of May, 1935.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum.
    Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
14. 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.
15. If by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise the
    seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any
    members 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.
16. All questions shall be determined by the majority of
    votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.
17. 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 31st 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.
18. The Board shall control the said reserve and the building
    erected thereon for the purposes of a public hall, and shall
    also afford settlers and residents of Raurimu 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.
    ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
    by admeasurement 31 perches, more or less, being Section 7,
    Block II, Raurimu Township: Bounded towards the north-west
    by Section 6, 282 links; towards the north-east by
    the Waiouru-Taumarunui Road, 75 links; towards the south-east
    by Section 8, 250 links; and towards the south-west
    by Crown land, 81·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages
    more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked
    L. 1911/1641, deposited in the Head Office, Department
    of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered
    red.
    A. W. MULLIGAN,
    Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
    (L. and S. 1911/1641.)