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each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any five members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. 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 for such meeting.

7. 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.

8. The Board may, with the approval of the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation, make such rules as it deems necessary for the good conduct of the public frequenting the reserves, and may set apart areas for camping-grounds or other purposes, and may fix reasonable charges for the use thereof in accordance with a scale to be approved from time to time by the Minister.

9. The Board shall prepare and submit 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

10. The Board shall control the said reserves in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

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SCHEDULE.

HUNDALEE SCENIC RESERVES.—MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of March, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 505.)

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Land temporarily reserved in the Canterbury Land District for Recreation Purposes.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

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 the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve the land in the Canterbury Land District, described in the Schedule hereunder written, for recreation purposes.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 9 acres 3 roods 35 perches, more or less, being part Reserve 4387 (formerly parts of Rural Sections 811 and 589), situated in Block III, Christchurch Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the south-west by Rural Section 419, 1042·85 links; towards the north-west by Crown land and other parts of Rural Sections 589 and 811, 1000 links; towards the north-east by Rural Section 1527, 1000 links; and towards the south-east by Rural Section 26420 and the Kaputone Stream. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/951c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of March, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/951.)

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Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Alfred Allan Besley, being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Dunedin, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of March, 1938.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

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Altering Boundaries of Waitomo and Ohura Counties and including Area in Aria Riding, Waitomo County.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section fourteen of the Counties Act, 1920, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area described in the First Schedule hereto, being now part of the Ohura County, shall be added to and form part of the Waitomo County; that the boundaries of the Waitomo and Ohura Counties as so altered shall be those set forth under the respective headings in the Second Schedule hereto; that the area added as aforesaid to the Waitomo County shall be included in the Aria Riding of the said county; and that the boundaries of the Aria Riding as so altered shall be those set forth in the Third Schedule hereto; and I also proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect as from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREA EXCLUDED FROM OHURA COUNTY AND INCLUDED IN WAITOMO COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded by a line commencing at the confluence of the Parahaka Stream and the Mokau River; thence up the Parahaka Stream to the north-eastern corner of Section Part 5b, Section 2, Umukaimata Block; thence southerly along the eastern boundaries of that section and of Section 10, Block V, Aria Survey District, and the eastern and southern boundaries of