Constituting Hastings United Urban Fire District

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 26th day of May 1953
Present:
THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS, pursuant to sections 18 and 21 of the Fire Services Act 1949, the local authorities whose districts or part of whose districts are included in the Hastings Urban Fire District, the Havelock North Urban Fire District, and the Haumoana Secondary Urban Fire District made application for the abolition of the said Fire Districts and for the constitution of the area comprising the said Fire Districts, together with a further portion of the County of Hawke's Bay, as a united urban fire district:
And whereas, pursuant to the said section 18, the Fire Service Council has certified that the appropriate standards for a united urban fire district have been complied with:
And whereas, pursuant to section 24 of the Local Government Commission Act 1946, the said applications were referred to the Local Government Commission:
And whereas, pursuant to the Local Government Commission Act 1946, the Local Government Commission has recommended that action be taken pursuant to the Fire Services Act 1949 to give effect to the said applications:
Now, therefore, pursuant to the Fire Services Act 1949, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council hereby orders and declares:

1. That the Hastings Urban Fire District, the Havelock North Urban Fire District, and the Haumoana Secondary Urban Fire District are hereby abolished.
2. That the areas described in the Schedule hereto are hereby constituted a united urban fire district by the name of the Hastings United Urban Fire District.
3. That the number of members to be elected to represent the Councils of the Boroughs of Hastings and Havelock North and the County of Hawke's Bay on the Board of the District hereby constituted shall be three, who shall be elected in the following manner:
   (a) Two members by resolution of the Hastings Borough Council.
   (b) One member by resolution of either the Hawke's Bay County Council or the Havelock North Borough Council in accordance with the following procedure, viz.:
   (i) At the first election of members of the Fire Board the Hawke's Bay County Council shall by resolution elect one member of the Board from candidates nominated by the County Council and the Havelock North Borough Council.
   (ii) At the triennial election of members of the Fire Board to be held in the month of February 1954 and at every alternate triennial election held thereafter the Havelock North Borough Council shall by resolution elect one member of the Board from candidates nominated as aforesaid.
   (iii) At the triennial election of members of the Fire Board to be held in the month of February 1957 and at every alternate triennial election held thereafter the Hawke's Bay County Council shall by resolution elect one member of the Board from candidates nominated as aforesaid.
   (iv) In the event of any member elected under any of the foregoing provisions vacating office before the expiry of his term of office as a member of the Fire Board, the extraordinary vacancy so created shall be filled by resolution of the Council which elected that member, pursuant to section 27 of the said Act.
4. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 53 of the said Act, the amount to be paid by the uniting local authorities to the Fire Board of the District hereby constituted in the first year of the Board's operations shall, as between each of the said uniting local authorities, be in the following proportions:
   (a) Hastings Borough Council Ten-fifteenths.
   (b) Havelock North Borough Council Two-fifteenths.
   (c) Hawke's Bay County Council Three-fifteenths.
   SCHEDULE
   HASTINGS UNITED URBAN FIRE DISTRICT
   All that area comprising the Borough of Hastings.
   Also all that area comprising the Borough of Havelock North.
   Also all that portion of Hawke's Bay County bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the middle of the Ngaruroro River with the middle of the Napier-Hastings via Fernhill Main Highway; thence proceeding south-westerly along the middle of that highway to the Fernhill-Takapau Main Highway; thence south-westerly along the middle of that highway to the Roys Hill-Bridge Pa Road; thence south-easterly along the middle of that road to and across its intersection with the Hastings-Maraekakaho Main Highway;

thence south-easterly along the middle of a public road, being a continuation of the Roys Hill-Bridge Pa Road to Rosser Road; thence south-westerly along the middle of that road to a point in line with the eastern boundary of Lot 7, Deposited Plan 2016; thence southerly to and along that boundary, the northern and eastern boundaries of Lot 8, Deposited Plan 3794, to and across the Turamoe Road to the eastern boundary of Lot 18, Deposited Plan 3794; thence southerly along that boundary to the north-eastern boundary of Lot 1, Deposited Plan 3616; thence south-easterly, south-westerly, and south-easterly again, along the northern and eastern boundaries of the aforesaid Lot 1, produced to a point in the middle of Anderson Road; thence south-westerly along the middle of that road to a point in line with the eastern boundary of part Lot 2, Deposited Plan 3616; thence south-easterly to and along that boundary produced to a point in the middle of the Napier-Palmerston North State Highway; thence north-easterly along that highway to a public road forming the northern boundary of Subdivisions 9, 10, 11, and 12 of Whenuakura Block; thence north-easterly along the middle of that road to Mutiny Road; thence southerly along the middle of Mutiny Road to Middle Road; thence north-easterly along the centre-line of Middle Road to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary of Lot 3, Deposited Plan 7429; thence south-easterly and southerly to and along that boundary, the eastern boundary of part Lot 24, Deeds Plan 713, and the northern and eastern boundaries of Lot 5, Deeds Plan 713, produced to a point in the middle of the Tukituki River; thence north-easterly along the middle of that river to a point in line with the northern boundary of Lot 1, Deeds Plan 485; thence north-easterly to and along that boundary to the north-western corner of part Lot 1, Deeds Plan 697; thence north-easterly, southerly, easterly, northerly, and north-easterly again, along the northern boundary of that plan, the northern boundary of Lot 2, Deposited Plan 6582, produced to the middle of a public road; thence north-easterly along the middle of that road to the middle of the Clifton Road; thence south-easterly along the middle of that road to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary of Lot 2, Deeds Plan 915; thence southerly and easterly to and along that boundary to the high-water mark of the ocean; thence generally northerly along the high-water mark of the ocean to the middle of the mouth of the Ngaruroro River; thence up the middle of that river to the Napier-Hastings via Fernhill Main Highway, being the point of commencement, excluding therefrom the Boroughs of Hastings and Havelock North.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 76/31/20)

Abolishing the Warden's Court at Coromandel
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
PURSUANT to the powers and authorities conferred on me by section 9 of the Mining Act 1926, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby abolish the Warden's Court at Coromandel in the Hauraki Mining District as from the 31st day of May 1953.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 19th day of May 1953.
J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Mines.
(Mines: 2/26/14)

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 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
Keith Bell Longmore, Director, Marketing Division, Department of Agriculture, Wellington.
George Phillip Bray, Divisional Executive Officer, Marketing Division, Department of Agriculture, Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of May, 1953.
T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.