2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days' notice of any 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.

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

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be Chairman of the Board, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

5. 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 of such meeting.

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 May 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 of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board is hereby empowered to—

(a) Prohibit all persons (either with or without any firearms, explosives, or any weapon or instrument of a dangerous nature whatsoever) from trespassing on the reserve :

(b) Prohibit the taking, destruction, or disturbance in any manner of any bird, or the eggs of any bird, within the limits of the reserve :

(c) Prohibit the lighting of any fire on the reserve :

(d) Destroy, or authorize any person to destroy, any dog found within the limits of the reserve :

(e) Take legal proceedings, or authorize any person to take such proceedings on its behalf, against any person who wilfully damages any fence, gate, or barrier, or other property belonging to or under the control of the Board, or who commits any act which the Board is hereby empowered to prohibit.

SCHEDULE.

Hawke’s Bay Land District.

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 31 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section I, Block III, Kidnapper Survey District : Bounded towards the north generally by Hawke’s Bay; towards the south-east generally by the South Pacific Ocean; towards the south generally by part Block 7, Kidnapper Crown-grant District, 5877-22 links; and towards the north-west by said part Block 7, 168-9 links.

Also two areas, containing by admeasurement I rood 24 perches and 16 perches, more or less, respectively, being islands situated off Cape Kidnapper.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less : As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 126/25, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

(L. and S. 4/184.)

the First Schedule hereto, and at the date hereof lying to the credit of the said domain, a sum not exceeding fifty pounds shall be applied in managing, administering, and improving the Patea Domain described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PUKEARUHE DOMAIN.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS l to 6, 13 to 15, and 25 to 30, Town of Pukearuhe, Block VI, Mimi Survey District : Area, 15 acres, more or less.

Section 2, Pukearuhe Town Belt, Block VI, Mimi Survey District : Area, 9 acres, more or less.

Also Section 9, Pukearuhe Town Belt, Block VI, Mimi Survey District : Area, 5 acres 3 roods, more or less.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

PATEA DOMAIN.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

BLOCKS XLIV and XLV, Town of Patea, Block VII, Carlyle Survey District : Area, 65 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. l/120 and l/148.)

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Simson Park Domain.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of August, 1938.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. M. J. SAVAGE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-four of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 appoint

George Leonard Leaity,
Anthony Edward Joseph Corr,
John William McAulay,
James Gray Ritchie, and
Harry Ernest Worsp

to be the Simson Park Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto ; and doth hereby appoint Wednesday, the fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, at ten-thirty o’clock a.m., as the time when, and the Picture Hall, Moerewa, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

SIMSON PARK DOMAIN.—NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Bay of Islands County, situated in Block XV, Kawakawa Survey District, containing by admeasurement 14 acres 3 roods 19-9 perches, more or less, being portion of Lot 2 as shown on a plan deposited at the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, and numbered 23067, and being part Allotment 140, Kawakawa Parish, bounded as follows: Commencing at a point being the northernmost corner of Lot 1 on a plan deposited at the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, and numbered 15044, and being part Allotment 140 aforementioned; thence on the south-east generally by Lot 1 on plan 15044 aforementioned, by the North Auckland Main Trunk Railway, and by part Lot 2 on a plan deposited at the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, and numbered 12753, and being part Allotment 140 aforementioned, bearing 235° 11’ distance 700 links, bearing 145° 11’ 30” distance 571 links, bearing 235° 10’ 30” distance 301-6 links, bearing 325° 12’ distance 199 links, bearing 235° 12’ distance 361-7 links ; thence on the south-west by part Lot 2 on plan 12753 aforementioned, bearing 323° 43’ 30” distance 1634-3 links; thence on the north-west generally by a public road and by part Lot 2 on plan 12753 aforementioned, bearing 69° 01’ 30” distance 155-5 links, bearing 143° 43’ 30” distance 302-5 links, bearing 65° 50’ distance 1267-9 links ; thence on the north-east by a public road bearing 145° 11’ 30” distance 688 links, to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/904, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

L. and S. 1/904.)

Directing Application of Moneys received in respect of the Pukearuhe Domain, Taranaki Land District, for the Purposes of the Patea Domain.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of August, 1938.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. M. J. SAVAGE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by section sixty-one of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 direct that from the moneys received in respect of the Pukearuhe Domain, described in