OCT. 31.]

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 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 reserves in accordance
   with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—KAIATA SCENIC RESERVE.
RESERVE 1064, Block IX, Arnold Survey District : Area,
22 acres 3 roods 10 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 16th day of October, 1940.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/693.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Pounawea Scenic
Reserves 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 reserves 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,—

Peter Laughton,
John David Wilson Hogg,
William Friend,
John Reid Wilson,
John Cameron McLachlan,
Arthur Bruce Saunders,
Thomas McNab,
Henry Nicholas Johnson, and
John Randall Maginness,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Pounawea Scenic Reserves 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 Monday,
   the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred
   and forty, at seven-thirty o'clock p.m., at the Public Library,
   Owaka, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction
   of business on the third Monday in each quarter 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 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 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 reserves in accordance
   with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—POUNAWEA SCENIC RESERVES.
SECTION 82, Block VI, Glenomaru Survey District : Area,
4 acres 0 roods 17 perches, more or less.
Also Section 94, Block VI, Glenomaru Survey District :
Area, 51 acres 3 roods, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 23rd day of October, 1940.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/87.)

Revoking the Vesting of Control of certain Scenic Reserves in
the Board of Trustees of the Port Hills - Akaroa Summit
Road Public Trust (Incorporated).

GALWAY, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twenty-first day of
September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-
seven, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day
of that month, the control of the scenic reserves described
in the Schedule hereto was vested in the Board of Trustees
of the Port Hills-Akaroa Summit Road Public Trust
(Incorporated), subject to the conditions set forth in subsection
one of section twenty-six of the Reserves and other Lands
Disposal Act, 1926 :
And whereas the Trustees have failed to comply to the
satisfaction of the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation
with the said conditions generally, and it is desirable that the
aforesaid vesting of control should be revoked:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred upon me by subsection four of
section twenty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal
Act, 1926, aforesaid, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount
Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby revoke the vesting in the Board of Trustees of the
Port Hills - Akaroa Summit Road Public Trust (Incorporated)
of the control of the scenic reserves described in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 23rd day of October, 1940.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/353.)