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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
{No. 52

The Western and Southern Sides Generally of Portion of Paetaia Road, in the County of Waitotara, Exempted from the Provisions of Section 128 of the Public Works Act, 1928, Subject to a Condition as to the Building-line

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of September, 1948

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Waitotara County Council on the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, viz.:

“That the Waitotara County Council, being the local authority having the control of the roads in the County of Waitotara, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall not apply to the western and southern sides of the Paetaia Road fronting Lot 2, D.P. 8632, and Lot 1, D.P. 11028, Block XIII, Wairoa Survey District (C.T. 385/168 and 456/46)”; subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the western and southern sides generally of the portion of Paetaia Road (described in the Schedule hereto) within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of road.

SCHEDULE

THE western and southern sides generally of all that portion of road situated in the Wellington Land District, County of Waitotara, known as Paetaia Road, fronting part Lot 2 on D.P. 8632 and part Lot 1 on D.P. 11028, being part Section 45, Waitotara District, Block XIII, Wairoa Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 127575, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 39/545.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Pelorus 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 hereto (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,—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Blenheim, ex officio,
The Mayor of Blenheim, ex officio,
The Mayor of Nelson, ex officio,
The Chairman, Marlborough County Council, ex officio,
The Chairman, Waimea County Council, ex officio,
The President, Marlborough Automobile Association, ex officio,
The President, Nelson Automobile Association, ex officio,
The Conservator of Forests for the Nelson Conservancy, ex officio,
The Member for the Electoral District of Marlborough, ex officio,
The Member for the Electoral District of Nelson, ex officio,
Mark Walton Grace,
Alan Lester Jeffries-Bryant,
Alfred de Tracy Gould,
Sidney Alfred Gibbs, and
William John Elvy

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Pelorus Scenic 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 Thursday, the fourteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, at half past ten o’clock a.m., at the Pelorus Bridge, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the second Thursday in each quarter at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board. He 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 eight 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 may, with the approval of the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation, make such rules as it deems necessary for the good conduct of the public frequenting the reserve, and may set apart areas for camping-grounds or other purposes, and may fix reasonable charges for the use thereof in accordance with a scale to be approved from time to time by the Minister.

9. 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.

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

SCHEDULE

PELORUS SCENIC RESERVE.—MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of September, 1948.

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

(L. and S. 4/354.)

Appointing Five Non-elective Members of the Otago Catchment Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint—

William Edwin Shaw, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin,
William Leslie Bell, A.M.I.C.E., District Engineer, Ministry of Works, Dunedin,
Kenneth Willway Allison, Forest Ranger, State Forest Service, Dunedin,
Arthur Gordon Elliott, Fields Superintendent, Department of Agriculture, Dunedin, and
Hilary James Harrington, M.Sc., Geological Survey Branch, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Balclutha,

to be non-elective members of the Otago Catchment Board for a term commencing on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, and expiring on the thirtieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, this 22nd day of September, 1948.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/17.)