7. Until the said Council, to be elected at the first triennial
   election of members following the date of the union, takes
   office, the council of the said County shall comprise the
   members of the former Waipukurau County Council, and
   the members of the former Patangata County Council who
   were holding office on the date immediately prior to the
   date of union.

8. The system of rating in the said County shall be on
   the basis of land value and the said Council shall make
   and levy the general rate separately in each riding of the
   said County as if it had so resolved by special order
   pursuant to subsection (2) of section 110 of the Counties
   Act 1956.

9. Notwithstanding anything in clause 1 hereof, the said
   Council shall make and levy all rates in the ridings specified
   in clause 4 hereof for the whole year commencing on 1 April
   1974 and ending on 31 March 1975 and for the purpose
   of making and levying those rates and for this purpose
   only this order shall be deemed to have come into force
   on 1 April 1974.

10. For the purposes of the Local Authorities (Petroleum
    Tax) Act 1970, the following provisions shall apply:
    (a) The district of the said County shall be deemed always
    to have been a constituent district of the Hawke's
    Bay Tax Area.
    (b) The rate revenue of the said County for the previous
    financial year shall be the sum of the rate
    revenue for that period of the former Counties of
    Waipukurau and Patangata.

11. The cash balances and reserves of the former Counties
    of Waipukurau and Patangata shall become the cash
    balances and reserves of the said County and with the
    exception of plant account reserves shall be used only within
    the riding or other area in which they originated.

12. The transfer of any members of the staffs of the
    former Waipukurau and Patangata County Councils to the
    service of the said Council shall be deemed to be transfers
    of permanent employees within the meaning of section 4
    of the Local Authorities (Employment Protection) Act 1963,
    and the provisions of that Act shall, with any necessary
    modifications, apply accordingly.

13. So far as they are applicable and with the necessary
    modifications, the provisions of section 99A of the Land
    Transfer Act 1952, shall apply to the union herein effected.

14. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of
    section 10 of the Counties Act 1956, shall apply to the
    union of the Counties hereby effected as if the former
    Counties of Waipukurau and Patangata had been united
    under that Act.

P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 103/5/288)

Exempting Land in South Auckland Land District from the
Operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925

DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 171 of the Coal Mines Act 1925, I,
Sir Edward Denis Blundell, the Governor-General of New
Zealand, do hereby exempt the land described in the Schedule
hereto from the operation of Part III of the said Act.

SCHEDULE

SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—RAGLAN COUNTY
PART Sections 4 and 5, Block XIII, Rangiriri Survey District,
and part Allotment 136, Whangape Parish, being part land
on D.P. 20355 and Lots 3, 4, and 18, D.P. 21946, situated
in Block XIII, Rangiriri Survey District: area, 9.5187 hectares,
more or less, excepting thereout all coal, fireclay, and other
minerals contained in certificate of title 488/238. Balance
of certificate of title 639/264, subject to rights of way created
by transfers 213028 and 239801.

Part Allotment 43, Whangape Parish, situated in
Block XIII, Rangiriri Survey District: area, 9.3861 hectares,
more or less, excepting thereout all coal, fireclay, and other
minerals contained in certificate of title 579/189. All certificate
of title 579/192, limited as to parcels, subject to a right
of way created by conveyance No. 372354 (R515/38).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General this 14th day of May 1974.

F. M. COLMAN, Minister of Mines.
(Mines 11/29/3)

Port Conciliation Committee for the Port of Picton Appointed

PURSUANT to the Waterfront Industry Act 1953, the Minister
of Labour hereby appoints the following persons to be the
Port Conciliation Committee for the Port of Picton for the
term of 1 year expiring on the 31st day of May 1975.

Thomas Royden Harrison, Chairman;
John Vernon Fisher, Gerald Redmond Drummond and
Archibald Charles Welsh (nominated by the New Zealand
Port Employers' Association (Incorporated)); and
Frank Neville Burns, James Howat and Athol Francis
Norton (nominated by the Picton Waterfront Workers'
Industrial Union of Workers).

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of June 1974.

HUGH WATT, Minister of Labour.

Appointment of Chairman of the Legal Aid Appeal Authority

PURSUANT to section 6 of the Legal Aid Act 1969, His
Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Alfred William Yortt, Esquire,
Stipendiary Magistrate, of New Plymouth, to be Chairman
of the Legal Aid Appeal Authority for the remainder of
his present term.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of June 1974.

A. M. FINLAY, Minister of Justice.
(J. 21/2/76 (6))

Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court Appointed

PURSUANT to section 16 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953,
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint

Kenneth Gillanders Scott
to be the Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court on and
from the 24th day of June 1974.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of June 1974.

MATIU RATA, Minister of Maori Affairs.

Judge of the Maori Land Court Appointed

PURSUANT to section 16 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953,
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint

Edward Taihakurei Junior Durie
to be a Judge of the Maori Land Court on and from the
15th day of August 1974.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of June 1974.

MATIU RATA, Minister of Maori Affairs.

Chairman of the Public Service Appeal Board Appointed

PURSUANT to section 61 of the State Services Act 1962, the
Minister of State Services has appointed

Randal Dudley Poynton Heenan
of Wellington, retired public servant, to be the Chairman
of the Public Service Appeal Board for a term of 3 years
from the 1st day of June 1974.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of May 1974.

A. J. FAULKNER, for Minister of State Services.

Members of Architects' Investigation Committee Appointed

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint, in terms of section 38 of the Architects' Act 1963,

Raymond Warren Taylor, of Christchurch,
to be a member and Chairman of the Architects' Investigation
Committee, and

Rodney Fox Draffin, of Auckland, and Albert Graham
Kofoed, of Wellington.