2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and
   thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter provided, elect one
   of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion,
   and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.
3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided
   that two days' notice of 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. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes
   of the members of the Board present at the meeting.
6. 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 for such meeting.
7. 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.
8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting
   to be held in the month of May 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.
9. The Board shall control the said reserves in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE
PUNAKAIKI SCENIC RESERVES
Section or
Reserve No. | Block. | Survey District. | Area.
---|---|---|---
| | Nelson Land District |
3 | V | Brighton | 245 0 0
8 | V | " | 25 0 0
11 | V | " | 314 0 0
12 | V | " | 287 0 0
13 | V | " | 410 0 0
15 | V | " | 75 0 0
16 | V | " | 48 2 0
Part 2 | IX | " | 194 2 14
3 | IX | " | 283 0 17
6 | IX | " | 474 0 0
7 | IX | " | 325 0 0
14 | IX | " | 18 2 0
15 | IX | " | 40 0 0
22 | IX | " | 52 3 15
24 | IX | " | 0 0 10
25 | IX | " | 0 0 0·1
26 | IX | " | 0 0 8·7
27 | IX | " | 1 3 36
28 | IX | " | 0 0 14
29 | IX | " | 0 1 20
30 | IX | " | 0 0 10
31 | IX | " | 0 0 23
32 | IX | " | 0 1 3
33 | IX | " | 0 0 0·1
34 | IX | " | 0 0 2·3
| | Westland Land District |
966 | I | Punakaiki | 46 1 2·2
967 | I | " | 134 2 0
968 | II | " | 58 0 0
969 | I | " | 18 0 9·4
970 | I | " | 48 0 0
1002 | IX | Waiwhero | 7 1 32
1137 | I | " | 16 1 7
1471 | IX | " | 103 0 0
1766 | I | Punakaiki | 8 0 0
1767 | I | " | 5 0 0

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 16th day of December, 1947.
C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 4/6.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Christchurch City Council
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Christchurch City Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:-

1. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserves.

Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.
2. The said Council shall control the said reserves in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE
Canterbury Land District.--Summit Road Scenic Reserves
RESERVE No. 3818 : Area, 2 acres 2 roods 35 perches. Block II, Sumner Survey District.
Reserve No. 3817 : Area, 13 acres 2 roods 8 perches. Block XVI, Christchurch Survey District; Block I, Pigeon Bay Survey District; and Block II, Sumner Survey District.
Reserve No. 3816 : Area, 18 acres 2 roods 5 perches. Block XVI, Christchurch Survey District; and Block IV, Halswell Survey District.
Reserve No. 3815 : Area, 13 acres 0 roods 37 perches. Block IV, Halswell Survey District.
Reserve No. 3814 : Area, 13 acres 1 rood 9 perches. Block IV, Halswell Survey District.
Reserve No. 4149 : Area, 4 acres 0 roods 16·9 perches. Block III, Halswell Survey District.
Reserve No. 4170 : Area, 272 acres 1 rood. Block III, Halswell Survey District.
Reserve No. 4259 : Area, 63 acres 1 rood 5 perches. Block III, Halswell Survey District.
Reserve No. 4476 : Area, 6·8 perches. Block IV, Halswell Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 16th day of December, 1947.
C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 4/353.)

Land temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve the land in the Auckland Land District, described in the Schedule hereunder written, for recreation purposes.

SCHEDULE
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT
ALL that area in the Borough of Huntly containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 10·5 perches, more or less, as shown on S.O. plan 31946, being parts of Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, Block III, on D.P. 9386, being portion of Allotment 8, Taupiri Parish, and being portion of the land comprised and described in Certificate of Title, Volume 718, folio 203 (Auckland Land Registry), excepting all coal, fireclay, and other minerals in, upon, or under the said land subject to the mineral rights created in and by Transfer 207274. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/1107A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of December, 1947.
H. G. R. MASON,
For the Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 1/1107.)

Land temporarily reserved in the North Auckland Land District
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral licence, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve the land in the North Auckland Land District, described in the Schedule hereunder written, for an addition to a public-school site (Kaitaia).

SCHEDULE
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 31, Block V, Takahue Survey District: Area, 2 roods 14·5 perches, more or less. (North Auckland plan S.O. 34629.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December, 1947.
C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 6/1/675.)