May 18] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 585

hereto for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the under-mentioned persons, namely, —

Charles Thomas Ruddenklau,
Hugh Nisbet Andrew Chisholm,
Donald William Stirling,
Archibald McEwan,
Donald Clark McKenzie,
Hector Lindsay McKenzie,
Andrew Crosbie Riddle,
Kenneth George Golden,
George Logie McEwan,
Joseph White,
John Douglas Anderson, and
John Rodrick McKenzie

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Fortrose 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 Fortrose 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 Friday, the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, at half-past eight o’clock p.m., in the Fortrose Hall.

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 six 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 the building erected thereon for the purposes of a public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Fortrose 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.

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SCHEDULE
SOUTH LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 1 rood 16·2 perches, more or less, being Lot 1 on a plan deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar, at Invercargill, under No. 4052, and being part of Section 1, Block III, Town of Fortrose, and being also part of the land in certificate of title, Volume 45, folio 28 (Southland Land Registry). As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3630/84, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged blue.

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

(L. and S. H.O. 22/3630/84 ; D.O. 8/159.)

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Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Hamua Public Hall Board
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B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of May, 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 27th day of June, 1907, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve shall 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 17 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, —

Ian Martin Bourke,
John Joseph Galvin,
Robert Bruce Humphrey,
Thomas Arthur Manderson, and
Louis Victor Russell,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Hamua 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 on the last Friday in each month at 8 o’clock p.m. at the Hamua Public Hall, 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 Friday, the 26th day of May, 1950.

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 31st 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 the building erected thereon for the purposes of a public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Hamua 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.

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SCHEDULE
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

SUBDIVISION J, No. 4c, Mangatainoka Block (Block XIV, Mangahao Survey District) : Area, 1 rood, more or less.

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

(L. and S. H.O. 1/631 ; D.O. 24861.)

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Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Whangaehu Public Hall Board
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B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of May, 1950
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart 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 17 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 George McKay,
John Gavin Falloon,
Donald Bruce McKenzie,
William Bruce Cameron, and
Harvey Bishop Ward

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Whangaehu 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 first meeting of the Board shall be held on Tuesday, the 16th day of May, 1950, at 7.30 o’clock p.m. at the Whangaehu Public 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.