JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1611

Honorary Inspectors of Scenic Reserves appointed.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Kenneth Moncrief Wright,
Maurice Edward William Fitzgerald,
John William Civil,
Arnold Adler Woodward,
Andrew James Dow,
Calwall John Walter Parsons,
John Brock Watt,
David Kennedy,
Gerald Hoyte Hocking, and
Alleyne Guy Kentish Mayfield

to be Honorary Inspectors under the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 5th day of July, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/448.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Hutchinson Scenic Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely :—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Hawke’s Bay Land District, ex officio,
The Member for Hawke’s Bay Electoral District, ex officio,
The Member of the Hawke’s Bay County Council representing the Puketapu Riding, ex officio,
Amy Hadfield Hutchinson,
Arthur Richard Hutchinson Absolom,
Arthur Gruchy Clark,
Francis Edgar Smith, and
Theodore George Simcox,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Hutchinson Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Friday, the eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, at two-thirty o’clock p.m., at the Lands and Survey Office, Napier, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the second Friday in the months of October, January, April, and July in each year, at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting is given to 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 four 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 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.

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

SCHEDULE.

HUTCHINSON SCENIC RESERVE.

Hawke’s Bay Land District.

ALL that area situated in Block XIV, Pohui Survey District, containing by admeasurement 88 acres 3 roods 6 perches, more or less, being Lots 3 and 13, D.P. 6529, being part Block 13, Patoka Crown Grant District, and part Rural Section 9, Puketitiri Reserve, and part Section 60, Block XIV, Pohui Survey District. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/774, 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 1st day of July, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/774.)

Notifying the proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District for other Land.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange :

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District containing by admeasurement 3 acres, more or less, being part of Section 6, Block IX, Te Mata Survey District, as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/4154A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District containing by admeasurement 3 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks IX and X, Te Mata Survey District, being part of Te Mahanga South Block, and being also Lots 1 and 2, Deposited Plan 6596, as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/4154A, 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 5th day of July, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/4154.)