1738
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

Reappointing Chairman of the Government Railways Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1935.

Present:

THE HON. SIR ALEXANDER YOUNG PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1931, it is enacted as follows:—
“2. (1) There is hereby constituted a Board which shall be known as the Government Railways Board (hereinafter in this Act called ‘the Board’).
“(2) The Board shall consist of five persons to be from time to time appointed by the Governor-General in Council. One such member shall be so appointed as Chairman of the Board.
“(3) The first person appointed as Chairman of the Board shall hold office as a member of the Board and as Chairman thereof for a period of four years from the date of his appointment. Every subsequent such appointment shall be for a period of three years.
“(4) Of the first members of the Board other than the Chairman, two shall be appointed for a period of two years and two shall be appointed for a period of three years from the date of their respective appointments, and thereafter every such member of the Board shall be appointed for a period of two years from the date of his appointment.
“(5) On the termination of the period for which he was appointed every person appointed as aforesaid shall cease to be a member of the Board, but shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be eligible for reappointment.”

And whereas the term of appointment of Herbert Harry Sterling, Esquire, C.M.G., of Wellington, as Chairman of the said Board will expire on the 8th day of June, 1935:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby reappoint the said Herbert Harry Sterling, Esquire, to be Chairman of the said Board for the statutory term of three years, such term to commence on the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Reappointing Members of the Government Railways Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1935.

Present:

THE HON. SIR ALEXANDER YOUNG PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1931, it is enacted as follows:—
“2. (1) There is hereby constituted a Board which shall be known as the Government Railways Board (hereinafter in this Act called ‘the Board’).
“(2) The Board shall consist of five persons to be from time to time appointed by the Governor-General in Council. One such member shall be so appointed as Chairman of the Board.
“(3) The first person appointed as Chairman of the Board shall hold office as a member of the Board and as Chairman thereof for a period of four years from the date of his appointment. Every subsequent such appointment shall be for a period of three years.
“(4) Of the first members of the Board other than the Chairman, two shall be appointed for a period of two years and two shall be appointed for a period of three years from the date of their respective appointments, and thereafter every such member of the Board shall be appointed for a period of two years from the date of his appointment.
“(5) On the termination of the period for which he was appointed every person appointed as aforesaid shall cease to be a member of the Board, but shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be eligible for reappointment.”

And whereas the respective terms of appointment of Edward Newman, Esquire, C.M.G., of Marton, and George Walter Reid, Esquire, B.Com., F.P.A., N.Z., of Dunedin, as members of the Government Railways Board have expired:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said enactment, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby reappoint the said Edward Newman, Esquire, and the said George Walter Reid, Esquire, to be members of the Government Railways Board for a further period of two years as from and including the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing a Member of the Government Railways Board to be Acting-Chairman of the Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of April, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection one of section seven of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1931, that in the case of any absence of the Chairman of the Government Railways Board the Governor-General in Council may appoint such person as he thinks fit (not being a person disqualified for appointment) as Acting-Chairman; and whereas the Chairman of the said Board is about to be absent from New Zealand for a period:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers contained in the said subsection, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint Sir James Henry Gunson, C.M.G., C.B.E., a member of the Government Railways Board, to be the Acting-Chairman thereof during the said absence of the Chairman.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Transferring to the Court of Review of Mortgagors’ Liabilities certain functions of the Supreme Court and of a Stipendiary Magistrate under the Mortgagors and Tenants Relief Act, 1933.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of June, 1935.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. MASTERS PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to sections five and seventy-six of the Rural Mortgagors Final Adjustment Act, 1934–35, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby transfer to the Court of Review of Mortgagors’ Liabilities constituted under that Act all the functions of the Supreme Court and of a Stipendiary Magistrate under the Mortgagors and Tenants Relief Act, 1933, in relation to every application for relief heretofore made or hereafter made by any person in respect of a mortgage or lease over land that is declared or deemed by the tribunal (whether the Supreme Court, a Stipendiary Magistrate, or the said Court of Review) to which the application is made in the first instance to be land used exclusively or principally for agricultural purposes as defined in the Act first above mentioned; and doth hereby declare as follows:—
(1) That if upon any application for relief any question arises as to whether any lands are used exclusively or principally for agricultural purposes the question shall be determined by the tribunal to which the application is made in the first instance:
(2) That such determination shall be final:
(3) That a decision by any such tribunal upon the merits of any application made before it relating to a mortgage or lease over land shall be conclusive evidence that such tribunal has deemed such land to be or (as the case may require) not to be land used exclusively or principally for agricultural purposes as defined in the Act first above mentioned:
(4) That this Order in Council shall come into force on the seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.