21 May]

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 such meeting be 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.

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 Kyeburn 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

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 20, Block VIII, Maniatoto Survey District: Area,
1 acre, more or less. (S.O. plan 5577.)

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 1911/1470 ; D.O. 8/160)

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Mangatainoka Public
Hall Board

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 12th day of
May 1953
Present:
THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a
reserve duly set apart for a site for a public hall:
And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said
reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter
provided:
Now, therefore, pursuant to section 17 of the Public
Reserves and Domains 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 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,--
Bruce Brady,
Margaret Laura Brady,
Arthur Henry Eglinton,
Douglas Gunn,
Hazel Ida Holland,
George Allan Wilton Keast,
Robert Rankin,
Douglas Cyril Symonds, and
William James Tait,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board
by the name of the Mangatainoka Public Hall Board (here-
inafter 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
   Thursday, the 14th day of May 1953, at 8 o'clock p.m., at the
   Mangatainoka Public Hall, Mangatainoka, 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 such meeting be 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 five 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 (or her) 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.

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 Mangatainoka 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

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 55, Block IV, Mangahao Survey District: Area, 2
acres 3 roods 14 perches, more or less. (S.O. plan 12615.)

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 27714 ; D.O. 8/1128)

Exempting Land in the Auckland Land District from the
Operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by subsection (2) of section 171 of
the Coal Mines Act 1925 and of all other powers and
authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Lieutenant-General
Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General
of New Zealand, hereby declare that the land described in
the Schedule hereto shall be exempt from the operation of
Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925, and hereby further
declare that this notice shall take effect as from the date of
publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Auckland Land District containing
by admeasurement 34-2 perches, more or less, being Lot 8
on Deposited Plan No. 32232, being part of Allotments 87
and 275 of the Parish of Pepope and parts of the land
comprised in certificates of title, Volume 765, folio 52 and
Volume 833, folio 133 (Auckland Registry), excepting thereout
all mines, veins, beds, and seams of coal and fireclay and all
minerals whatsoever lying in upon or under the said land.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General this 9th day of May 1953.

W. SULLIVAN, Minister of Mines.
(Mines: 6/10/655)

Officers Authorized to Take and Receive Statutory
Declarations

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section
301 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1927, I,
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, 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

George Arthur Archibald, Senior Administration Officer,
State Advances Corporation, Invercargill.
Campbell Munro Sharp, Accountant, State Advances Cor-
poration, Invercargill.
Thomas Maxwell Cottrell, Resident Officer, State Advances
Corporation, Timaru.
Eric Robert Lavender, Clerk, State Advances Corporation,
Lower Hutt.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 15th day of May 1953.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.