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 Leith Valley 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 83, Block V, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey
District: Area, 21.3 perches, more or less. Subject to the
reservations and conditions imposed by section 59 of the Land
Act 1948. (S.O. plan 11675.)

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/1028; D.O. 8/1/117)

Cancelling the Vesting of a Reserve in the Hauraki Plains
County Council

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of
July 1953
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is
a reserve for a public-pound site, and is vested, in
trust, in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the
County of Hauraki Plains for a public-pound site:
And whereas it is expedient that the vesting of the said
land as hereinbefore referred to should be cancelled, and the
Hauraki Plains County Council has duly consented to such
cancellation:
Now, therefore, pursuant to subsection (1) of section 10
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 cancels the vesting
in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County
of Hauraki Plains of the land described in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE
SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 4, Block VII, Kerepeehi Township: Area, 1 acre,
more or less.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 6/1/379A; D.O. 14/21)

Authorizing the Exchange of a Reserve in Titirangi Survey
District, North Auckland Land District, for Other Land

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of
July 1953.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the land described in the First Schedule hereto
has been duly set apart for a road reserve:
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 purpose of the reserve:
Now, therefore, pursuant to section 8 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 declares that the land described
in the First Schedule hereto may be exchanged for the land
described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE
DESCRIPTION OF RESERVE AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED
North Auckland Land District
Lot 264, Deposited Plan No. 17584, being part Allotment 10,
Section 13, Suburbs of Auckland, situated in Block IV,
Titirangi Survey District: Area, 1 rood 2.42 perches, more
or less. Part certificate of title, Volume 270, folio 130.

SECOND SCHEDULE
DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE
THEREFOR
North Auckland Land District
Lot 248, Deposited Plan No. 17584, being part Allotment 10,
Section 13, Suburbs of Auckland, situated in Block IV,
Titirangi Survey District: Area, 32.14 perches, more or less.
All certificate of title, Volume 1025, folio 37.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. andS. H.O. 25/675; D.O. M. 836)

Withdrawing Land From the Operation of the Kauri-gum
Industry Act 1908

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of
July 1953
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS by section 178 of the Land Act 1948 it is
enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in
Council, on the recommendation of the Land Settlement Board,
declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall,
from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject
to the Kauri-gum Industry Act 1908, and on and after the
date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall
become Crown land subject to the provisions of the Land
Act 1948:
And whereas the Land Settlement Board has recommended
that the portion of the Rotoroa Kauri-gum Reserve Extension
as described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the
operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act 1908, and it is
expedient to give effect to such recommendation:
Now, therefore, pursuant to section 178 of the Land
Act 1948, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby
orders and declares that the portion of the Rotoroa Kauri-
gum Reserve Extension, as described in the Schedule hereto,
shall, from the 10th day of August 1953, cease to be subject
to the Kauri-gum Industry Act 1908.

SCHEDULE
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT
PARTS Section 42 and Section 49, Block VII, Opoe Survey
District: Area, 92 acres and 22 perches, more or less. As
shown on the plan marked L. and S. 15/188, deposited in
the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at
Wellington, and thereon edged red. (S.O. plan 28343.)

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 15/188; D.O. 3/1155)

Setting Apart Maori Land as a Maori Reservation

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of
July 1953
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
PURSUANT to section 5 of the Maori Purposes Act 1937,
His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, hereby sets apart and reserves the Maori freehold
land described in the Schedule hereto as a Maori reservation
for the common use of the Maoris of the Ngati-Awa of Bay
of Plenty area as a fishing-reserve and flora and fauna reserve.

SCHEDULE
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT
Land. Approximate Area.
Rurima 28 2 00
As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan
marked M.A. 5/5/93, deposited in the Head Office of the
Department of Maori Affairs, Wellington, and thereon edged
red.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(M.A. 5/5/93)