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TABLE D

Amount of Principal and Interest Payable During Each Period of Six Months for Every £100 of Unpaid Purchase Money or Loan at 4½ per Centum Interest for a Period of Twenty-five Years

T. J. SHERRARD,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SWITZERS COMMONAGE

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of January 1953

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by section 184 of the Land Act 1948 (hereinafter called the said Act) it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for the due administration of the said Act, providing, among other things, for the care, management, and protection of Crown land :

And whereas regulations (herein referred to as “the said regulations”) were made on the 7th day of September 1925 by the Governor-General under the powers conferred by section 3 of the Land Act 1924 for the management of Switzers Commonage, and the said regulations were published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 17th day of September 1925, at page 2572 :

And whereas the said regulations still endure and are in force under the said Act :

And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said regulations, and to make in lieu thereof the regulations hereinafter contained :

Now, therefore, pursuant to the said Act, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby revokes the said regulations, and hereby makes the following regulations for the care, management, and protection of the Switzers Commonage described in the First Schedule to the following regulations, and hereby orders that such revocation shall take effect on the coming into force of the following regulations, and that the following regulations shall come into force on the day of the gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS

1. For the purpose of carrying out these regulations the following persons are appointed a committee for the care, management, and protection of the said commonage :

Harry Brosnan,

William Phillip Collins,

James Peter Hamer,

Aubrey Douglas Lee,

John Findlay Morrison Richards,

Ronald Frederick Rose, and

Louis Alexandra Stevenson

who shall be known as the Switzers Commonage Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Committee). The members of such Committee shall be eligible for reappointment.

2. On the first Monday in February 1953, and at a similar date every three years thereafter, an election shall take place from among the holders of licences to depasture cattle or stock upon the said commonage (hereinafter termed licensed holders) for the purpose of electing seven persons to be members of the Committee. Such election shall be conducted in such manner as the Committee may decide. The names of the persons so elected shall be submitted to His Excellency the Governor-General for approval, and, if so approved, they shall take the place of the Committee hereby or theretofore appointed. The members of the Committee herein appointed shall hold office until such approval.

3. The Committee shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month, at 8 o'clock p.m., at Waikaia, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Committee. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the 2nd day of February 1953.

4. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Committee : 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.

5. Any three of the said Committee shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

6. The members of the Committee shall, at their first meeting and thereafter at the first Committee meeting to be held after the approval of any new Committee under clause 2 hereof, 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. At such meeting a Secretary shall also be appointed by the Committee.

7. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

8. If, by retirement, resignation, death, or incapacity, or otherwise, the office of the Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

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

10. Any member may resign by writing under his hand delivered to the Chairman or Secretary ; and in such case, or in the case of his death, incapacity, or absence without the leave of the Committee from three consecutive ordinary meetings, his office shall become vacant. The Committee may, by writing under the hands of the Chairman and Secretary, notify His Excellency the Governor-General of any vacancy, and submit the name of a person to fill the vacancy ; and, if approved by the Governor-General, such person shall thereupon become a member of the Committee.

11. Licence-holders may run cattle upon the lands described in the First Schedule upon the conditions mentioned in the depasturing licence to be obtained as hereinafter provided.

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