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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 56

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,—

Ellen Ruth Telfer,
William George Wall,
Colin Telfer,
William Edward Warren,
John James Donald,
William Charles Harry Kiff, and
Frank Edgar Southcombe,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by
the name of the Owhango Public Hall and Library Board (herein
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
   fourth Wednesday of each month at eight o’clock p.m. at the
   Owhango Public Hall, 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 Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand
   nine hundred and forty-five, 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 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 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 hall and library, and
   shall also afford settlers and residents of Owhango and the surround-
   ing district such facilities for meeting within the said hall 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 hall.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 17, Block I, Town of Owhango: Area, 1 rood.

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

(L. and S. 22/2352.)

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The Census Regulations 1945

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C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

By his Deputy,

MICHAEL MYERS

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of
August, 1945

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Census and Statistics Act, 1926, His
Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby make
the following regulations.

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REGULATIONS

1. These regulations may be cited as the Census Regulations

3. In these regulations “the said Act” means the Census and
   Statistics Act, 1926.

4. These regulations shall apply only to the census to be taken
   in the year 1945.

5. The particulars to be obtained from every occupier or person
   in charge of a dwelling shall be particulars relating to all of the
   matters enumerated in section 5 of the said Act and the other
   particulars hereinafter prescribed,

6. In addition to the particulars specified in section 5 of the
   said Act, particulars relating to the following matters shall be
   obtained:—

(i) In respect of every occupant of a dwelling—

(a) Relation to head of household:

(b) Number of children born alive and number under 16 years
of age:

(c) Usual number of hours worked per week for wages, salary,
or financial reward:

(d) Occupational status:

(e) Name of employer:

(f) Intended profession, occupation, industry, and occupational
status in normal or post-war conditions:

(g) Number of working-days lost through sickness, accident,
or unemployment during year ended the 30th day of
June, 1945:

(h) Income earned during year ended the 31st day of March,
1945, or other convenient date:

(i) Usual travelling-time between residence and place of work:

(j) Usual place of residence:

(k) Overseas war service.

(ii) In respect of the dwelling in which residing—

(l) Name of occupier or person in charge:

(m) Number of occupants and sex of each:

(n) Location:

(o) Distance from nearest neighbourhood shops, from nearest
transport service, and from nearest public primary
school:

(p) Tenure:

(q) Rent payable:

(r) Source of electricity-supply:

(s) Nature of water-supply:

(t) Cooking appliances:

(u) Provision of hot-water, bath and toilet facilities:

(v) Poultry kept and eggs produced.

6. In any case in which the prescription of particulars
   contained in the said Act and these regulations is insufficient
   completely to indicate the nature of the information to be furnished,
   the Government Statistician shall have power to direct by means
   of instructions contained in a census schedule the precise nature
   of the particulars required.

7. It shall not be obligatory to collect the whole of the par-
   ticulars herein and in the said Act prescribed in respect of any
   person or class of persons in respect of whom the Government
   Statistician considers that any specified particulars need not be
   collected, and the Government Statistician shall have power to
   direct accordingly.

8. The regulations referred to in the Schedule hereto are
   revoked.

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SCHEDULE

REGULATIONS REVOKED

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

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Extending Period within which the Commission appointed to Inquire
into and Report upon Licensing Matters in New Zealand shall
report

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GEORGE THE SIXTH by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland,
and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender
of the Faith:

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved the HONOURABLE MR. DAVID
STANLEY SMITH, a Judge of the Supreme Court, PERCY
TAYLOR COYLE, GEORGE WILLIAM HUTCHISON, EDMUND
COLIN NIGEL ROBINSON, JAMES PATRICK RUTH, the
REVEREND JOHN THOMSON MACKY, PERCY MALTHUS,
the HONOURABLE MR. FREDERICK GEORGE YOUNG, and
BELLA FERNIE LOGIE: GREETING.

WHEREAS by Our Warrant dated the thirty-first day of
January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, you, the said

David Stanley Smith,
Percy Taylor Coyle,
George William Hutchison,
Edmund Colin Nigel Robinson,
James Patrick Ruth,
John Thomson Macky,
Percy Malthus, and
Frederick George Young,

together with Thomas Jordan, of Masterton, Barrister and Solicitor,
now deceased, were appointed under the authority of the Letters
Patent of His late Majesty dated the eleventh day of May, one
thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and under the authority of
the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, to be a Commission of Inquiry
for the purposes in the said Warrant duly set out: