DEC. 21]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Taking Land for Public Purposes at Rarotonga (Cook Islands)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of December, 1950
Present:
THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
PURSUANT to section 357 of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby take the lands described in the Schedule hereto for the following public purpose—namely, a quarry.

SCHEDULE

1. ALL that parcel of land situate in the District of Avarua in the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, containing three roods twenty-one perches (0 a. 3 r. 21 p.), be the same a little more or less, being part of the land named by the Native Land Court Pokoinu Section 107, Avarua.
2. All that parcel of land situate in the District of Arorangi in the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, containing one acre three roods thirty-five perches (1 a. 3 r. 35 p.) be the same a little more or less, being part of the land named by the Native Land Court Tuoro Section 87A 5, Arorangi.
   The said parcels of land altogether comprising two acres three roods sixteen perches (2 a. 3 r. 16 p.), be the same a little more or less, as the same are delineated and coloured yellow and blue respectively on the plan signed by the Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Cook Islands at Rarotonga under No. 49.

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

Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board Election Order, 1950

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of December, 1950
Present:
THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Fire Services Act, 1949, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council made on the 13th day of May, 1936, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 14th day of May, 1936, at page 884, and doth hereby in lieu thereof make the following Order prescribing the time and method of election of members of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board.

1. This Order may be cited as the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board Election Order, 1950.

2. In this Order—
   “ The said Act” means the Fire Services Act, 1949;
   “The Board” means the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board;
   “City Member” means a member of the Board elected to represent the Auckland City Council;
   “Local Authority” means a local authority other than the Auckland City Council the district of which is within the Auckland Metropolitan Fire District;
   “Local Authority Member” means a member of the Board elected to represent the local authorities as hereinbefore defined.

3. For all elections under this Order the Returning Officer shall be the secretary of the Board for the time being.

4. The electors of the city members shall be the members of the Auckland City Council.

5. Every city member shall be elected by resolution passed at a special meeting of the Auckland City Council.

6. Unless an extraordinary vacancy otherwise requires, the next election of city members shall be held on some day in the month of February, 1951, and subsequent elections shall be held on some day in the same month of every third year thereafter.

7. In the case of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a city member, the Returning Officer shall give notice in writing thereof to the Auckland City Council, and an election to fill the office so vacated shall be held not later than one month after the date when such notice is given.

8. It shall be the duty of the Mayor of the City of Auckland to cause a meeting of the Auckland City Council to be held for the purpose of conducting an election under this Order whenever necessary.

9. It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk of the Auckland City Council immediately following any election by the Auckland City Council under this Order to give notice of the result thereof in writing to the Returning Officer who shall notify the Minister of Internal Affairs accordingly.

10. Unless an extraordinary vacancy otherwise requires, the next election of local authority members shall take place by means of meetings to be held on some day in the month of February, 1951, and subsequent elections shall be held on some day in the same month of every third year thereafter.

11. In the case of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a local authority member, an election shall take place by means of meetings to be held on some day not later than one month after the giving of the notice hereinafter required to be given by the Returning Officer.

12. (a) In the month of December in every year immediately preceding the year in which an election of local authority members is to take place; and
    (b) So soon thereafter as he has knowledge of any extraordinary vacancy in the office of a local authority member;
    the Returning Officer shall give notice in writing of the necessary election to each of the local authorities and shall in such notice set out the number of votes exercisable by each of the local authorities in terms of subsection (2) of section 23 of the said Act.

13. Each of the local authorities may nominate candidates (not exceeding in number the number required to be elected) by resolution, a sealed copy of which, together with written consent of each nominee to his nomination, shall be lodged with the Returning Officer not later than the last day in January in every year in which an election of local authority members is to take place and not later than ten days after the Returning Officer has given notice of an election to fill an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a local authority member.

14. The Returning Officer shall thereupon prepare a list of nominated candidates and send a copy thereof to each of the local authorities which shall, at a meeting held on some day in the month of February in every year in which an election of local authority members is to take place or at a meeting held not later than one month after the Returning Officer has given notice of an election to fill an extraordinary vacancy, by resolution allocate its prescribed number of votes to each of two of the candidates where two candidates are required to be elected or to one of the candidates where only one candidate is required to be elected and lodge a sealed copy of such resolution with the Returning Officer within forty-eight hours after the passing of the resolution.

15. It shall be the duty of the Mayor or Chairman (as the case may be) of each local authority to cause meetings of such local authority to be held whenever necessary—
    (a) For the purpose of nominating candidates (such meetings to be held so that any nomination decided on can be lodged with the Returning Officer within the time specified by clause thirteen hereof);
    (b) For the purpose of conducting an election (such meetings to be held within the time specified by clause fourteen hereof.)

16. In the event of an equality of votes, the Returning Officer shall have a casting-vote, or two casting-votes if necessary, to enable the issue to be decided.

17. The Returning Officer shall give public notice of the result of the election and report such result to each local authority and to the Minister of Internal Affairs.

18. No failure on the part of any local authority to hold any meeting as hereby prescribed, or to carry at such meeting a resolution allocating its votes, or to lodge a sealed copy of such resolution with the Returning Officer within the time hereby prescribed, or otherwise to exercise its power of voting shall affect the validity of any election.

19. Every city member shall be deemed to be elected when the notice of his election given by the Town Clerk is received by the Returning Officer, and every local authority member shall be deemed to be elected when public notice of the result of the election is given by the Returning Officer.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 76/4/61).

Officers Authorized to Take and Receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section 301 of the Justices of the Peace, Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE
Kenneth McGregor Boswell, Manager, Money-order and Savings-bank Branch Chief Post Office, Auckland.
Muriel Agnes Kinane, Postmistress, Houhora.
Eliza Sarah Maud Fleming, Postmistress, Howard.
Douglas Anderson, Postmaster, Hunterville.
Finlay John Farquhar, Postmaster, Kotemaori.
Stanley Graham Heffernan, Chief Postmaster, Masterton.
Leonard Hans Ihle, Postmaster, Otorohanga.
Leonard Charles Simmonds, Postmaster, Te Aro.
Elizabeth Jordan, Postmistress, Whakapara.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of December, 1950.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.