JAN. 20] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 29

Partial Revocation of Order in Council vesting Land owned by Natives
in a Maori Land Board for non-payment of Rates

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of January, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section sixty-three 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 revoke the Order in Council referred to in Part I of the Schedule hereto, in so far as it affects the land mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE

PART I

ORDER in Council under section 32 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1928, made on the 5th day of December, 1929, and published in the Gazette on the 12th day of December, 1929, at page 3230.

PART II

Block. Area:
A. R. P.
Haruatai 13B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 5·1

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

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Regulations under the Naval Defence Act, 1913, amended

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of January, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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.

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SCHEDULE

Regulations for the Government and Payment of the Royal New Zealand Navy, 1939

ARTICLE 314, paragraph 2: Cancel and substitute:—

“2. Deferred pay should not be carried forward from quarter to quarter nor interest due taken into consideration. The particulars furnished under paragraph 1 will be checked in Navy Office on receipt of ships’ ledgers. The accounts will be kept in Navy Office, by whom interest will be added when due.”

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

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Lands permanently reserved in the Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Westland, and Otago Land Districts

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month, but not later than six months, after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrant dated the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, and published in the Gazette of the seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes in the Schedule of the said Warrant specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved:

Now, therefore, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be permanently reserved for which purposes the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area situated in the Borough of Hastings, containing by admeasurement 27·08 perches, more or less, being Lot 3 as shown on S.O. plan 1929 (red), deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Napier, being part Heretaunga Block, and being also part Lot 1, D.P. 6545. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/1107/3, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (Recreation.)

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

Sections 8 and 9, Block XVIII, Town of Ohakune: Area, 2 acres, more or less. (Public-school site.)

Section 14, Block XVI, Kopuaranga Survey District: Area, 1 acre and 20·2 perches, more or less. (Resting-place for travelling stock.)

Section 18, Block XVI, Kopuaranga Survey District: Area, 1 acre 3 roods 28 perches, more or less. (Resting-place for travelling stock.)

Section 16, Block XVI, Kopuaranga Survey District: Area, 2 acres 2 roods 30·4 perches, more or less. (Gravel-pit.)

Section 17, Block XVI, Kopuaranga Survey District: Area, 2 acres 3 roods 12·6 perches, more or less. (Roadman’s cottage-site.)

All that area containing 1 acre, more or less, being Town Section 33 on the plan of the Special Settlement, Township of Kaitawa, and being all the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 62, folio 138 (Wellington Registry). (Recreation.)

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

Reserve 1827 (formerly part Section 230, Square 119), Block IV, Cobden Survey District: Area, 1 acre 3 roods 23·5 perches, more or less. (Recreation.)

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

Sections 27 and 28, Block IV, Lower Hawea Survey District: Area, 35 acres and 11 perches, more or less. (Recreation.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of January, 1944.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/1107/3, XI/4/434, 16/2873, 1/6, 1/1107/8, 1/205.)

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Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Pounawea Scenic Reserves Board

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby revoke a Warrant dated the twenty-third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty, and published in the Gazette of the thirty-first day of that month, vesting the control of scenic reserves in the Pounawea Scenic Reserves Board, and doth hereby vest the control of the scenic reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act) in the undermentioned persons, namely:—

Richard Henry Edinger,
William Friend,
Henry James Latta,
Peter Laughton,
John Randall Maginness,
Thomas Maginness,
John Cameron McLachlan,
John Reid Wilson, and
James Frederick Wratten,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Pounawea Scenic Reserves Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Monday, the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, at eight o’clock p.m., at the Public Library, Owaka, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Monday in each quarter at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

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

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. 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 for such meeting.

7. 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.