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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 116

SECOND SCHEDULE.
FORMS.
(1) Notice.
WAIPA DRAINAGE BOARD.

CONVERSION under the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, section 20 of the Finance Act (No. 2), 1935, section 35 of the Local Legislation Act, 1940, and the Waipa Drainage Board Loans Conversion Order, 1940, of debentures or other securities issued in respect of the following loans [Particulars of loans].

Notice is hereby given to the holder of debentures or other securities issued in respect of the above-mentioned loans that with the consent of the holder thereof the Waipa Drainage Board intends to convert all such debentures or other securities into new debentures having new maturity dates and bearing interest at 4½ per cent. per annum.

The conversion will take effect from the 1st day of December, 1940.

Consent to conversion, if given, must be made in writing, and when given shall be irrevocable.

Further particulars as to the new debentures and the conversion generally may be obtained from [Name or designation and address of at least one person authorized to give particulars].

Dated the day of , 1940. , Chairman.

(2) New Debenture.

No. .

WAIPA DRAINAGE BOARD, NEW ZEALAND.

New Debenture, issued pursuant to Part II of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, section 20 of the Finance Act (No. 2), 1935, section 35 of the Local Legislation Act, 1940, and the Waipa Drainage Board Loans Conversion Order, 1940. New debenture for £ , payable at , New Zealand, on the day of , 19 , issued by the Waipa Drainage Board, New Zealand, under the above-mentioned Acts and Order pursuant to a resolution passed and confirmed by the said Board as provided by section 9 (2) of the said Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33.

(N.B.—The holder of this debenture has no claim in respect thereof upon the Government or public revenues of New Zealand.)

On presentation of this debenture at , in New Zealand, on or after the day of , 19 , the bearer thereof will be entitled to receive £ .

Issued under the common seal of the Waipa Drainage Board, the day of , 1940.

[I.S.] A.B., Chairman.
C.D., Treasurer [or other officer appointed for the purpose].

(3) Resolution making Special Rate.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by Part II of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, section 35 of the Local Legislation Act, 1940, and the Waipa Drainage Board Loans Conversion Order, 1940, the Waipa Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the half-yearly instalments of principal and interest on the new securities authorized to be issued by the Waipa Drainage Board under the above-mentioned Acts and Order in conversion of existing securities issued in respect of the loans set out in the First Schedule to that Order, the said Waipa Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate on all rateable lands of the district: such special rate shall be made and levied on a graduated scale according to the classification of the said lands as set out in the classification list of such lands as follows: [State amount in the pound] on the rateable value of such of the said lands as are included in Class (a) in the said classification list, [State amount in the pound] on the rateable value of such of the said lands as are included in Class (b) in the said classification list and [State amount in the pound] on such of the said lands as are included in Class (c) in the said classification list, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such securities, and be payable half-yearly on the day of and the day of [or yearly on the day of ] in each and every year until the last maturity date of such securities, being the day of , 19 , or until all such securities are fully paid off.

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

(T. 49/660.)

Officer authorized to convene Courts Martial and to confirm the Findings and Sentences thereof.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of the Defence Amendment Act, 1912, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the undermentioned officer to convene general or district courts martial for the trial under that Act of persons subject to military law and empower such officer to confirm the findings and sentences of general or district courts martial, whether passed before or after the issue of this Warrant:—

Lieutenant-Colonel (temp. Colonel) Albert Edward Conway, O.B.E., N.Z. Staff Corps, Adjutant-General, New Zealand Military Forces.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of November, 1940.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

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Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Papatowai Scenic Board.

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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 lands 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,—

Francis Adams,
Claude Gaudin Martin,
Innis McKay,
James Richard Peterson,
Kenneth Ross,
Daniel Roxburgh, and
William Wells,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Papatowai 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 Saturday, the seventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty, at eight o’clock p.m., in the Papatowai School, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Saturday 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 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.