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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 14

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT—ORARI GORGE SCENIC RESERVE

RESERVE 3811, situated in Block XII, Four Peaks Survey District, and Block V, Orari Survey District: Area, 197 acres 2 roods, more or less. (S.O. plan 1559L.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of March 1954.

E. B. CORBETT,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. H.O. 4/159; D.O. 8/23)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Pelorus Scenic Board

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby vests the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Blenheim, ex officio,
The Mayor of Blenheim, ex officio,
The Mayor of Nelson, ex officio,
The member of the Marlborough County Council representing the Pelorus Riding, ex officio,
The member of the Waimea County Council representing the Whangamoa Riding, ex officio,
The President, Marlborough Automobile Association, ex officio,
The President, Nelson Automobile Association, ex officio,
The Conservator of Forests for the Nelson Conservancy, ex officio,
The Member for the Electoral District of Marlborough, ex officio,
The Member for the Electoral District of Nelson, ex officio,
Fergus Noble-Adams,
Alan Lester Jeffries-Bryant,
Raymond Victor Bythell,
William John Elvy,
Sidney Alfred Gibbs,
Arthur Wilbert Wastney, and
Geoffrey Cameron Wood,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Pelorus Scenic Board (herein referred to as the Board), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and 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 Wednesday, the 24th day of March 1954, at 11 a.m., at the caretaker’s cottage, Pelorus Bridge, 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 Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting is 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 nine members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.

6. 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 for such meeting.

7. 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.

8. The Board may, with the approval of the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation, make such rules as it deems necessary for the good conduct of the public frequenting the reserve, and may set apart areas for camping grounds or other purposes and may fix reasonable charges for the use thereof in accordance with a scale to be approved from time to time by the Minister.

9. The Board shall prepare and submit 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

10. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE

PELOROUS SCENIC RESERVE—MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of February 1954.

E. B. CORBETT,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. H.O. 4/354; D.O. 13/32)

Vesting the Control of Scenic and Historic Reserves in the Hundalee Scenic Reserves Board

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby vests the control of the reserves described in the Schedule hereto (being lands reserved under the said Act) for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act) in the undermentioned persons, namely:

The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Blenheim, ex officio,
The Chairman, Kaikoura County Council, ex officio,
The President, Canterbury Automobile Association, ex officio,
The President, Marlborough Automobile Association, ex officio,
The Officer in Charge, Ministry of Works, Kaikoura, ex officio,
Arthur Ernest Brockett,
William Reynolds Carey,
Patrick Curran,
Montague Frederick Foate,
Geoffrey Ernest Gray,
John McLean Reid, and
Robert Lanktree Withers,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Hundalee Scenic Reserves Board (herein referred to as the Board), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and 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 Wednesday, the 24th day of February 1954, at 11 o’clock a.m., in the Cottage, Goose Bay, Kaikoura, 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 Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting is 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 six members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at the meeting.