APRIL 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1403

REGULATION.

RESPECTING LOAN TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything to the contrary contained in the regulations heretofore made under the said Act, the term of any loan granted to a local authority may be twenty years, and the principal and interest of any loan for such term shall be payable by half-yearly instalments in accordance with the table in the Schedule hereto.

Schedule.

Term: 20 years. Interest: 3¾ per Cent.

TABLE OF HALF-YEARLY INSTALMENTS for every One Hundred Pounds of the Loan.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Reserves in the Ohakune Borough Council.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of April, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been duly set apart as sites for municipal buildings: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said reserves in the Ohakune Borough Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserves described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Ohakune Borough, in trust, as sites for municipal buildings.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods, more or less, being Sections 4 and 7, Block XI, Town of Ohakune. Bounded towards the north-west by Awatea Street, towards the north-east by Sections 3 and 8 of said Block XI, towards the south-east by Miro Street, and towards the south-west by Sections 5 and 6 of said block; as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1911/1625, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section 6, Block XI, Town of Ohakune. Bounded towards the north-west by Section 5 of Block XI aforesaid, towards the north-east by Section 7 of said block, towards the south-east by Miro Street, and towards the south-west by Titiroa Street; as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1911/1625, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Special Regulations as to killing Native Game on Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations with respect to the killing of native game on Lake Ellesmere, in the Canterbury Acclimatization District, and do hereby revoke the regulations made with reference to the same matter on the second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

REGULATIONS.

1. No device or structure other than a hut made of scrub or rushes, or a mud-hole, or a mimi shall be used from or out of which native game may be taken or killed on or near Lake Ellesmere, in the Canterbury Acclimatization District.

2. A mud-hole for the purposes of these regulations shall be constructed solely by means of the excavation of the soil, and no timber, metal, or other material shall be used in the construction of such mud-hole.

3. No such hut, mud-hole, or mimi as is authorized by Regulation 1 hereof shall be used in any part of the said lake in which the water is more than 24 in. in depth.

4. Notwithstanding the preceding regulations, a licensee may, for the purpose of taking or killing native game, use a boat concealed among the vegetation growing along or near the margin of the said lake, or may use such boat for the purpose or recovering native game that has been shot; provided that boats used in pursuance of this regulation shall not be dressed or covered in any way.

5. No live birds of any species shall be used as decoys on or near the said lake, nor shall more than twenty-five decoys be used at any one time, whether by one or several licensees, within an area of less than 100 yards square.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Regulations as to Shooting Season for Opossums.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations