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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 27

the land described in the Schedule hereto, being an area vested in the Canterbury Education Board as a site for a 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

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT-Waimate COUNTY Lot 1, D.P. 15907, situated in Block XVI, Waimate Survey District: area, 4046 square metres, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 548, folio 8, of the Canterbury Registry. Part Rural Section 9662, situated in Block XVI, Waimate Survey District: area, 8093 square metres, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume '153, folio 196, of the Canterbury Registry. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 5th day of March 1976.[L.S.] VENN YOUNG, Minister of Lands. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! (L. and S. H.O. 6/6/1226; D.O. 8/1/240)

Consenting to Land Being Taken for a Service Lane in Block IV, Thames Survey District, Thames-Coromandel District DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of March 1976 Present: THE HON. J. B. GORDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to 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 land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for a service lane.

SCHEDULE SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT ALL those pieces of land situated in Block IV, Thames Survey District, described as follows: Area m² Being 185 Part Lot '1, D.P. 36371; marked “G” on plan S.O. 47965. 217 Part Lots 428, 429, 430, and 431, Tapuaeonenuku Block; marked “M” on plan S.O. 47966. As shown on the plans marked as above mentioned and lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Hamilton. P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council. (P.W. 54/778/23; Hn. D.O. 43/23/0/16)

Union of Ohura Independent Town District and Taumarunui County DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 8th day of March 1976 Present: THE HON. J. B. GORDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to the Local Government Act 1974, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.

ORDER

1. This order shall come into force on 1 April 1976. 2. The districts of the independent Town District of Ohura (hereafter referred to as “the town district”) and the County of Taumarunui shall be united into one district. 3. The area of the town district shall be part of the West Riding of the County of Taumarunui. 4. The Ohura Town Council shall be dissolved. 5. The area of the town district shall be a community, having the name “Ohura Community”, as if it had been so constituted under Part VII of the Local Government Act 1974. 6. Until the 1977 triennial general election of councillors, the Ohura Community Council shall comprise the persons holding office as councillors of the Ohura Town Council on the day immediately preceding union; and the Chairman of the Ohura Community Council shall be the person who on that day was the Chairman of the Ohura Town Council.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

7. On the union of the town district with the County of Taumarunui: (a) All property, real or personal, belonging to the Corporation of the town district shall vest in the Corporation of the County of Taumarunui; (b) All functions, powers, rights and duties theretofore vested in or imposed upon the Ohura Town Council which are not inconsistent with the functions, powers, rights and duties of a county council under the Counties Act 1956, shall vest in and be imposed upon the Taumarunui County Council: (c) All rates or other money payable to the Ohura Town Council shall be due and payable to the Taumarunui County Council: (d) All actions, suits and proceedings pending by or against the Corporation of the town district may be carried on and prosecuted by or against the Corporation of the County of Taumarunui: (e) The duties, powers and functions of the Chairman and Town Clerk of the Ohura Town Council may be exercised by the Chairman and County Clerk respectively of the County of Taumarunui: (f) All the liabilities, contracts and engagements of the Ohura Town Council shall be liabilities, contracts and engagements of the Taumarunui County Council: (g) All bylaws in force in the town district at the time of the union which are applicable to the altered circumstances shall be bylaws of the county, and may be revoked or altered by the Taumarunui County Council, but until so revoked or altered every such bylaw shall remain in force in the area only in which it was in force prior to the union; and every bylaw which cannot be restricted to that area shall be deemed inapplicable, and all bylaws which are inapplicable to the altered circumstances shall be deemed to have been revoked by the union: (h) The valuation rolls, electors’ lists, electors’ rolls, and rate records in force in the County of Taumarunui and the town district shall continue in force in the County of Taumarunui until new valuation rolls, electors’ lists, electors’ rolls, and rate records are made for that County. 8. The Taumarunui County Council shall not be required forthwith to prepare a new district scheme for the whole of its district as provided by section 28B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1953. 9. Notwithstanding anything in this order: (a) The account balances of the Corporation of the town district shall become the balances of the Ohura Community Account; and (b) The special funds of the Corporation of the town district shall be retained and used in the area of the Ohura Community for the purposes for which they were raised. 10. For the purposes of the Local Authorities (Petroleum Tax) Act 1970 the County of Taumarunui shall be the successor of the town district. P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council. (I.A. 103/10/75)

Appointing a Member of the Christchurch-Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General PURSUANT to section 4 of the Christchurch-Lyttelton Road Tunnel Act 1956, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby appoints