26 Feb.]

Declaring Portion of Kuhawaea Road, in the Whakatane County, to be County Road

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of February 1953
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
PURSUANT to section 112 of the Public Works Act 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby orders and declares that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become county road.

SCHEDULE
ALL that portion of the Kuhawaea Road commencing at its junction with Haumea Road and proceeding thence in a north-easterly direction for a distance of approximately 55 chains and terminating at the northern corner of Section 17, Block X, Galatea Survey District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 139400, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red and marked A-B.
T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 35/445; D.O. 25/6)

Directing the Sale of Land in Block II, Halswell Survey District
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of February 1953
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
PURSUANT to the Public Works Act 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby directs the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the purpose for which it was acquired.

SCHEDULE
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land directed to be sold:
3 acres 1 rood 26 perches.
Being stopped road adjoining Rural Sections 1487 and 1593.
Situated in Block II, Halswell Survey District (Canterbury R.D.). (S.O. 8299.)
In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 133704, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.
T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 70/14/74/0; D.O. 50/14/74/0/1)

Member of Prisons Board Reappointed
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 11th day of February, 1953
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL WHEREAS by section 9 of the Crimes Amendment Act 1910, it is enacted that there shall be constituted a Board to be called 'the Prisons Board', consisting of not less than three nor more than seven persons:
And whereas by the said section it is provided that the members of the Board shall be appointed from time to time by the Governor-General in Council:
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 Crimes Amendment Act 1910, and of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint
Samuel Thompson Barnett, Esquire, Wellington,
to be a member of the Prisons Board constituted under the Crimes Amendment Act 1910, as aforesaid.
T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council,

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Members Appointed to Northbank Settlers' Public Hall Board
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of February 1953
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the 15th day of August 1951, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 16th day of that month, the control of the land described in the Schedule to that document, being a reserve for a site for a public hall, was vested in certain persons therein named, who were by the said Order in Council constituted a special Board, by the name of the Northbank Settlers' Public Hall Board, pursuant to section 17 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928 :
And whereas it is desirable that Albert James Howorth Davey, Morron Lea Hebberd, and Wilfred Edward Bown should be appointed members of the said Board in place of Thomas Reginald Black Fowler, Kenneth Gilchrist, and Ivor Jack Nicholls, resigned :
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 appoints the said
Albert James Howorth Davey,
Morron Lea Hebberd, and
Wilfred Edward Bown
to be members of the Northbank Settlers' Public Hall Board, constituted by the Order in Council dated the 15th August 1951, hereinbefore referred to, in place of the said Thomas Reginald Black Fowler, Kenneth Gilchrist, and Ivor Jack Nicholls, resigned.
T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 22/3630/61 ; D.O. 8/106)

Domain Board Appointed to Have Control of the Pongakawa Domain
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of February 1953
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
PURSUANT to section 44 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 appoints
Joseph Neale Blaymires,
Sydney James Hastie,
Albert Francis Kramer-Walter,
Edward Alexander Marsh,
Leslie William Milsom,
Gilbert Henry Robertson, and
Frederick Woolsey
to be the Pongakawa Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and hereby appoints Monday, the 16th day of March 1953, at 8 o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the Pongakawa Hall as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE
SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—PONGAKAWA DOMAIN
SECTION 7, Block II, Waihi South Survey District : Area, 51 acres 2 roods, more or less. (S.O. plan 2589A.)
T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 1/445 ; D.O. M.L. 67)

Authorizing the Exchange of a Reserve in Block XIII, Ashburton Survey District, Canterbury Land District, for Other Land
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of February 1953
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the land described in the First Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart for a gravel-pit, and is vested, in trust, in the Ashburton County Council for such purpose:
And whereas it is expedient that the said land should be exchanged for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, which the Governor-General deems of equal value and more suitable for the purposes of the reserve, and the Ashburton County Council has duly consented to such exchange :
Now, therefore, pursuant to section 8 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 declares that the land described in the First Schedule hereto may be exchanged for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto.