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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 22

Vesting the Control of Scenic and Historic Reserves in the New Plymouth Scenic Reserves Board Under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908

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 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,—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District, ex officio,
His Worship the Mayor of New Plymouth, ex officio,
Victor Caddy Davies,
Edmund William Markham Lysons,
Thomas Montague Avery,
Michael Neville,
Byford Alford Norman, and
Allan Francis Waters,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the New Plymouth Scenic Reserves 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 Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the fourth Thursday in the months of January, April, July, and October in each year, at ten o’clock a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, 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-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine.

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 be 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 five 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 charged with the administration of the said Act 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 of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT

Pukemiro Scenic Reserve

PART Section 7, Block III, Waitara Survey District: Area, 7 acres 2 roods 18 perches. As the same is more particularly described in a Proclamation published in the Gazette No. 23 of the 25th March, 1909, page 832.

Onaero River Scenic Reserve

Part Section 102, Block VII, Waitara Survey District: Area, 10 acres 0 roods 30 perches.
Also part Section 101, Block VII, Waitara Survey District: Area, 3 acres 0 roods 26 perches.
As the same are more particularly described in a Proclamation published in the Gazette No. 75 of the 30th August, 1906, page 2288.

Ratapihipihi Scenic Reserve

Subdivision 1 of part of Native Reserve 5, Omata District (Ratapihipihi), Block VIII, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 50 acres. As the same is more particularly described in a Warrant published in the Gazette No. 73 of the 26th April, 1917, page 1407.

Puketi Pa Scenic Reserve

Reserve Y, New Plymouth Town Belt: Area, 9 acres 3 roods 20 perches. As the same is more particularly described in a Warrant published in the Gazette No. 73 of the 26th April, 1917, page 1407.

Pukerangiora Pa

Part Section 179, Huirangi District, Block IX, Waitara Survey District: Area, 36 acres. As the same is more particularly described in a Proclamation published in the Gazette No. 77 of the 28th September, 1911, page 2907.

Meeting-of-the-Waters Scenic Reserve

Portion of Native Reserve J, portion of Section 158, and portion of the Waiwakaiho River-bed, all situated in the Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred, Block X, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 39 acres 0 roods 20 perches.

Also portion of Section 158, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred, Block X, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 1 acre.

Also portion of Section 158, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred, Block X, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 4 acres 2 roods 20 perches.

Also portion of Native Reserve L, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred, Block X, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 13 acres 3 roods.

Also portion of Native Reserve L, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred, Block X, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 3 acres 0 roods 30 perches.

As the same are more particularly described in a Warrant published in the Gazette No. 81 of the 10th May, 1917, page 1990.

Also Lot 1 on D.P. 4790, being part Section 1, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred, Block X, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 11 perches.

As the same is more particularly described in a Proclamation published in Gazette No. 59 of the 29th August, 1929, page 2173.

Okoki Pa Scenic Reserve

Part Section 24, Block IV, Waitara Survey District: Area, 42 acres 2 roods.

Awa-te-iake Pa Scenic Reserve

Part Section 77, Tikorangi District, Block IX, Waitara Survey District: Area, 9 acres 1 rood.

Also Section 2, Block IX, Waitara Survey District, and part Section 44, Tikorangi District, Block IX, Waitara Survey District: Area, 3 roods 29 perches.

Te Koru Pa Reserve

Section 167, Oakura District, Block II, Wairau Survey District: Area, 3 acres 1 rood.

Also Section 173, Oakura District, Block II, Wairau Survey District: Area, 16 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of March, 1949.

C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. H.O. 4/323; D.O. 13/24.)

Appointments of Officers of the N.Z. Regular Force

Army Department,
Wellington, 30th March, 1949.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments of officers of the New Zealand Regular Force :—

GENERALS’ LIST

Major-General Sir Norman W. McD. Weir, K.B.E., C.B., relinquishes the appointments of Chief of the General Staff and First Military Member of the Army Board. Dated 31st March, 1949.

Brigadier K. L. Stewart, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., relinquishes the appointments of Adjutant-General, Army Headquarters, and Second Military Member of the Army Board, dated 31st March, 1949, is promoted to the rank of Major-General, and is appointed Chief of the General Staff and First Military Member of the Army Board, dated 1st April, 1949.

COLONELS’ LIST

Brigadier W. G. Gentry, D.S.O., O.B.E., is appointed Adjutant-General, Army Headquarters, and Second Military Member of the Army Board. Dated 1st April, 1949.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotion, and Relinquishments of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 24th March, 1949.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointments, promotion, and relinquishments of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :—

REGULAR AIR FORCE

MEDICAL BRANCH

Promotion

70353 Flight Lieutenant Donald Galbraith MacNEILL, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., to be Squadron Leader (temp.). Dated 1st March, 1949.

TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE

TECHNICAL BRANCH

Appointment

Engineer Division—

130141 Joseph Frederick BAND, on relinquishing his commission in the Reserve of Air Force Officers, is granted a commission for a period of five years in the temporary rank of Flight Lieutenant with seniority as from 5th April, 1946. Dated 1st January, 1949.