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any meeting of both the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman, the members present shall appoint one of their number to be the Chairman of that meeting.

7. A committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper. Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and, in case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or casting-vote.

8. All acts done by any meeting of the Board or of a committee of the Board, or by any person acting as a member of the Board or of a committee shall, notwithstanding that it may afterwards be discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of such member or person as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and so qualified to be a member.

ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.

9. The books of account shall be kept at the Head Office of the Corporation in Wellington. Such books and all records of the Corporation shall always be open to the inspection of the Minister and any member of the Board.

THE SEAL.

10. The seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Board or of a committee of the Board authorized by the Board for the purpose, and in the presence of a member of the Board and of the Secretary or such other officer as the Board or committee may appoint for the purpose; and that member of the Board and the Secretary or other officer as aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which the seal of the Corporation is so affixed in their presence.

MISCELLANEOUS.

11. In deciding whether it will accept as security for any loan granted by it a mortgage under the provisions of section 32 of the State Advances Corporation Act, 1936, the Board may also decide the proportion of the loan that shall be repayable in one sum at the due date

of the last instalment, having regard, first, to the unimproved value of the applicant's interest in the land, and, secondly, to the value of the applicant's interest in the improvements which are of such a nature that they will, at the due date of such last instalment, be still subsisting on the land.

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

Amending the Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces.

AMENDMENTS NO. 52.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto the regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces published in the Gazette dated the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and I do hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall take effect as from date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE N.Z. MILITARY FORCES, 1927.

PERMISSION TO MARRY: N.Z. REGULAR FORCES.

Paragraph 623 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted:—

“623. Permission to marry will be granted only by the General Officer Commanding, and will not normally be given to members of the N.Z. Regular Forces unless they—

“(a) Have served for three years from the date of first enlistment; and

“(b) Have attained the age of 25 years.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of July, 1936.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Lands temporarily reserved in the North Auckland, Auckland, Nelson, Marlborough, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago Land Districts.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section three hundred and fifty-nine of the Land Act, 1924, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby temporarily reserve the lands in the North Auckland, Auckland, Nelson, Marlborough, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago Land Districts described in the Schedule hereunder written for the purposes specified in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Punakitere S.D.* | 11 | XV | A. R. P. 3 3 27 | Public-school site (Gammon’s Road).

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Tauhara S.D. | 34 | II | 99 0 20 | Recreation.

Aongatete S.D. | 7 | IV | 10 2 28 | Resting-place for travelling stock.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Waitapu S.D. | 20 (originally part 8) | V | 98 1 0 | Aerodrome.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Pine Valley S.D. | 2 of 2 | XVIII | 1 0 0 | Public-hall site.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Haupiri S.D. | Reserve 241 | V | 4 2 30 | Gravel.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

Cheviot S.D. | Reserve 4361 (Cheviot Estate) | XI | 1 0 0 | Recreation.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Tiger Hill S.D. | 13 | IV | 7 2 35 | Gravel.

*Survey district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of July, 1936.

(L. and S. 6/6/620.) W. LEE MARTIN, for Minister of Lands.