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Suspending the Operations of certain Statutes in connection with the
New Zealand Industries Fair
C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of
July, 1944
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by
the Exhibitions Act, 1910 (hereinafter called “the said Act”),
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 authorize the holding of a
public exhibition of works of industry and art, to be conducted by
the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association in the King Edward
Barracks, Christchurch, from the fifth day to the nineteenth day of
August (inclusive), one thousand nine hundred and forty-four,
and to be known as the New Zealand Industries Fair; and doth
hereby declare the said exhibition to be an exhibition within the
meaning of the said Act, and doth hereby suspend, subject, however,
to the conditions set out in the Schedule hereto, all the provisions
of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, the Factories Act, 1921–22,
and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and of all
awards and industrial agreements in force under the last-named
Act, in so far as such provisions relate to the hours of commencing
or ceasing work or to the issue of permits for overtime or extended
hours, or to holidays or half-holidays, or to the closing of shops to
any person, and so far as such provisions relate to hours of work
done or business conducted or service carried out, in, or upon the
premises aforesaid during the period aforesaid by or on behalf of
the bodies conducting the said exhibition, or by or on behalf of any
exhibitor of works of industry or art at the said exhibition, or by any
person employed in or about the said exhibition.
SCHEDULE

1. EIGHT hours shall constitute a day’s work in or about the
   exhibition, and, with the exception set out in clause 2 hereof, such
   hours shall be worked consecutively.
2. No person shall be employed in or about the exhibition for
   more than four hours without an interval of at least three-quarters
   of an hour for a meal.
3. Any person employed during any day in or about the
   exhibition who is employed on such day in excess of eight hours, or
   before the hour of 8 a.m. or after the hour of 10.30 p.m. (whether
   such excess employment is in or about the exhibition or otherwise),
   shall be paid for such excess employment at not less than one-half
   as much again as the ordinary rate for the first two hours and at not
   less than twice the ordinary rate thereafter, and any person employed
   in or about the exhibition on any day that would, but for the provisions
   of this Order in Council, have been a whole holiday for such person
   by virtue of any Act or of any award or industrial agreement, shall
   be paid for all work done on such day at not less than twice the
   ordinary rate, whether such work is performed wholly in or about
   the exhibition or otherwise.
4. No male under eighteen years of age and no female shall be
   employed in or about the exhibition after the hour of 10.30 p.m.
5. For the purposes of the enforcement of an award or industrial
   agreement any provision of which has been suspended by this
   Order in Council, any officer of the industrial union or association
   concerned who is authorized in writing in that behalf by such union
   or association shall be entitled to interview at his place of employ-
   ment any person employed in or about the exhibition under that
   award or industrial agreement at such time or times as may be
   agreed upon by and between such officer and the employer of such
   persons, and for this purpose any such officer shall be entitled at any
   reasonable time to have access to the Register of Passes issued by
   the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association.
6. Nothing in this Order in Council shall be deemed to affect
   any provisions in an award or industrial agreement requiring workers
   subject to such award or industrial agreement to be members of a
   union.
   C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 62
Vesting the Control of a Scenic and Historic Reserve in the Urenui Pa
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,—
The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land
District (ex officio),
William Henry Skinner,
Samuel Alexander Managh,
William Henry Fuller,
William Harold Smith,
William Daniel Smith, and
Wi Karipi,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the
name of the Urenui Pa Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the
Board”), in trust, for scenic and historic purposes, 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 July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four,
   at eight o’clock p.m., in the Library, Urenui.
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 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.
   SCHEDULE
   TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT
   ALL that area containing by admeasurement 7 acres 0 roods 20
   perches, more or less, and being Subdivision 28 l of Section 2,
   Block III, Waitara Survey District.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
   this 19th day of July, 1944.
   C. F. SKINNER,
   Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
   (L. and S. 4/707.)