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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 47

SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—PURAKAUITI DOMAIN

SECTIONS 53 and 1429B, Block VII, Woodland Survey District: Area, 17 acres 0 roods 27 perches, more or less.

Also all that area containing by admeasurement 37 acres 2 roods 6 perches, more or less, being part Section 28, Block X, Woodland Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north-east by a public road and Section 1429B, Block VII, 5349·9 links; towards the east by a public road, 49·5 links; towards the south by other part Section 28, 4721·1 links; and towards the west by Section 14, Block IX, Woodland Survey District, 1616·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/967B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 1/967.)

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Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Harihari Domain

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of July, 1945

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

Clara Doris Mitchell,
Ellen Searle,
Robert Harper McMillan,
Ernest Arthur Kirby,
Harry Newton Osmers,
John Louis Mitchell, and
John Searle

to be the Harihari Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, at eight o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Public Hall, Harihari, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—HARIHARI DOMAIN

RESERVE 1379, Block I, Poerua Survey District: Area, 4 acres, more or less.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 1/720.)

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Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Hawksbury, Otago Land District

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of July, 1945

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart for the purposes of a mechanics’ institute or public library for the Town of Hawksbury: And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the reservation over such land shall be changed to a reserve for buildings of the General Government:

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 subsection one (a) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that the purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for the purposes of a mechanics’ institute or public library for the Town of Hawksbury to a reserve for buildings of the General Government.

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SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 6, Block XIV, Town of Hawksbury: Area, 1 rood, more or less.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 22/3630/30.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Nevis Public Library Board

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of July, 1945

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 library: 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:—

Gordon Scott McLean,
Ellis John Williams,
Francis Andrew McLean,
Stuart Edwin Jolly, and
George Stewart Brown,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Nevis Public Library 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 last Friday in each month at eight o’clock p.m., at the Nevis Public Library, 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 twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.

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 library, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Nevis and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said building 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 building.

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SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 35, Block III, Nevis Survey District: Area, 1 acre, more or less.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 22/3630/3.)

By Authority: E. V. PAUL, Government Printer, Wellington.

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