23 JAN.]

12. Persons desirous of obtaining a depasturing licence must lodge with the Secretary to the Committee at Waikaia an application in writing in the form or to the effect contained in the Second Schedule hereto, and deposit therewith the licence fee payable hereunder. If such application be refused, the fee shall be refunded to the applicant.

13. The Committee shall have power to refuse to grant any licence, also to limit the number of cattle which may be depastured under any licence. They shall also have power to specify the kind of cattle which may be depastured under any licence.

14. The number of cattle to be depastured shall be mentioned in the licence, and the rent to be paid in respect of such licence shall be at the rate of 5s. per annum for each head of cattle. Every such licence shall be in the form or to the effect contained in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall expire on the 31st day of December in every year, when such licence may be renewed in accordance with the foregoing provisions. Every licence shall be granted subject to the conditions herein set forth and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Committee.

15. The revenue derived from licence fees, or otherwise from the said commonage shall stand first charged with the cost of the destruction and prevention of the spreading of rabbits and gorse, broom, sweetbrier, and other noxious weeds, upon such commonage: such cost to be ascertained in such manner as may be fixed and determined by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

16. All cattle depastured must be branded or earmarked, and the brand or earmark and a description of the cattle must be registered with a ranger to be appointed by the Committee from one of their members. The ranger shall issue a certificate of registration in such form as he thinks fit. There shall be no fee for registration, but the fee for every such certificate shall be 2s. If the brand or earmark is registered with the application no further registration shall be necessary.

17. No cattle suffering from any disease shall be depastured upon, nor shall any pigs or goats be allowed to trespass or be at large upon or within the lands described in the First Schedule. No bull, ram, or stallion shall be depastured without the express permission in writing of the Chairman of the Committee. Any person or persons committing a breach of this provision shall be liable on the information of such Chairman, as for trespass of cattle on Crown lands; and the Chairman of the Committee for the time being is hereby empowered to lay any such information.

18. If any licensee shall at any time commit a breach of the conditions or terms upon which the licence is granted, as the same are herein set forth, the Chairman of the Committee may, on such evidence as he thinks fit, cancel and determine the licence held by such licensee, and the licensees shall have no claim to any refund or allowance in respect thereof.

19. No person shall remove beyond the boundary of the land described in the First Schedule any cattle other than those belonging to him, or for the removal of which he shall have authority from the Ranger, under a penalty not exceeding £5.

20. If any person shall depasture any cattle upon the lands described in the First Schedule without a licence, or otherwise (as to number or kind) than in accordance with a licence granted to him, every such person shall be liable, on the information of the Chairman of the Committee, as for trespass of cattle on Crown lands, and also to any penalty or disability imposed in respect of unlawful occupation of Crown land.

21. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to interfere with the powers or duties of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the district in which the lands described in the First Schedule are situated, whether under the Land Act 1948 or any other law or statute for the time being in force, and the said lands described in the First Schedule shall, subject to the special provisions herein-before made, remain and be Crown lands for the purpose of the said Act, and subject thereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT—SWITZERS COMMONAGE

SECTIONS 9, 15, 16, and 28, Block I, Waikaia Survey District : Total area, 334 acres 3 roods 5 perches, more or less. (S.O. plan 775.)

SECOND SCHEDULE

(1) FORM OF APPLICATION

PURSUANT to the regulations made under the Land Act 1948, I hereby apply for a licence to depasture [Here insert number] head of cattle on the Switzers Commonage, Southland County, such cattle being or to be forthwith branded as follows—viz., [Here insert description of stock, colour, sex, and brand of each]; and I agree to pay the prescribed fee for such licence in respect of each head of such cattle in accordance therewith.

Dated this day of

Name in full :
Address :
Occupation :

Received £

Secretary, Switzers Commonage Committee.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

79

(2) FORM OF LICENCE

PURSUANT to the regulations made under the Land Act 1948 [Name, address, and occupation of licensee], is hereby licensed to depasture on the Switzers Commonange, Southland County, the following : [Insert description of cattle as to number, brands, &c., in respect of great cattle] ; and has paid the sum of £ for issue of this licence, being at the rate of 5s. for each head of stock. This licence is to be in force until 31 December 19 , and is issued subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the said regulations.

Dated at this day of 19

Chairman of Committee, Switzers Commonage.

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

(L. and S. H.O. 26569; D.O. O.L.M. 1460)

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

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 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, 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 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,—

John Wentworth Campbell,
Henry Longfield Carpenter,
James William Awarua Donovan,
James Hickey,
Robert Granville Lawton,
Ian Connon McColl,
Elmer Jago Smith, and
Allan Harcourt Smith

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Omatane Public Hall Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board), with the powers and subject to the conditions herein-after contained, that is to say :—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Monday, the 19th day of January 1953, at 8 o'clock p.m., at the Omatane Public Hall, 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 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 Omatane 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 35, Block IV, Hautapu Survey District : Area, 1 rood, more or less. (S.O. plan 241/11.)

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

(L. and S. H.O. 22/3630/55; D.O. 8/1007)