16 FEBRUARY
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
217

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT—WESTLAND COUNTY
RESERVE 301, situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District, being all the land in certificate of title, Volume 2b, folio 1474: Area, 1 acre, more or less. S.O. Plan 3500.

Reserve 314, situated in Block XII, Waimea Survey District, New Zealand Gazette, 1892, p. 892: Area, 3 acres 2 roods, more or less. S.O. Plan 2055.

Reserve 366, situated in Block XI, Whataroa Survey District, being all the land in certificate of title, Volume 2c, folio 142: Area, 5 acres, more or less. S.O. Plan 728.

Lot 1 of Rural Section 1034, situated in Block IV, Mahinapua Survey District, and being all the land in deeds index, R.S. 1034, Westland Deeds Registry: Area, 1 acre, more or less. S.O. Plan 1705.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 7th day of February 1967.

[L.S.] DUNCAN MACINTYRE, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/1267; D.O. 2/6)

Declaring Land in Otago Land District, Vested in the Otago Education Board as a Site for a Public School, to be Vested in Her Majesty the Queen

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION

PURSUANT to subsection (6) of section 5 of the Education Lands Act 1949, I, Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto, being an area vested in the Otago Education Board as a site for a public school, shall be vested in Her Majesty the Queen, freed and discharged from every educational trust affecting the same, but subject to all leases, encumbrances, liens, or easements affecting the same at the date hereof.

SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT—CLUTHA COUNTY
PART Section 24, Block XIII, Rimu Survey District: Area, 2 roods and 5.9 perches, more or less. (S.O. Plan 12696.)

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 11th day of February 1967.

[L.S.] DUNCAN MACINTYRE, Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/1103; D.O. 8/1/235)

Crown Land Set Apart as Provisional State Forest Land

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION

PURSUANT to section 18 of the Forests Act 1949, I, Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby set apart the Crown land described in the Schedule hereto as provisional State forest land.

SCHEDULE

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT—NELSON CONSERVANCY
SECTION 16, Block I, Cloudy Bay Survey District: Area, 512 acres 1 rood 0 perches, more or less. S.O. Plan 4757. As shown on plan No. S. 21/1 deposited in the Head Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 3rd day of February 1967.

[L.S.] DUNCAN MACINTYRE, Minister of Forests.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(F.S. 6/4/15)

Commission to Inquire into Disaster at Strongman Mine

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to:

JOHN KENNETH PATTERSON, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate;
WILLIAM ELLIOTT, Mine Underviewer;
STANLEY ROBERT EYEINGTON, Mine Manager;
THOMAS McGHIE, M.B.E., Retired District Manager of State Coal Mines, and
ANTONIO VALLI PRENDIVILLE, President, United Mine Workers:

GREETING:

WHEREAS it is deemed expedient that an inquiry should be made into the cause of the disaster which occurred at the Strongman State Coal Mine, Greymouth, on the 19th day of January 1967, and matters incidental thereto:

Now, therefore, pursuant to the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, I, Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson, the Governor-General of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby appoint you, the said John Kenneth Patterson, William Elliott, Stanley Robert Eyeington, Thomas McGhie, and Antonio Valli Prendiville to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon—

(a) The cause of the disaster in the Strongman State Coal Mine on the 19th day of January 1967:
(b) The nature and character of the working and the efficiency of the management of the mine:
(c) The efficiency of the inspection of the mine by all or any of the persons who are responsible for that inspection:
(d) Suggestions for the prevention, as far as possible, of similar disasters and for the safe working of this and other mines in the future—

and generally to inquire into and report upon such other matters arising thereout as may come to your notice in the course of your inquiries and which you consider should be investigated in connection therewith, and to report upon any matters affecting the premises which you consider should be brought to the attention of the Government, and in particular, to report your opinion whether any additional legislation is necessary and the scope of the same, and whether the regulations included in the existing law provide for reasonable and proper safeguards against similar disasters, or whether any amendment or addition to them is required:

And with the like advice and consent I hereby appoint you, the said John Kenneth Patterson, to be the Chairman of the said Commission:

And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents, in accordance with the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, at such times and places as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as you think fit, and so that these presents shall continue in force and the inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place:

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, except to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport of any report so made or to be made by you or any evidence or information obtained by you in exercise of the powers hereby conferred on you except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public:

And it is hereby declared that the powers hereby conferred shall be exercisable notwithstanding the absence at any time of any one member of the Commission hereby appointed, so long as the Chairman and one other member are present and concur in the exercise of such powers:

And it is hereby further declared that you have liberty to report your proceedings and recommendations under this Commission from time to time if you shall judge it expedient so to do:

And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me in writing under your hands not later than the 1st day of August 1967 your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof.

Given in Executive Council under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 13th day of February 1967.

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

Consenting to Stopping Road in Block II, Kaitawa Survey District, Horowhenua County

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 25th day of January 1967

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. KEITH HOLYOAKE, C.H., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 149 of the Public Works Act 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby consents to the Horowhenua County Council stopping the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

ALL those pieces of road situated in Block II, Kaitawa Survey District, Wellington R.D., described as follows: