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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 96

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 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 Wairau Valley 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.

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SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 2, Town of Wairau Valley: Area, 2 roods, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 22/2495.)

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Variation of Order in Council exempting certain Native Land from Rates.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section one hundred and four of the Rating Act, 1925, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby vary the Order in Council made on the sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the Gazette of the ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, at page 2286, exempting Allotment 260A and other allotments of the Parish of Waimana from rates, by excluding therefrom the land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Allotment 260B No. 3 of the Parish of Waimana, containing 32·6 perches, at present leased to one Samuel Angel.

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

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Exempting Crown Land in Karamea Mining District from Mining under the Mining Act, 1926.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from that Act, or any specified provisions of that Act; and that the lands to which any such notice relates shall be specified therein by words of particular description:

And whereas it is desirable that the Crown land specified in the Schedule hereto shall, subject to all existing registered mining privileges, be exempted from mining:

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby exempt the land particularly described in the Schedule hereto from mining under the provisions of that Act, subject to all existing registered mining privileges; and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect from the date of the gazetting hereof.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 200 acres, more or less, being Section 35, Block IV, Kawatiri Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of December, 1935.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 6/4/51.)

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Appointment of Members of Revaluation Committees.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 14th December, 1935.

PURSUANT to the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section two hundred and sixteen of the Land Act, 1924, I, Frank Langstone, Minister of Lands for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the undermentioned persons to be members of revaluation committees for the land districts as set out in each case hereunder, such appointment to be for a period of two years from the date hereof:—

North Auckland Land District—
Alfred Faithfull, jun., of Okaihau, Farmer.
James Allison Stein Hemphill, of Kirikopuni, Farmer.
John Garton, of Oruru, Farmer.
Joseph Edward Leach, of Wellsford, Farmer.
Alexander David Bell, of Clevedon, Farmer.
Lawrence Scotland Gillespie, of Waimauku, Farmer.

Auckland Land District—
Samuel Steele, of Tauranga, Retired.
Rodolph Boddy, of Pio Pio, Farmer.
John Motion, of Ngatea, Farmer.
John James Smyth, of Ngongotaha, Farmer.
John Frederick Vercoe, of Hamilton, Farmer.

Gisborne Land District—
Hugh John Langdon Telford, of Te Karaka, Sheep-farmer.

Hawke’s Bay Land District—
Charles Pattison, of Waipawa, Sheep-farmer.
John Herbert Absolom, of Rissington, Sheep-farmer.

Taranaki Land District—
Eric Butterfield Roberton, of Tahora, Farmer.
Arthur Turner Wills, of Hawera, Farmer.

Wellington Land District—
Robert Gillies Wall, of Ohau, Farmer.
Henry Albert Belk, of Ohutu, Farmer.
Sir Herbert Ernest Hart, K.B.E.,C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., of Masterton, Solicitor.

Marlborough Land District—
William Kennington, of Okaramio, Farmer.

Nelson Land District—
Leslie Alfred Higgins, of Belgrove, Farmer.

Westland Land District—
George Albert Perry, of Hokitika, Merchant.

Canterbury Land District—
John George Armstrong, of Marshland, Farmer.
John Moore, of Ruapuna, Farmer.
Kenneth MacKenzie, of Geraldine, Farmer.

Otago Land District—
William Edward Aubrey, of Georgetown (North Otago), Farmer.
Ernest Atkinson, of St. Kilda, Valuer.
Dickson Jardine, of Queenstown, Runholder.

Southland Land District—
David Marshall, of Invercargill, Farmer.
William Baylis Hopcroft, of Gummies Bush, Farmer.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 32/1.)