Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1859

Vesting a Reserve in the Hawera Borough Council.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1940.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart as a reserve for municipal purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hawera:

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 Burgesses of the Borough of Hawera, in trust, for municipal purposes.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

Subdivisions 29 and 30, Section 19, Town of Hawera. Area, 1 rood 39 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 6/11/116.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Croydon Public Hall Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1940.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant dated the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and published in Gazette of the twenty-second day of that month, 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, —

David Warnock McCall,
Anthony Thomas Kubala,
James Fraser Grant,
Thomas Nicholson, and
Kenneth Donald Tuach

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Croydon 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 on the last Saturday in each month at seven-thirty o’clock p.m. at the Croydon Public Hall, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Saturday, the third day of August, 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 day’s 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 three 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 the 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 public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Croydon 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.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being part Section 122, Block LXXI, Hokonui Survey District: Bounded towards the north-west by a public road, 500 links; towards the north-east by part Section 122, Block LXXI aforesaid, 205·12 links; towards the south-east by part Section 122 aforesaid, 500 links; and towards the south-west by a public road, 205·12 links; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/690, 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. 22/690.)

Vesting a Reserve in the Cook County Council.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1940.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart as a reserve for cemetery purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Cook:

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 date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Cook, in trust, for cemetery purposes.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

Section 70a, Block VIII, Waimata Survey District: Area, 10 acres 1 rood 37 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 2/362.)