Nov. 25] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1401

Directing the Sale of Land under the Public Works Act, 1928, in the City of Christchurch

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Public Works Act, 1928, 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, doth hereby direct the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the public work for which it was acquired.

SCHEDULE

Situated in the City of Christchurch (Canterbury R.D.).

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked and coloured as above mentioned and deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 24/221.)

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924:

And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Puketotara Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the portion of the Puketotara Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Bay of Islands County containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being part Puketotara Kauri-gum Reserve and now known as Section 2, Block I, Kawakawa Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/612B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 2/612.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Cape Kidnapper Bird Sanctuary Board

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by deed bearing date the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, conveyed to His Majesty the King as a reserve for the protection of gannets:

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 for the protection of gannets resorting thereto 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,—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Hawke's Bay Land District (ex officio),
The President of the Hawke's Bay Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand (ex officio),
Peter William George Barlow,
James Allan Berry,
Wilfred Bratby Stewart,
Arthur Gruchy Clark,
Edward Staniland West,
Engelhardt Rudolph Bruun Nielsen, and
Allan Cameron Duff,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Cape Kidnapper Bird Sanctuary 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 when necessary for the transaction of business at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, on such days and at such time as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may determine. The first meeting shall be held on Thursday, the second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three.

2. 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.

3. Any five members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be Chairman of the Board, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

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 May 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 is hereby empowered to—

(a) Prohibit all persons (either with or without any firearms, explosives, or any weapon or instrument of a dangerous nature whatsoever) from trespassing on the reserve: