Revoking the Reservation over Reserves in the New River Hundred,
Southland Land District

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

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of
March, 1946

Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon him by subsection one (b) of section seven 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 revoke the reservation as a site for a
mechanics' institute over the land described in the First Schedule
hereto, and doth hereby revoke the reservation for gravel purposes
over the land described in the Second Schedule hereto; and doth
hereby declare that the said lands, being vested in the Crown,
are Crown lands available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.

FIRST SCHEDULE
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT

All that area containing 2 roods, more or less, being part Section 67,
Block XIII, New River Hundred: Bounded towards the west and
north by other part of Section 67 aforesaid, 200 links and 250 links
respectively; towards the east and south by public roads, 200 links
and 250 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages a little
more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan
marked L. and S. 22/3630/8, deposited in the Head Office, Department
of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

SECOND SCHEDULE
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT

All that area containing 2 acres, more or less, being part Section 67,
Block XIII, New River Hundred: Bounded towards the west and
north by Section 27, Block XIII, New River Hundred, 500 links and
500 links respectively; towards the east by a public road, 300 links;
towards the south and east by other part of Section 67 aforesaid,
250 links and 200 links respectively; towards the south by
another public road: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or
less. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked
L. and S. 22/3630/8, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

W. O. HARVEY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 22/3630/8.)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Croydon Public Hall Board

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

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of
March, 1946

Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by
Warrant dated the twentieth day of May, one thousand
nine hundred and nineteen, and published in Gazette of the twenty-
second day of that month, permanently reserved for a site for a
public hall: 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 con-
sent 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 under-
mentioned persons, namely,--

David Warnock McCall,
Anthony Thomas Kubala,
James Fraser Grant,
John Alexander Nicholson, and
Kenneth Donald Tuach,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the
name of the Croydon Public Hall 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
   third Thursday in each month at seven-thirty o'clock p.m. at the
   Croydon 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 Thursday, the twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine
   hundred and forty-six.

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, pro-
   vided 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 the 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 hall, and shall also afford
   settlers and residents of Croydon and the surrounding 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
   have power to fix reasonable charges for the use of the said hall.

SCHEDULE

All that area in the Southland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being part Section 122, Block
LXXI, Hokonui Survey District: Bounded towards the north-
west by a public road, 500 links; towards the north-east by part
Section 122, Block LXXI aforesaid, 205.12 links; towards the
south-east by part Section 122 aforesaid, 500 links; and towards
the south-west by a public road, 205.12 links: be all the aforesaid
linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 22/690, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

W. O. HARVEY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 22/690.)

Dissolving Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council and vesting Property,
&c., in Auckland Metropolitan Milk Board

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

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of
March, 1946

Present:

The Right Hon. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District constituted
under the Milk Act, 1944, includes substantially the whole
of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District constituted under the
Auckland Metropolitan Milk Act, 1933:

And whereas the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Board is the
Milk Authority of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District
constituted under the Milk Act, 1944:

And whereas it is expedient that provision be made as
hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council,
and in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on him by
section one hundred and twenty-one of the Milk Act, 1944, and of
all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth
hereby order and declare as follows:--

1. This Order shall come into force on the first day of April,
   one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.

2. All the property, real and personal, of the Auckland
   Metropolitan Milk Council (hereinafter called the Council), consti-
   tuted under the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Act, 1933, is hereby
   vested in the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Board (hereinafter called
   the Board), constituted under the Milk Act, 1944.

3. All moneys which would be payable to the Council but for
   the making of this Order shall be paid to the Board, which shall be
   entitled to take in its own name all proceedings necessary for the
   recovery thereof.

4. All debts, liabilities, and engagements of the Council shall
   be debts, liabilities, and engagements of the Board, and shall be
   paid or discharged by the Board.

5. All proceedings pending by or against the Council on the
   coming into force of this Order may be prosecuted by or against
   the Board.

6. The Auckland Metropolitan Milk District constituted under
   the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Act, 1933, is hereby abolished and
   the Council is hereby dissolved.

W. O. HARVEY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.