Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Willsheh Bay Scenic
Reserve 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 Chairman, Clutha County Council, ex-officio,
The Member of Clutha County Council representing South
Molyneux Riding, ex officio,
James Balfour Campbell,
James Cunningham,
Cecil Marcus Jackman,
George Dyer Cunningham,
William Andrew Dabinett,
Frank Albert Barber, and
John James Howard,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the
name of the Willsheh Bay 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 Monday,
   the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine,
   at half-past seven o'clock p.m., in the Kaka Point Hall, 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 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 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 April in each year a report of the pro-
   ceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first
   day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expendi-
   ture 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
   OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WILLSHER BAY SCENIC RESERVE
   ALL that area containing by admeasurement 121 acres 0 roods
   22 perches, more or less, being part of Section 48, Block IV, Glen-
   omaru Survey District; Bounded towards the north by a public
   road, 1180 links; towards the east by another part of Section 48,
   1800 links; towards the south-east by Karoro Stream, 5520 links;
   across a public road and towards the south-east generally by that
   stream, 6560 links; towards the west by Section 34, 1400·2 links;
   towards the north and north-west by another part of Section 48,
   2278·3 and 2473·1 links respectively; across a public road and
   again towards the north-west and west by said part Section 48,
   2679·7 and 2238·2 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages
   more or less, and excepting out of the above-described area one
   road-line 100 links wide. As the same is more particularly delineated
   on the plan marked L. and S. 4/131B, deposited in the Head Office,
   Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon
   bordered red.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
   this 29th day of June, 1949.
   C. F. SKINNER,
   Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
   (L. and S. H.O. 4/131 ; D.O. M.L.O. 192.)
   Exempting Land (State Coal Reserve) in the Westland Land District
   from the Operation of Part III of the Coal-mines Act, 1925
   B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
   IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
   upon me by subsection two of section one hundred and seventy-
   one of the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and of all other powers and
   authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Lieutenant-General Sir
   Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of
   New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land described in the
   Schedule hereto shall be exempt from the operation of Part III of
   the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and do hereby further declare that this
   notice shall take effect as from the date of the publication hereof
   in the New Zealand Gazette.
   SCHEDULE
   ALL that area of land in the Westland Land District containing by
   admeasurement 37·1 perches, more or less, being Section 1 and
   formerly parts of Sections 1 and 2, Block XXI, Town of Runanga.
   As the same is more particularly delineated on Hokitika Survey
   Office Plan No. 4491, and thereon in outline edged red.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
   this 28th day of June, 1949.
   A. McLAGAN, Minister of Mines.
   (Mines 6/10/70.)
   Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, and Resignations of Officers
   of the New Zealand Military Forces
   Army Department,
   Wellington, 28th June, 1949.
   His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
   approve of the following appointments, promotions, transfers,
   and resignations of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces:
   THE ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY
   Territorial Force—
   Wilfred Samuel Taylor (late Flying Officer, Royal N.Z. Air
   Force) to be Lieutenant, with seniority from 15th June, 1947, and
   is posted to the 3rd Field Regiment, R.N.Z.A. Dated 1st December,

10. THE ROYAL N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS
    Regular Force—
    N.Z. Regiment—
    Lieutenant and Quartermaster G. H. Martin to be Captain and
    Quartermaster. Dated 11th May, 1949.
    Territorial Force—
    The Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own)—
    Peter Brown Black to be 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.) and is
    seconded to the Auckland Grammar School Cadets, Area 1. Dated
    7th June, 1949.
    Paul Woodford Day to be 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.) and is
    seconded to King's College Cadets, Area 1. Dated 7th June, 1949.
    The North Auckland Regiment—
    Captain (temp. Major) C. V. Thomason, 1st Battalion, is posted
    to the Retired List with the rank of Major. Dated 26th May, 1949.
    2nd Lieutenant G. R. Harnett to be temp. Lieutenant and
    remains seconded to the Whangarei Boys' High School Cadets.
    Dated 1st April, 1949.
    The Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Regiment—
    Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Laurent, V.C., 1st Battalion,
    is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
    Dated 30th May, 1949.
    Temp. Major N. M. Izard, 1st Battalion, is transferred to the
    Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, with the rank of Major, with
    seniority from 26th July, 1945. Dated 1st May, 1949.
    Temp. Major G. G. Beaven, 1st Battalion, is transferred to
    the Reserve of Officers, General List, The Royal N.Z. Infantry
    Corps, with the rank of Major, with seniority from 30th April,

11. Dated 1st May, 1949.
    Captain (temp. Major) R. R. Henderson, E.D., 1st Battalion,
    is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List, The Royal
    N.Z. Infantry Corps, with the rank of Major, with seniority from
    1st April, 1942. Dated 1st May, 1949.
    Captain (temp. Major) R. W. Haddow, D.C.M., E.D.,—1st
    Battalion, is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Major.
    Dated 18th May, 1949.
    Captain G. D. Simpson, E.D., 1st Battalion, is transferred to
    the Reserve of Officers, General List, The Royal N.Z. Infantry
    Corps, with the rank of Captain, with seniority from 1st October,
12. Dated 1st May, 1949.
    Temp. Captain H. F. Low, 1st Battalion, is transferred to the
    Reserve of Officers, General List, The Royal N.Z. Infantry Corps,
    with the rank of Captain, with seniority from 15th July, 1944.
    Dated 1st May, 1949.
    Temp. Captain R. R. Morton, 1st Battalion, resigns his com-
    mission. Dated 25th May, 1949.
    Temp. Lieutenant I. V. Aroa, 1st Battalion, is transferred to
    the Reserve of Officers, General List, The Royal N.Z. Infantry
    Corps, with the rank of Lieutenant, with seniority from 28th
    November, 1942. Dated 1st May, 1949.