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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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 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 public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Hapuku and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said building 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 building.

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SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that land containing by admeasurement 1 rood, being part Section 68, Block V, Mount Fyffe Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 54852 (3), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 22/3472.)

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Regulations providing for the Registration of Births and Deaths of Maoris.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of February, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section sixty of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, 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, doth hereby make the following regulations.

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REGULATIONS.

I. Preliminary.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations, 1935, and shall come into force on the 1st day of May, 1935.

2. The regulations made under section 20 of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act, 1912, on the 19th day of March, 1913, and published in the Gazette on the 27th day of March, 1913, shall be revoked on the coming into force of these regulations:

Provided that all appointments of Registrars and Deputy Registrars made under the regulations hereby revoked and in force at the commencement of these regulations shall enure as if they had been made under the provisions of these regulations, and any matter pending under the regulations hereby revoked may be completed under these regulations or (notwithstanding such revocation) under the regulations hereby revoked.

3. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context—

“Registrar” means a Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed as hereinafter provided, and includes a deputy appointed as aforesaid, of any such registrar:

“Maori” means a person belonging to the aboriginal race of New Zealand, and includes a half-caste and a person intermediate in blood between half-castes and persons of pure descent from that race.

II. Appointment and Duties of Registrars.

4. Fit persons may from time to time be appointed to act as Registrars of Births and Deaths of Maoris at such places as the Registrar-General may from time to time determine, and a fit person may from time to time be appointed to be the Deputy of any such Registrar.

5. Any appointment to the position of Registrar (including the Deputy of a Registrar) of a person subject to the Public Service Act, 1912, or so as to be subject to that Act, shall be made by the Public Service Commissioner pursuant to that Act, and any other appointment shall be made by the Registrar-General by writing under his hand.

6. Any such appointment if made by the Public Service Commissioner may be revoked pursuant to the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, and if made by the Registrar-General may be revoked by him at his discretion.

7. The publication in the Gazette of a notice of the appointment of any person shall be prima facie evidence that he has been duly appointed and that his appointment remains in force.

8. Every Registrar shall in every case inform himself carefully of the particulars touching births and deaths required to be registered by him, and shall, without fee or reward, enter and register all such particulars (if not already registered) in the form numbered 1 or in the form numbered 2 in the First Schedule hereto, as the case may be. The registers in the form as aforesaid shall be printed in both the English and the Maori language.

9. If to the knowledge of the Registrar any person named in any entry to be made in the registers has at any time been generally called or known by any other name, every such name shall be entered in the register with the explanation, “formerly known as ” or “also known as ”, or as the case may require.

10. Every Registrar, in addition to the duties prescribed by these regulations, shall perform such general duties pertaining to his office as he is called upon to perform by the Registrar-General.

III. Registration of Births of Maoris.

11. Within two months after the date of birth of any Maori child information of the particulars mentioned in the form numbered (1) in the First Schedule hereto, and hereby required to be registered touching the birth, shall be given to the Registrar nearest by the most convenient route to the place where the birth occurred: Provided that any other Registrar may register such birth if it is shown to his satisfaction that any person whose duty it is to give such information could not without considerable difficulty, delay, or expense attend at the office of the Registrar first above mentioned. In such case the Registrar who registers such birth shall immediately notify that fact to the Registrar nearest to the place where the birth occurred.

12. The persons hereinafter specified shall be responsible for duly furnishing to the Registrar the information hereinbefore referred to in respect of the birth of any Maori child:—

(a) The father and mother of the child:

(b) Every occupier of the house or building in which the child was born:

(c) Any person present at the birth of the child.

13. Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding regulation, if any of the persons therein enumerated duly furnishes the required information the others of those persons shall thereupon be released from the obligation to furnish such information.

14. The Registrar may register the birth of any Maori child upon being furnished with the information hereinbefore referred to by—

(a) The Chairman or any member of a Maori Council having a knowledge of the facts:

(b) Any minister of religion officiating in the district and having a knowledge of the facts:

(c) Any person who satisfies the Registrar that he is possessed of the necessary knowledge of the facts and that the information supplied by him is correct.

15. Upon receipt of the particulars as aforesaid of the birth of any Maori child, the Registrar shall register the birth by entering such particulars in the Register of Births and on a duplicate sheet to be supplied for the purpose by the Registrar-General.

16. Upon receipt of any particulars of birth of any Maori child which the Registrar deems sufficient, the Registrar may register the birth by entering such particulars in the Register of Births and on the duplicate sheet aforesaid, notwithstanding that the full particulars required by these regulations have not been furnished.

17. Upon completing the entries in the register and on the duplicate sheet aforesaid, the Registrar shall request the informant, if then present, to sign the same, but the informant shall not be obliged to sign such entries if he objects so to do.