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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 20

The North-eastern Side of Portion of Songer Street, in the County of Waimea, exempted from the Provisions of Section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of March, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of every other power in anyway enabling him in this behalf, 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Waimea County Council on the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, viz.:-

"The Waimea County Council, being the local authority having control of the roads in the County of Waimea, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall not apply to the north-eastern side of portion of Songer Street, adjoining part Section 51, Suburban South, Block III, Waimea Survey District, C.T. 59/282";

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the north-eastern side of portion of Songer Street (described in the Schedule hereto) within a distance of thirty-five feet from the centre-line of the said portion of road.

SCHEDULE

THE north-eastern side of all that portion of road situated in the Nelson Land District, County of Waimea, known as Songer Street, fronting part Section 51, Suburban South, Block III, Waimea Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 118721, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 51/2750.)

Varying the Determinations in respect of the Wellington City Council's Loan of £40,000

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of March, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the tenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two, and subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment therein set out, consent was given to the raising in New Zealand by the Wellington City Council (hereinafter referred to as "the said local authority") of a loan of forty thousand pounds (£40,000), to be known as "Wellington City New Office Building Loan, 1942" (hereinafter referred to as "the said loan"):

And whereas by Orders in Council made on the third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two, and the twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, the determinations aforesaid were varied:

And whereas the authority conferred by the said Orders in Council has not yet been exercised, and it is expedient to again vary the determinations aforesaid in respect of the said loan:

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby again vary the determinations aforesaid in respect of the said loan by prescribing that in lieu of the first redemption of debentures being made in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-four and subsequent redemptions in each consecutive year thereafter up to and including the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three, as specified in the Order in Council made on the twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three, the first redemption shall be made in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five and subsequent redemptions in each consecutive year thereafter up to and including the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.

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

(T. 49/168/86.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Stafford Public Hall Board

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of March, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart for a site for a public hall: 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 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:-

Michael Edward Kelly, sen., William Henry Merewether, Antony Alexander Srhoy, John Merewether, and Hudson Steele,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Stafford 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 second Friday in each month, at eight o'clock p.m., at the Stafford 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 Friday, the fourteenth day of April, 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 three 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 Stafford 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.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

RESERVE 75, formerly Section 47, Town of Stafford, Block XIV, Waimea Survey District : Area, 10 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 55255.)

Vesting a Reserve in the Vincent County Council

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of March, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for gravel-pit purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Vincent:

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