SEPT. 14] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1115

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Puniwhakau Domain

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of September, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-four of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 appoint

• John Welch,
• William James Alexander Watherston,
• Stephen Jackson Gedge,
• Harold Victor Baldock,
• Lawrence Elliot Kendall,
• Frederic Charles Gatton, and
• Lawrence Bellamy

to be the Puniwhakau Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Wednesday, the twentieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, at half past seven o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Schoolhouse, Puniwhakau, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE

PUNIWHAKAU DOMAIN.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT

SECTIONS 22 and 23, Puniwhakau Village, Block III, Omona Survey District: Area, 2 acres and 6 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 1/303.)

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Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Strath Taieri Soldiers’ Memorial Board

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of September, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for a site for a war memorial:

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 a period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

• Francis Mortimer Howell,
• William Henry Brenssell,
• Andrew Carruthers,
• Murdo Alexander Matheson,
• John Edward James,
• Albert Ernest Macdonald, and
• George Angus Albert McDonald,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Strath Taieri Soldiers’ Memorial 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 at the Public School, Middlemarch, or at such other place and at such time as may be from time to time fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Thursday, the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, at eight o’clock p.m.

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 be 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. 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 a 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 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.

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SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 1 rood 30·3 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 2, Block V, Township of Middlemarch, being part of Section 71, Block IX, Strath Taieri Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by a public road, 306·3 links; towards the south-east by Lot 3, 213·3 links; towards the south-west by Lot 10, 269·2 links; towards the north-west by a public road, 102·7 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3915, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

(L. and S. 22/3915.)

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Extending the Open Season for the taking or killing of Opossums, Rotorua Acclimatization District

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of September, 1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance of the powers conferred on him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby amend the Order in Council made under the said Act dated the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, and appearing in the New Zealand Gazette number sixteen of the second idem, at page 212, by deleting the words “1st October” appearing under the heading “Rotorua Acclimatization District” in the Schedule to such Order in Council, and contained in Condition Number One under the said heading, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words “1st November.” And all licenses issued to take or kill opossums in the Rotorua Acclimatization District under the authority of the said Order in Council are hereby extended until noon on the said first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four.

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

(I.A. 49/2/11.)

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The Eastern Side of Portion of Watson Street, in the Borough of New Plymouth, 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 13th day of September, 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 anywise 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 New Plymouth Borough Council on the seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, viz.:—

“The New Plymouth Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the Borough of New Plymouth, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight, subsection one, of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall not apply to the eastern side of the portion of Watson Street adjoining Section 2042, Town of New Plymouth, Certificate of Title, Volume 127, folio 99 (Taranaki Registry)”;

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

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SCHEDULE

THE eastern side of all that portion of street situated in the Taranaki Land District, Borough of New Plymouth, known as Watson Street, fronting part Section 2042, Town of New Plymouth. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 119905, 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. 51/95.)