Jan. 18] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 45

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Strath Taieri Soldiers’ Memorial Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of January, 1951

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for a site for a war memorial:

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,—

Francis Mortimer Howell, the elder,
Leslie Theodore Brenssell,
Andrew Carruthers, the elder,
Murdo Alexander Matheson,
John Edward James, the elder,
Albert Ernest Macdonald, and
Robert William Findlater,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Strath Taieri Soldiers’ Memorial 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 Monday, the 15th day of January, 1951, at 8 o’clock p.m. at the office of Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Company, Ltd., Middlemarch, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business at such time and 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 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 four 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.

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SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 1 rood 30·3 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 2, Block V, Township of Middlemarch, being part of Section 71, Block IX, Strath Taieri Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by a public road, 306·3 links; towards the south-east by Lot 3, 213·3 links; towards the south-west by Lot 10, 269·2 links; towards the north-west by a public road, 102·7 links, to the point of commencement; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3915, 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. 22/3915; D.O. 8/79.)

Appointment of Members of Waterfront Industry Commission

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the Waterfront Industry Emergency Regulations, 1946, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Arthur Ernest Bockett, of Wellington,

to be Chairman of the Waterfront Industry Commission; and

John Evelyn Broad, of Wellington (nominated by the New Zealand Waterside Employers’ Association Industrial Association of Employers); and

Roger James O’Donnell, of Wellington (nominated by the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers),

to be members of the Commission, all the aforesaid appointments to be for a term of two years commencing on the 1st day of January, 1951.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of December, 1950.

W. SULLIVAN, Minister of Labour.

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Officer 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 Percy Howard Woods being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of First Sub-collector of Customs at Auckland, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of January, 1951.

F. W. DOIDGE, for Minister of Justice.

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Officer 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 Neil Gustofson being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Accountant, H.M.N.Z. Dockyard at Auckland, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of January, 1951.

F. W. DOIDGE, for Minister of Justice.

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Polling-places for the Brooklyn Electoral District Appointed

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Electoral Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be the polling-places in the said Electoral District of Brooklyn.

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SCHEDULE

Brooklyn Electoral District—

Adelaide Road, St. James’ Hall.
Aro Street, St. Mary of the Angels School.
Arthur Street, Empire Hall.
Brooklyn, Harrison Street, Community Centre Hall.
Brooklyn, Ohiro Road, Baptist Church Hall.
Brooklyn, Washington Avenue, Public School (principal).
Buckle Street, Mt. Cook Public School.
Hankey Street, Technical College.
Ohiro Road, Central Park Hospital.
Tasman Street, Boys’ Institute Hall.
Vivian Street, St. John Ambulance Hall.
Vogeltown, Short Street Store.
Westland Road, Winter Show Building.
Willis Street, Dental Clinic.

As witness the hand of His Excellency, the Governor-General, this 16th day of January, 1951.

T. CLIFTON WEBB,
Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.