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who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the
name of the Tuatapere Scenic 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 Tuesday, the
   thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four,
   at eight o'clock p.m., at Smith and Brumby's rooms, Tuatapere, and
   thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the
   last 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 four 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.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting
   to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the pro-
   ceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first
   day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expendi-
   ture 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible
   after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserves in accordance with
   the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE

TUATAPERE SCENIC RESERVES.-SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 11 and part Section 5, Block II, and Section 66, Block III,
Alton Survey District : Area, 134 acres 1 rood 34 perches, more or
less.

Section 6R and part Section 6, Block II, Alton Survey District :
Area, 104 acres 1 rood 11 perches, more or less.

Section 28 (Manuka or Tuatapere Island), Block III, Alton
Survey District : Area, 123 acres, more or less.

Section 63, Block III, Alton Survey District: Area, 36 acres
1 rood, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 23rd day of May, 1944.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 650.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Lake Kaniere Scenic
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, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of
New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserves described
in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act),
in trust for the purposes of scenery preservation, as from the date
of this notice until the thirteenth day of October, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-five (unless previously altered or revoked
under the said Act) in the Lake Kaniere Scenic Board, as constituted
by notification dated the fourteenth day of October, one thousand
nine hundred and forty, and published in Gazette of the seventeenth
day of that month.

SCHEDULE

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

All that area containing 12 acres 3 roods 15 perches, more or less,
being Reserve 1824 (formerly Lot 1 on D.P. 990), and being part
Sections 1699 and 1778, Block XI Kaniere Survey District. As
the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 4/176E, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area containing 7 acres 3 roods 26 perches, more
or less, being Reserve 1825 (formerly Lot 2 on D.P. 990), and being
part Sections 1699 and 1778, Block XI, Kaniere Survey District.
As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 4/176E, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 19th day of May, 1944.

H. G. R. MASON,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 4/176.)

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

609

Abel Tasman National Park

BY-LAWS

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in
it by the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act,
1928, the Abel Tasman National Park Board of Control doth hereby
make the following by-laws.

1. INTERPRETATION

In these by-laws, unless inconsistent with the context,

"Park" means the Abel Tasman National Park as constituted
by Order in Council dated 24th February, 1943, in pursuance
of section 71 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National
Parks Act, 1928:

"Board" means the Abel Tasman National Park Board of
Control constituted by virtue of section 73 of the said Act;
"Chairman" means the person appointed under section 75 of
the said Act as Chairman of the Board;
"Secretary" means the person appointed to that office by
resolution of the Board under section 79 of the said Act;
"Ranger" means any person appointed to that office by the
Board under the powers of section 79 of the said Act;
"Stock" includes any horse, donkey, mule, goat, pig, sheep, or
cattle beast;
"Camping-sites" means any area or areas that may from time to
time be set aside, used, or that may be deemed suitable for
such purpose.

2. USE OF PARK

The park shall be open to the public throughout the year without
charge for admission thereto except as hereafter provided.

3. FLORA AND FAUNA

No person shall, without the written authority of the Secretary,
acting on a decision of the Board, place in the ground, sow, or plant
any seed or plant in the park, whether such seed or plant be native
in New Zealand or not; nor shall birds, insects, or other animals be
liberated therein except under like authority.

No person shall remove or destroy any tree, plant, shrub, or
fern, or remove dead wood of any kind whatsoever, without the
written authority of the Secretary, acting on a decision of the Board.

4. CAMPING

All persons wishing to camp in the park shall apply to the Secre-
tary or a ranger for assignment of camping-sites, and shall pay such
fees or charges as may from time to time be fixed by the Board, and
shall not change camp-sites without permission from the Secretary
or a ranger.

The following conditions shall be strictly observed in connection
with camp-sites:

(a) Combustible rubbish must be burned on camp-fires, and all
other garbage and refuse of all kinds, including broken
glass, bottles, tin cans, &c., must be placed in garbage-cans
if available, or otherwise must be buried not less than
1 ft. deep by the campers in a place hidden from sight;
(b) No person, whether camping in the park or otherwise therein,
shall pollute in any manner the waters of the park, nor
shall he or she bathe in any of the streams near the
regularly travelled thoroughfares in the park without
suitable bathing clothes;
Campers shall construct latrines over pits in suitable
places hidden from sight, and such pits shall be filled in
to the satisfaction of a ranger or other officer of the Board
before leaving;
(c) No person shall tie or tether stock in such a way that
they may be able to enter any streams of the park.
All animals shall be kept at sufficient distance from
camping-grounds so as not to litter the ground and render
the area unfit for camping;
(d) No person shall take any wood for fuel except from dead
trees or from trees which have been cut for that purpose
by the Board's employees;
(e) No person shall remove, disturb, break, destroy, cut names,
letters, words, figures or devices on, or deface any building,
fixed or movable seats, gates, bridges, or trees within the
limits of the park.

5. HUTS

(a) Any person desiring the use of any huts or other buildings
erected in the park shall apply to the Secretary or a ranger, who shall
in their discretion grant to such applicant such usage of the hut or
building as they shall deem advisable, either exclusively or con-
currently with any other person or persons.
(b) The charges, restrictions, and conditions of usage of any hut
or building shall be as fixed by the Board from time to time.
(c) The ranger or other officer of the Board is empowered to
terminate any usage of any hut or building where such is in excess
of that granted, or where the user acts in such a manner as in the
opinion of the ranger or other officer of the Board is likely to cause
damage to the Board's property or give offence to other persons.
(d) No person shall use or attempt to use any hut or building
without the written consent of the Secretary or a ranger.
(e) Should any organization be empowered to erect any buildings
for accommodation within the park, and such accommodation is at
any time not fully occupied by members of that organization, then
other persons shall be entitled to make use of the same under whatever
conditions the organization, with the prior approval of the Board,
may determine.