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who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the
name of the Northbank Settlers' 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
   fourth Saturday in the months of February, May, August, and
   November at eight o'clock p.m., at the Northbank Settlers’ 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 twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and
   forty-four.

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 six 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 public hall, and shall also afford
   settlers and residents of Northbank and the surrounding district
   such facilities for meeting within the said building 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 building.

SCHEDULE

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 2 of 2, Block XVIII, Pine Valley Survey District; Area,
1 acre, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 22/3630/61.)

Warrant appointing Conciliation Commissioner under the
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and
its Amendments

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

N pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
conferred on me by section forty of the Industrial Con-
ciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, I, Cyril Louis Norton
Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint

Clifford Lorrie Hunter

to be a Conciliation Commissioner under and for the purposes
of Part II of the said Act, appointment to date from the
first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-
four.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 16th day of February, 1944.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

Warrant for Convening General Courts-martial

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

To the Air or other Officer for the time being Commanding the
Air Defence of Great Britain.

WHEREAS by the Visiting Forces Act, 1939, it is provided when
a home force and another force are acting in combination
any officer of the other force duly appointed to command the com-
bined force, or any part thereof, shall be treated and shall have over
members of the home force the like powers of command and punish-
ment, and may be invested with the like authority to convene and
confirm the findings and sentences of courts-martial as if he were an
officer of the home force of relative rank and holding the same
command:

And whereas by an order made on the tenth day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and forty-one, under the authority of the
aforesaid Act, it was declared that the air forces of His Majesty
raised in New Zealand which are serving outside New Zealand
during or in respect of the present war shall be deemed to be serving
together and acting in combination with the air forces of His Majesty
raised in the United Kingdom:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers con-
ferred by the aforesaid Act and by the Air Force Act, 1937, and
the regulations made thereunder (hereinafter referred to as “the
said Act and regulations”), I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
authorize you from time to time as occasion may require to convene
general courts-martial for the trial of every person subject to the
said Act and regulations who shall be charged with any offence
for which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such
offence shall have been committed before or after the date of this
Warrant; and I hereby further authorize you to confirm the pro-
ceedings of any such courts-martial and to cause any sentence
thereof to be put into execution according to law:

Provided, however, that no sentence of death shall be carried
into effect unless the execution thereof be approved by myself as
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand in Council:

And I do further authorize you to direct your warrant to any
officer of the Royal Air Force or of the Royal New Zealand Air
Force not below the rank of Squadron Leader giving him a general
authority to convene general courts-martial for the trial of any
persons subject to the said Act and regulations who shall be charged
with any offence for which such person may be tried by court-
martial, whether such offence shall have been committed before or
after the date of the warrant directed by you to such officer, and also
to exercise in respect of the proceedings of such courts-martial the
power of confirming the findings or sentences thereof according to
law, or, if you should so think fit, of directing him to reserve for
your confirmation the proceedings of all or any such courts-martial,
in which case you are hereby authorized to exercise in respect of
the proceedings so reserved all the powers of a confirming officer
in accordance with the said Act and regulations:

And that there may not in any case be a failure of justice from
the want of a proper person authorized to act as judge-advocate,
I do hereby further empower you, in default of a person appointed
by me or deputed by the Solicitor-General, or during the illness
or occasional absence of the person so appointed or deputed, to
nominate and appoint, and to delegate to any officer duly autho-
rized to convene a general court-martial the power of appointing,
a fit person from time to time for executing the office of judge-
advocate at any court-martial for the more orderly proceedings of
the same:

And for executing the several powers, matters, and things
herein expressed this shall be to you and all others whom it may
concern a sufficient Warrant and authority.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 12th day of February, 1944.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Warrant for Convening General Courts-martial

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

To the Air or other Officer for the time being Commanding the
2nd Tactical Air Force.

WHEREAS by the Visiting Forces Act, 1939, it is provided when
a home force and another force are acting in combination
any officer of the other force duly appointed to command the com-
bined force, or any part thereof, shall be treated and shall have over
members of the home force the like powers of command and punish-
ment, and may be invested with the like authority to convene and
confirm the findings and sentences of courts-martial as if he were an
officer of the home force of relative rank and holding the same
command:

And whereas by an order made on the tenth day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and forty-one, under the authority of the
aforesaid Act, it was declared that the air forces of His Majesty
raised in New Zealand which are serving outside New Zealand
during or in respect of the present war shall be deemed to be serving
together and acting in combination with the air forces of His Majesty
raised in the United Kingdom:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers con-
ferred by the aforesaid Act and by the Air Force Act, 1937, and
the regulations made thereunder (hereinafter referred to as “the
said Act and regulations”), I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
authorize you from time to time as occasion may require to convene
general courts-martial for the trial of every person subject to the
said Act and regulations who shall be charged with any offence
for which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such
offence shall have been committed before or after the date of this
Warrant; and I hereby further authorize you to confirm the pro-
ceedings of any such courts-martial and to cause any sentence
thereof to be put into execution according to law:

Provided, however, that no sentence of death shall be carried
into effect unless the execution thereof be approved by myself as
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand in Council:

And I do further authorize you to direct your warrant to any
officer of the Royal Air Force or of the Royal New Zealand Air
Force not below the rank of Squadron Leader giving him a general
authority to convene general courts-martial for the trial of any
persons subject to the said Act and regulations who shall be charged
with any offence for which such person may be tried by court-
martial, whether such offence shall have been committed before or
after the date of the warrant directed by you to such officer, and also
to exercise in respect of the proceedings of such courts-martial the
power of confirming the findings or sentences thereof according to
law, or, if you should so think fit, of directing him to reserve for
your confirmation the proceedings of all or any such courts-martial,
in which case you are hereby authorized to exercise in respect of
the proceedings so reserved all the powers of a confirming officer
in accordance with the said Act and regulations:

And that there may not in any case be a failure of justice from
the want of a proper person authorized to act as judge-advocate,
I do hereby further empower you, in default of a person appointed
by me or deputed by the Solicitor-General, or during the illness
or occasional absence of the person so appointed or deputed, to
nominate and appoint, and to delegate to any officer duly autho-
rized to convene a general court-martial the power of appointing,
a fit person from time to time for executing the office of judge-
advocate at any court-martial for the more orderly proceedings of
the same:

And for executing the several powers, matters, and things
herein expressed this shall be to you and all others whom it may
concern a sufficient Warrant and authority.