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9. It shall be the duty of the Mayor of the City of Auckland to cause a meeting of the Auckland City Council to be held for the purpose of conducting an election under this Order whenever necessary.

10. It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk of the Auckland City Council immediately following any election by the Auckland City Council under this Order to give notice thereof in writing to the Returning Officer who shall notify the Minister of Internal Affairs accordingly.

11. Unless an extraordinary vacancy otherwise requires, the next election of local authority members shall take place by means of meetings to be held in the first week of the month of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, on a day and at a time to be fixed by the Returning Officer.

12. Subsequent elections of local authority members shall take place by means of meetings to be held in the first week of the month of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-one and in every third year thereafter on a day and at a time fixed from time to time by the Returning Officer.

13. In the case of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a local authority member an election shall take place by means of meetings to be held on a date and at a time fixed by the Returning Officer, being not more than one month after the giving of the notice hereinafter required to be given by the Returning Officer.

14. (a) In the month of April in every year in which an election of local authority members is to take place; and

(b) So soon as he has knowledge of any extraordinary vacancy in the office of a local authority member;

the Returning Officer shall give notice in writing of the necessary election to each of the local authorities stating the date and time fixed for the aforesaid meetings (which date and time shall be the same in respect of each of the local authorities), and shall in such notice set out the number of votes exercisable by each of the local authorities in terms of section seven of the said Act.

15. Each of the local authorities may nominate candidates (not exceeding in number the number required to be elected) by resolution, a sealed copy of which, together with the written consent of each nominee to his nomination, shall be lodged with the Returning Officer not less than seven days prior to the date fixed by the Returning Officer for the meetings aforesaid.

16. The Returning Officer shall thereupon prepare a list of nominated candidates and send a copy thereof to each of the local authorities which shall, at the meeting fixed by the Returning Officer as aforesaid, by resolution allocate its prescribed number of votes to each of not more than two candidates, and lodge a sealed copy of such resolution with the Returning Officer within forty-eight hours after the time fixed for the meeting.

17. It shall be the duty of the Mayor or Chairman (as the case may be) of each local authority to cause meetings of such local authority to be held whenever necessary—

(a) For the purpose of nominating candidates (such meetings to be held so that any nomination decided on can be lodged with the Returning Officer within the time specified by clause fifteen hereof):

(b) For the purpose of conducting an election (such meetings to be held at the date and time notified by the Returning Officer).

18. In the event of an equality of votes, the Returning Officer shall have a casting-vote, or two casting-votes if necessary, to enable the issue to be decided.

19. The Returning Officer shall give public notice of the result of the election and report such result to each local authority and to the Minister of Internal Affairs.

20. No failure on the part of any local authority to hold any meeting as hereby prescribed, or to carry at such meeting a resolution allocating its votes, or to lodge a sealed copy of such resolution with the Returning Officer within the time hereby prescribed, or otherwise to exercise its power of voting shall affect the regularity of any election.

21. Every city member shall be deemed to be elected when the notice of his election given by the Town Clerk is received by the Returning Officer, and every local authority member shall be deemed to be elected when public notice of the election is given by the Returning Officer.

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

(I.A. 1933/70/62.)

Consenting to the Acquisition of an Aerodrome-site by the Wairoa County Council and the Wairoa Borough Council.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 1936.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority vested in him by the Local Authorities Empowering (Aviation Encouragement) Act, 1929, 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 consent to the acquisition by the Wairoa County Council and the Wairoa Borough Council of the land described in the Schedule hereto, and to the establishment and maintenance of an aerodrome thereon.

SCHEDULE.

Te Rato 3d 3c Section 2, Block I, Clyde Survey District, comprising 60 acres 0 roods 31 perches.

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

Consenting to Stopping Portions of Road in Block IX, Te Mata Survey District, Hawke’s Bay County.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of March, 1936.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 consent to the Hawke’s Bay County Council stopping the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road permitted to be stopped:—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
3 3 39·6 Poukawa N.R. Nos. 9G and 9J.
1 0 16·3 Poukawa N.R. Nos. 9H and 12A.
2 0 39·8 Poukawa N.R. No. 10.
1 0 16·45 Poukawa N.R. No. 11E.

Situated in Block IX, Te Mata Survey District (Hawke’s Bay R.D.). (S.O. 1104, green.)

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 91625, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

(P.W. 40/468.)

Constituting the Pahiatua Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3383.)

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of May, 1936.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by section thirty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on petition in that behalf signed by a majority of the persons qualified to be enrolled on the ratepayers’ list for any proposed district, constitute and declare any area of land of not less than one thousand acres a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act:

And whereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section thirty of the said Act, a petition has been received praying that the area of land described in the Schedule