MAY 6] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 481

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 conferred upon me by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said

Herbert Edgar Evans,
George William Clinkard,
Andrew John Park,
Stuart Wentworth Innes-Ker Peterson, and
John Ralfe Smith

to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon :—

(1) Generally, the working of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1908, the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, and the several Acts amending those Acts, and the practice of the Patent Office and of the Courts in relation to matters arising therefrom, and whether any, and if so what, changes in those Acts or that practice are desirable.

(2) In particular—

(a) The initiation, conduct, and determination of legal proceedings arising under or out of the said Acts :

(b) The provisions of the said Acts for the prevention of the abuse of monopoly rights :

(c) What amendments of those Acts or of procedure thereunder would in your opinion facilitate the expeditious settlement and the reduction of the cost of legal proceedings in cases arising under the said Acts and would encourage the use of inventions and the progress of industry and trade :

And, with the like advice and consent, I do further appoint you, the said Herbert Edgar Evans, to be Chairman of the said Commission :

And it is hereby declared that the powers hereby conferred shall be exercisable notwithstanding the absence at any time of one of the members hereby appointed so long as the Chairman, or a member deputed by the Chairman to act in his stead, and at least three other members be present and concur in the exercise of such powers :

And you are hereby authorized to conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and to call before you and to examine on oath or otherwise such persons as you think capable of affording you information as to the matters aforesaid, and to call for and examine all such books, papers, writings, and documents as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on any such matters :

And you are hereby given liberty to report your proceedings and findings under this Commission from time to time if you shall judge it expedient so to do :

And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me under your hands and seals not later than the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof :

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, save to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport of any report so made or to be made by you :

And it is hereby declared that this Commission shall continue in full force although the inquiry be not regularly continued by adjournments from time to time or from place to place :

And, lastly, it is hereby further declared that these presents are issued under and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 28th day of April, 1948.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Approved in Council—

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointment of Member of the Medical Advertisements Board under the Medical Advertisements Act, 1942

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the Medical Advertisements Act, 1942, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Felix John Theodore Grigg, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., of Wellington, an analyst under the Food and Drugs Act, 1947,

to be a member of the Medical Advertisements Board under the first aforementioned Act in place of Robert Leslie Andrew, who has retired.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 27th day of April, 1948.

M. B. HOWARD, Minister of Health.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Tukituki River Scenic Board

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, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule below (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act) in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

William Lourie,
Harry Mayson Winlove,
Hugh Henry George Bennett,
Jack Russell,
James Windle,
George Eric Stiles, and
Samuel John Alder

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Tukituki River Scenic Reserve Board (herein referred to as the Board), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say :—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Tuesday, the fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, at eight o’clock p.m., in the Waipukurau Chamber of Commerce Offices, Waipukurau, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business at such time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

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 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 four 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 a 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 of 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 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—TUKITUKI RIVER SCENIC RESERVE

SECTION 18, Block XIV, Waipukurau Survey District: Area, 22 acres 3 roods 25 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of May, 1948.

C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 479.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Papatoai Scenic Board

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, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being lands reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act) in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

Kenneth Ross,
Archibald McArthur
Archibald James Roy Flett,
James Richard Peterson,
Frederick Schmades McCullough,
David Forest Harris, and
William Wells,