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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 41

SCHEDULE.

THE north-western side of all that portion of street, situated in the Otago Land District, City of Dunedin, known as Carlton Street, fronting Lots 4, 5, and 6, Block II, Deeds Plan 191, Township of Ascotvale, being also part Section 26, North-east Valley District.

As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 110771, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

T. R. AICKIN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 51/2640.)

Regulations under the Naval Defence Act, 1913, amended.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 30th day of April, 1941.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section twenty-five of the Naval Defence Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, doth hereby amend and supplement the regulations referred to in the Schedule hereto as shown therein.

SCHEDULE.

Regulations for the Government and Payment of the Royal Naval Reserves, 1937.

THE following instructions are to be read with reference to the above regulations, Articles Numbers 17, 21, 63, 64, 68, 97, 99, 118, 123, 124, 142 :—

NEW ZEALAND ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE AND ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE OFFICERS.—CONFIRMATION AND PROMOTION IN TIME OF WAR.

Navy Order 320.—Paragraph 5: Cancel and substitute :—

5. Notwithstanding this Navy Order, officers are not entitled to count for promotion any time served in the rank of Probationary Sub-Lieutenant or Sub-Lieutenant below the age of twenty.

T. R. AICKIN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

The Arawa District Trust Board Regulations.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1941.

Present:

THE HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section fifty-one of the Native Purposes Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby make the following regulations with respect to the Arawa District Trust Board.

REGULATIONS.

PRELIMINARY.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Arawa District Trust Board Regulations 1941.

2. These regulations shall come into force on the day of the making hereof.

3. In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context,—

“Board” means the Arawa District Trust Board :

“Member” means a member of the Board :

“Returned soldiers” means those persons, being members of the Arawa Tribe, who have served in the Maori Wars, the Boer War, the Great War, and the present war with Germany :

“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board :

“Under-Secretary” means the Under-Secretary of the Native Department :

“The said section” means section 51 of the Native Purposes Act, 1931 :

4. The respective regulations referred to in the First Schedule hereto are hereby revoked.

5. All appointments, instruments, notices, charges, securities, agreements, liabilities, obligations, contracts, payments, advances, judgments, and generally all other documents, matters, acts, and things which originated or had effect under the regulations hereby revoked, and are of continuing effect at the time of coming into force of these regulations, shall enure for the purpose of these regulations as if they had originated under these regulations, and shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated.

MEMBERS.

6. The Board shall consist of nineteen members, to be appointed by the Governor-General, as provided in the said section, of whom—

(a) Eighteen shall represent the divisions and subtribes of the Arawa Tribe named in the Second Schedule hereto according to the number of members set out opposite their respective names in that Schedule.

(b) One shall represent the returned soldiers.

7. (1) A candidate for appointment as a member of the Board shall, with the consent of such candidate endorsed on the nomination paper or notified to the Board, be nominated in writing by not less than two members of the subtribe or of the returned soldiers whom, as the case may be, he proposes to represent.

(2) Nominations shall be lodged with the Secretary of the Board not later than a day and time to be fixed by the Board with the approval of the Native Minister.

(3) A candidate may at any time upon notice to the Board withdraw his nomination.

(4) No candidate shall be nominated to represent more than one subtribe.

(5) A candidate nominated to represent the returned soldiers shall not be nominated to represent a subtribe.

(6) A nomination paper may be in the form set out in the Third Schedule hereto.

8. (1) Every candidate, or some person on his behalf shall, at the time his nomination paper is sent to the Board, deposit with or remit to the Board the sum of two pounds, which shall be refunded to the candidate or to the person who paid it after the appointment of members has been made.

(2) Where a candidate withdraws, his deposit shall be refunded to him or to the person who paid it.

(3) The Board may refuse to accept a nomination until the deposit has been paid.

9. (1) If the number of candidates nominated to represent a subtribe or the returned soldiers exceeds the number of members prescribed by these regulations in respect of that subtribe or of the returned soldiers, the names of the candidates shall be submitted to a public meeting of the subtribe or of the returned soldiers, as the case may be, for the purpose of selecting the candidate or candidates to represent the subtribe or the returned soldiers on the Board.

(2) With the approval of the Native Minister a public meeting for the purpose of this regulation shall be held every third year upon the day upon which the elections in respect of the local body of the Borough of Rotorua are held.

(3) If, at a public meeting, a subtribe or the returned soldiers cannot agree upon the candidate or candidates to represent them on the Board, the names of the candidates shall be submitted to the Native Land Court, and the Court may recommend for appointment as members the candidate or candidates it deems most suitable for office.

10. (1) When the subtribes and the returned soldiers shall have selected the candidates to represent them on the Board, or the Native Land Court shall have made a recommendation as aforesaid, the names of the candidates so selected or recommended, as the case may be, shall be forwarded to the Under-Secretary for the consideration of the Governor-General in Council.

(2) The Governor-General shall not be bound to appoint a candidate so selected or recommended.

11. Subject to the provisions of these regulations every member shall hold office until his successor is appointed and shall be eligible for reappointment.

12. A member may at any time be removed from office by the Governor-General if the Governor-General is of opinion that that member is, from any cause, incapable of efficiently performing the duties of his office, or that he has been guilty of any misconduct which renders him, in the opinion of the Governor-General, unfit for office.

13. A member may at any time resign his office by notice in writing under his hand sent or delivered to the Under-Secretary, and his office shall become vacant pursuant to the tenor of such notice, or if no date is specified in the notice for the taking-effect of the resignation, then upon receipt by the Under-Secretary of such notice.

14. The office of any member of the Board shall become vacant if he becomes bankrupt or is convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment, or if he is absent from three consecutive and duly notified meetings without reasonable cause.

15. (1) When a member of the Board dies, or resigns, or forfeits his office, or is removed from office, the Governor-General may appoint some person to fill the vacancy so created, who shall hold office for the unexpired term of his predecessor and thereafter until his successor is appointed.