APRIL 20]

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Paerata Ridge Public Hall Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of April, 1950
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in Gazette of the seventeenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter provided:
Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section seventeen of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,

John Alexander Redpath,
John Daryl Clark,
David Crawford, the younger,
George Alfred Lambert, and
George Alexander Donaldson
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Paerata Ridge Public Hall Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board), with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business at the Paerata Ridge Public Hall, or at such other place and at such time as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, at eight o'clock p.m.
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 any 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. 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.
6. 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.
7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.
8. The Board shall have prepared and submitted 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 of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.
9. The Board shall control the said reserve and any building that may be erected thereon for the purposes of a public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Paerata Ridge and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said hall as may from time to time be determined by the Board: Provided that the Board shall have power to fix reasonable charges for the use of the said hall.
   SCHEDULE
   GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT

ALLOTMENT 519, Waiotahi Parish, situated in Blocks II and VI, Opotiki Survey District: Area, 4 acres, more or less. (S.O. plan 4515.)

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

(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/892 ; D.O. 8/850.)

Revoking the Reservation Over a Reserve in Block XII, Opunake Survey District, Taranaki Land District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of April, 1950
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the reservation for gravel purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said land, being vested in the Crown, is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1948.

SCHEDULE
TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 3, Block XII, Opunake Survey District: Area, 1 acre 3 roods 11 perches, more or less. (Plan M.L. 53.)

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

(L. and S. H.O. 57408 ; D.O. VI/15.)

Revoking the Reservation Over Reserves in Coleridge and Fighting Hill Survey Districts, Canterbury Land District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of April, 1950
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (b) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks 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 revoke the reservation for plantation purposes over the lands described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said lands, being vested in the Crown, are Crown lands available for disposal under the Land Act, 1948.

SCHEDULE
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area situated in Block XIV, Coleridge Survey District, and Blocks I and II, Fighting Hill Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1,116 acres 1 rood 30 perches, more or less, being parts of Reserves 1829 and 1830. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 49135U, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

Also all that area situated in Blocks V and VII, Fighting Hill Survey District, containing by admeasurement 348 acres 2 roods 1 perch, more or less, being parts of Reserves 1778, 1779, and 3929. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 49135T., deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

(L. and S. H.O. 49135 ; D.O. 4/2/7B and 8/52.)

Revoking the Reservation Over Portions of the Hamilton Domain, South Auckland Land District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of April, 1950
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS a notice of intention to issue an Order in Council declaring that the portions of the Hamilton Domain, described in the Schedule hereto, shall cease to be subject to Part II of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, and shall be deemed to be Crown lands available for disposal by way of sale for cash under the Land Act, 1948, was published in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine:

And whereas such notice of intention was duly laid before both Houses of Parliament in accordance with the provisions of subsection two of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928:

And whereas the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, by resolutions dated the twentieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, approved the proposed revocation as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by subsection one of section forty-one of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the portions of the Hamilton Domain described in the Schedule hereto shall cease to be subject to Part II of the said Act, and shall be Crown lands available for disposal by way of sale for cash under the Land Act, 1948.

SCHEDULE
SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—PORTIONS OF HAMILTON DOMAIN
ALL that area in the Waipa County, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 36.72 perches, more or less, being Lots 18, 19, 20, and 21 on D.P. 21904, being parts of Allotments 33 and 291, Pukete Parish, Block XIII, Komakorau Survey District.