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 the 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 Bell Hill 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

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT

RESERVE 641, Block I, Kopara Survey District: Area, 2 roods, more or less.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 1/822; D.O. 8/47/49.)

Foreshore Licence: Wharves at Waitangi, Bay of Islands Harbour.—Waitangi National Reserve

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1950 Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
Pursuant to the Harbours Act, 1923, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby vest in the Waitangi National Reserve (hereinafter called the licensee, which term shall include its successors or assigns, unless the context requires a different construction), the management of the wharf and stone jetty at Waitangi, Bay of Islands Harbour, as shown on plans marked M.D. 8959 and M.D. 9075 respectively, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, for the purpose of maintaining the wharf and stone jetty thereon as shown on the said plans, such vesting to be subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

CONDITIONS

1. This licence is subject to the Foreshore Licence Regulations 1940, and the provisions of those regulations shall, as far as possible, apply hereto.

2. The annual sum payable by the licensee to the Minister shall be one shilling (1s.), payable on demand.

3. The term of the licence shall be fourteen years from the lst day of July, 1950.

4. The Master of every vessel discharging ballast at the said wharf or stone jetty shall have all such ballast taken away and deposited above high water mark or at such place as may be approved by the Minister or any person appointed by the Minister for that purpose.

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

Foreshore Licence: Wharf.—Leask Bay, Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1950 Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
Pursuant to the Harbours Act, 1923, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby license and permit George Leask, Alex Gordon Gifford, and Percy Willa (as trustees for the inhabitants of the district, which term shall include their successors or assigns, unless the context requires a different construction), to use and occupy a part of the foreshore at Leask Bay, Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island, as shown on plan marked M.D. 3800, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, for the purpose of maintaining a wharf thereon as shown on the said plan, such licence to be held and enjoyed by the licensees upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

CONDITIONS

1. This licence is subject to the Foreshore Licence Regulations 1940, and the provisions of those regulations shall, so far as applicable, apply hereto.

2. The annual sum payable by the licensees shall be one shilling (1s.), payable on demand to the Minister.

3. The term of the licence shall be fourteen years from the 1st day of July, 1950.

4. The master of any vessel discharging ballast at the said wharf shall have all such ballast taken away and deposited above high-water mark or at such place as may be approved by the Minister or by any person appointed by the Minister for that purpose.

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

Vesting the Control of Part of the Foreshore at Whakatane in the Ohope Beach Domain Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1950 Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL WHEREAS it is enacted by section 158 of the Harbours Act, 1923 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that where the foreshore outside the limits of a harbour is not vested in any Harbour Board or other local authority, the Governor-General may by Order in Council grant, for a period not exceeding twenty-one years, the control of such part or parts thereof as he thinks fit in any local authority, Domain Board, or persons acting as trustees for the inhabitants of the locality upon such conditions as may be prescribed in the Order:

And whereas the foreshore hereinafter described is not vested in any Harbour Board or other local authority, and the Ohope Beach Domain Board (hereinafter called the Board) has applied to the Governor-General in Council for the control thereof:

And whereas it is desirable that the control should be granted to the Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby grant to the Board the control of the foreshore as described in the First Schedule hereto, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE

AREA OF FORESHORE

South Auckland Land District

All that area being that portion of the foreshore of the Bay of Plenty between the northern headland of Otawairere Bay and the easternmost extremity of the Ohope Land Spit, being a point on the western shore of the entrance of the Ohiwa Harbour.

As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked M.D. 9070, deposited in the Head Office of the Marine Department, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

SECOND SCHEDULE

CONDITIONS

1. In these conditions the terms—

“Foreshore” means such parts of the bed, shore, or banks of a tidal water as are covered and uncovered by the flow and ebb of the tide at ordinary spring tides:

“Low-water mark” means low-water mark at ordinary spring tides:

“Minister” means the Minister of Marine as defined by the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall extend and apply only to those parts of the foreshore as shown edged red on plan marked M.D. 9070, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington.

3. His Majesty or the Governor-General, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress out and over the said foreshore without payment.

4. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Board to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or with any regulation of the Minister of Customs, or with any provision of the Harbours Act, 1923, or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are or may hereafter be in force.

5. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall not apply to those portions of the foreshore required for securing the shore ends of any telegraph-cables that are at present or may be at any time laid down within the said area of foreshore.

6. The Board may enclose any part or parts of the foreshore described in the First Schedule hereto for the purpose of holding athletic sports or games, and may by by-law fix a charge for admission to such enclosed part or parts, provided that the total number of days on which such enclosures are made shall not exceed six in any one year.