Aug. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1889

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 under-mentioned persons, namely,—

William O’Donnell,
Alexander Silitoe Barber Tate,
Colin Telfer,
Walter Pywell,
Edward Ferdinand Gruebner,
William James McVeagh, and
Frank Edgar Southcombe

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Owhango Public Hall and Library Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), with the powers and subject to the conditions herein-after contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the second Tuesday of each month at half-past seven o’clock p.m. at the Owhango 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 Monday, the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and forty, at eight o’clock p.m.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting herein-after 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 be 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 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 library, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Owhango 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.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 17, Block I, Town of Owhango: Area, 1 rood.

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

(L. and S. 22/2352.)

Licensing Francis Oliver John Langton to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore at Rawene, Hokianga Harbour, as a Site for a Store.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of August, 1940.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Harbours Act, 1923, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby license and permit Francis Oliver John Langton, of Rawene, trading under the style and title of T. P. Lane and Company (hereinafter called “the licensee,” which term shall include his executors, administrators, or assigns, unless the context requires a different construction), to use and occupy a part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark at Rawene, Hokianga Harbour, at the site marked No. 8, as shown on plan marked M.D. 6194, approved on the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, for the purpose of maintaining thereon a store as shown on the said plan, such license to be held and enjoyed by the licensee upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

(1) This license is subject to the Foreshore License Regulations 1940, and the provisions of those regulations shall, so far as applicable, apply hereto.

(2) The term of the license shall be fourteen years from the 26th day of July, 1940.

(3) The premium payable by the licensee shall be one pound (£1), and the annual sum so payable, five pounds (£5).

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

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Assigning Name of “Linden” to the new Railway-station and to the Northern Portion of Tawa Flat in the County of Makara.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the Designation of Districts Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, inter alia, assign a name or designation to any railway-station and locality whatsoever in New Zealand:

And whereas it is desirable to assign the name “Linden” to the northern locality of the district of Tawa Flat in the County of Makara, and to the new railway-station situated in that locality:

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the Designation of Districts Act, 1908, do hereby assign the name “Linden” to the northern locality of the district of Tawa Flat in the County of Makara, and to the new railway-station at Collins Avenue in the said locality.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of August, 1940.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 103/11/5.)

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Land set apart in the Southland Land District as a Site for a Public School.

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section thirty-three of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, or of section twenty-two of the first-mentioned Act, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserves or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Southland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the land described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as a site for a public school, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public school.