Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Kopuru Town Domain
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of July, 1946
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 revoke an Order in Council dated the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of that month, and doth hereby appoint-
Wallace Grant Campbell,
Harold Fischer,
Sigurd Emil Fransen,
Duncan Hampton,
Edward Clifton Rope,
Edward Richard Rope,
Mate Sunde,
Arthur Hugh Towgood, and
Ernest James Ward
to be the Kopuru Town Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Tuesday, the twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, at a quarter to eight o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the Oddfellows' Hall, Te Kopuru, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.
SCHEDULE
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-KOPURU TOWN DOMAIN
ALL that area in the Hobson County, situated in Block V, Tokatoka Survey District, containing by admeasurement 16 acres 1 rood 1 perch, more or less, being Allotment 142 and Lot 22 on D.P. 17979, being part Allotment 149, Kopuru Parish.
W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 1/262.)
Revoking the Reservation over a Reserve in Town of Heriot, Otago Land District
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of July, 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 for a post-office site over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said land, being vested in the Crown, is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.
SCHEDULE
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 23, Block IV, Town of Heriot : Area, 1 rood, more or less
W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 6/6/412.)
Revoking the Reservation over a Reserve in Rawene Township, North Auckland Land District
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of July, 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 for police purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said land, being vested in the Crown, is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.
SCHEDULE
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT
SECTIONS 136 and 137, Rawene Township: Area, 2 roods 11.7 perches, more or less.
W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 6/1/57.)
Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Raurimu Public Hall Board
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of July, 1946
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in the Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, 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 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,-
Walter Leslie Barnett,
Thomas Newton Kitchener Somerville,
Hugh Gunn Dodds,
Laurence Harold Temperton, and
Gladys Winifred Dodds
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Raurimu 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 last Thursday in each month, at eight o'clock p.m., at the Raurimu 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 Monday, the seventh day of October, 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, 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 hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Raurimu 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 power to fix reasonable charges for the use of the said hall.
   SCHEDULE
   WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT
   SECTION 7, Block II, Raurimu Township: Area, 31 perches, more or less.
   W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
   (L. and S. 1911/1641.)
   Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908
   B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
   ORDER IN COUNCIL
   At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of July, 1946
   Present:
   His Excellency The Governor-General in Council
   WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject