Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in Pohui Survey District, Hawke's Bay Land District.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of February, 1940.
Present:
THE HON. H. G. R. MASON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart as a site for a Native school: And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the reservation over such land shall be changed to a reserve for public buildings of the General Government:
Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (a) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that the purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for a site for a Native school to a reserve for public buildings of the General Government.
SCHEDULE.
HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION I, Block III, Pohui Survey District: Area, 5 acres, more or less.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 6/6/692.)
Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Ratanui Memorial Public Hall Board.
GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of February, 1940.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in Gazette of the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter provided:
Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section seventeen of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely :-
John Randall Maginness, Alexander Francis Sheed, Percy Shaw, William Elmslie Craigie, Alexander Anderson, Derby Slater, and John William Allan,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Ratanui Memorial Public Hall Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board"), with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:-

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business at the Ratanui Memorial Public Hall, or at such other place and at such time as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Saturday, the seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty.
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 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.
4. Any four members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
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 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 of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.
9. The Board shall control the said reserve and the building erected thereon for the purposes of a memorial public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Ratanui and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said hall as may from time to time be determined by the Board; provided that the Board shall have power to fix reasonable charges for the use of the said hall.
   SCHEDULE.
   OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.
   SECTION 29, Block III, Woodland Survey District : Area, 1 rood 2 perches, more or less.
   C. A. JEFFERY,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.
   (L. and S. 22/3246.)
   Vesting a Reserve in the Auckland City Council.
   GALWAY, Governor-General.
   ORDER IN COUNCIL.
   At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of February, 1940.
   Present:
   THE HON. H. G. R. MASON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
   WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart as a reserve for recreation purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland:
   Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section nine of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland, in trust, for recreation purposes.
   SCHEDULE.
   NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
   ALL that area in the City of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 19-9 perches, more or less, situated in Block VIII, Rangitoto Survey District, being Allotments 96 to 105 (inclusive) and 109 to 115 (inclusive) of Section 1, Suburbs of Auckland, and being the whole of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Vol. 186, folio 87, Auckland Registry.
   C. A. JEFFERY,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.
   (L. and S. 6/6/686.)