26 JUNE] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1085

Revoking the Reservation Over a Reserve in Block V, Otahuhu Survey District, North Auckland Land District

FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of June 1952

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to subsection (1) (b) of section 7 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby revokes the reservation for a site for public buildings of the General Government over the land described in the Schedule hereto ; and hereby declares that the said land, being vested in the Crown, is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act 1948.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area situated in Block V, Otahuhu Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 1·56 perches, more or less, being Lot 9 of Section 17, Town of Onehunga.

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

(L. and S. H.O. 6/3/163 ; D.O. 8/60)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand Branch), Incorporated.

FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of June 1952

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart as a reserve for a site for a Boy Scouts’ Hall: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in the Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand Branch), Incorporated :

Now, therefore, pursuant to section 17 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby vests the control of the said reserve in the Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand Branch), Incorporated.

SCHEDULE

SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 200, Block XV, Ohinemuri Survey District : Area, 1 rood, more or less. Subject to the reservations and conditions imposed by section 59 of the Land Act 1948. (S.O. plan 35132.)

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

(L. and S. H.O. 22/812/167 ; D.O. 14/88/1)

Lake Okataina Scenic Board Regulations

FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of June 1952

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to subsection (1) of section 17 of the Maori Purposes Act 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby revokes the Order in Council dated the 24th day of February 1943, making the Lake Okataina Scenic Board Regulations 1943, and in lieu thereof hereby makes the following regulations prescribing the practice and procedure of the Board of Control constituted to control the Lake Okataina Scenic Reserves.

REGULATIONS

1. These regulations may be cited as the Lake Okataina Scenic Board Regulations 1952.

2. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context, —
   “Board” means the Lake Okataina Scenic Board constituted pursuant to the provisions of section 17 (1) of the Maori Purposes Act 1931 :
   “Reserves” means the areas declared to have been ceded to the Crown by the Proclamation dated the 30th day of May 1931, and gazetted on the 4th day of June following :
   “Minister” means the Minister of the Crown for the time being charged with the administration of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

3. The first meeting of the Board shall be held in Rotorua on the date set out in the notice of appointment of the Board. Thereafter the Board shall meet for the transaction of business at such times and place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board.

4. The Board shall, at its first meeting, elect one of its members to be Chairman, who shall have an original as well as a casting vote, and who shall hold office until the election of his successor.

5. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting. No business other than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

6. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

8. 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.

9. 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, but subject always to the special provisions of section 17 of the Maori Purposes Act 1931, relating to the representation of the Ngati-Tarawhai Subtribe, to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

10. The Board shall control the reserves in accordance with the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, and of the regulations made thereunder.

11. The funds of the Board shall consist of all moneys received by it under or by virtue of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, or any other enactment dealing with the reserves, or in any other manner whatsoever in respect of the reserves under its control, and all such moneys shall forthwith after receipt by the treasurer or other proper officer of the Board be paid into such bank as the Board from time to time appoints to an account to be called “The Lake Okataina Scenic Board Account.”

12. The funds of the Board shall be applied in managing, administering, and improving the reserves under its control, and for no other purpose.

13. No moneys of the Board shall be disbursed except pursuant to a resolution passed at a meeting of the Board duly convened and held, but no bank or other person shall be concerned to inquire whether this requirement has been complied with or be affected by any notice of non-compliance therewith.

14. All cheques drawn on the bank account of the Board shall be signed, and all negotiable or transferable instruments requiring the endorsement of the Board shall be endorsed by two persons, one of whom shall be a member or officer of the Board, and the other of whom shall be a Field Officer or other officer of the Department of Lands and Survey from time to time appointed for the purpose by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the South Auckland Land District. In the case of moneys of the Board being kept in the Post-office Savings-bank, the account shall be in the name of the Board, and shall be operated upon by two trustees, one of whom shall be a member or officer of the Board, and the other of whom shall be a Field Officer or other officer of the Department of Lands and Survey from time to time appointed for the purpose by the said Commissioner.

15. Within twenty-eight days after the close of each financial year ending on the 31st day of March, the Board shall cause to be prepared and submitted to the Audit Office for audit a statement of assets and liabilities together with a statement of accounts (including a receipts and payments account) showing fully the financial position of the Board at the close of the year ; the accounts shall be audited by the Audit Office, which for that purpose shall have all the powers it has under the Public Revenues Act 1926, in respect of public moneys ; and the statements shall, when duly audited, be submitted to the Minister accompanied by a report as to the operations of the Board for the year.

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

(L. and S. H.O. 4/215/1 ; D.O. 13/132)

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street Off Fortress Road in the Town District of Otorohanga, Subject to a Condition as to the Building-line

FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of June 1952

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 31 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act 1948 and section 125 of the Public Works Act 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby authorizes the Otorohanga Town Board to lay-off the proposed street described in the Schedule hereto at a width for part of its length of less than 66 ft., but not less than 50 ft., subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land shown edged green on the plan marked P.W.D. 137369, referred to in the said Schedule, within a distance of 48 ft. from the centre-line of the said street.

SCHEDULE

THAT proposed street in the South Auckland Land District, Town District of Otorohanga, containing by admeasurement 30·8 perches, more or less, being part Otorohanga C No. 1 and C No. 2B No. 1 Blocks, situated in Block IV, Orahiri Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 137369, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 51/3568 ; D.O. 43/11)