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2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserve. Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE

SILVERSTREAM SCENIC RESERVE.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Hutt County, situated in Block IV, Belmont Survey District, containing by admeasurement 166 acres 0 roods 38·1 perches, more or less, being parts Sections 209, 269, 270, Hutt District, and Lot 4 and part Lot 3 on D.P. 8202, being part Section 196, Hutt District, and being the whole of the land shown on S.O. plan 21122, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/167c, 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 17th day of June, 1944.

C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/167.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Matiere 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 reserve 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,—

Robert William Dench,
John Gray,
Frederic John Bishop, and
Frank Pleasants

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Matiere 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 Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, at eight o’clock p.m., in the Public Hall, Matiere.

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 three 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 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

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

B

SCHEDULE

MATIERE SCENIC RESERVE.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood 8 perches, more or less, being part Section 28, Block XV, Aria Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by the Ohura-Mokau Road, 1340 links, and towards the south-west by a road reserve, 1450 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/444A, 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 14th day of June, 1944.

C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/444.)

Vesting the Control of Portion of a Scenic Reserve in the Dannevirke Borough Council

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 vest the control of that portion of the Makirikiri Scenic Reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Dannevirke Borough Council subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say :—

1. The period for which the control is hereby vested shall be five years from the date hereof, unless the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said Act.

2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said portion of the said reserve. Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council shall control the said portion in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE

PART MAKIRIKIRI SCENIC RESERVE.—HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT

Lot 1, Section 13, Block II, Tahoraite Survey District: Area, 19 acres 2 roods, more or less.

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

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/375.)

Appointments, Promotions, and Relinquishments of Temporary Rank of Officers on Active Service with the 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force (Middle East)

Army Department,
Wellington, 12th June, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to confirm the following appointments, promotions, and relinquishments of temporary rank of officers on active service with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Middle East), vide List No. 142 :—

PROMOTIONS

N.Z. Artillery

Lieutenant B. H. Brown to be Captain, with seniority from 23rd December, 1943, next after Captain G. S. Woodward. Dated 21st February, 1944.

N.Z. Infantry

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :—

H. G. Smith. 2nd Lieut. (temp. Lieut.)
H. J. Monaghan, M.M. D. N. McDonald.

Dated 10th April, 1944.

GRANTS OF TEMPORARY RANK

N.Z. Armoured Corps

The undermentioned Captains to be temp. Majors :—

A. S. Askew. D. A. Cole.

Dated 18th April, 1944.

The undermentioned Lieutenants to be temp. Captains :—

A. J. McBeath. Dated 16th April, 1944.
B. F. Sceats. Dated 18th April, 1944.