Aug. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1927

perches, more or less, being part of Sections 5 and 6, Evans Bay District, and being parts Lot 3, D.P. 1587, and part Lot 6, D.P. 145. As the said area is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 53679, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring on Heathcote County Council Powers of Borough Councils with respect to Lighting and the Supply of Electricity.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the Lake Coleridge Water-power Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), that the Governor-General may by Order in Council confer on any local authority proposing to contract with His Majesty the King for the supply of electricity from the works established at Lake Coleridge by the Minister of Public Works such of the powers of Borough Councils with respect to lighting and the supply of electricity as he thinks fit, and with such restrictions, modifications, and conditions as he thinks fit, and thereupon that local authority shall have and may exercise the said powers accordingly pursuant to the tenor of the said Order in Council:

And whereas the Heathcote County Council proposes to contract as aforesaid with His Majesty the King, and it is expedient to confer upon the said County Council certain of the said powers of Borough Councils, subject to certain restrictions and conditions:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him in that behalf by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby confer on the said Heathcote County Council all the powers exercisable by a duly constituted Borough Council under sections two hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and eighty-three (as amended by section fifteen of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1921–22), two hundred and eighty-four, three hundred and thirty-nine, and subsection thirty-seven of section three hundred and fifty-four of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, subject to the restriction and condition that such powers shall be exercisable by the said Heathcote County Council only within the Mount Pleasant Riding of the County of Heathcote as existing on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Constituting the Umutoi Rabbit District.—Notice No. 2192.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section sixty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), as amended by the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1918, it is provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, on petition in that behalf from a majority of the ratepayers therein, constitute and declare any part of New Zealand defined in such Order in Council a district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

And whereas a petition in accordance with the provisions of the said Act has been received, asking that the lands described in the Schedule hereto be constituted and declared a rabbit district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act and its amendments, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute by the specific name of “the Umutoi Rabbit District” and declare that part of New Zealand defined in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act; and doth hereby further declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall in terms of the said Act consist of six members.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, comprising those parts of the Umutoi and Tamaki Ridings of the County of Pohangina bounded on the north by the northern boundary of Te Ohu Block, the eastern and northern boundaries of Sections 13 and 15, Block VII, Umutoi Survey District; thence following the Coal Creek south-west to the western boundary of Section 13, Block XII, Apiti Survey District; thence southward along the western boundaries of Sections 13 and 16, Block XII, Apiti Survey District, to the Makoura Road; thence eastward to the junction of the Makoura and Umutoi Roads; thence following the Pohangina Valley Road southward to the Pohangina River; thence along the Pohangina River and southern boundary of the Piripiri Block to the eastern boundary of the Pohangina County; thence northward along the county boundary to the northern boundary of the Te Ohu Block.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made under section twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council to enable the several local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the sums set out therein, and it is expedient that such consent should issue:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto, and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loans.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND Electric-power Board (for electric light) .. £50,000
Feilding Borough Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 9,545
Mangonui County Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 8,830
Stratford Borough Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 8,750
Hutt County Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 8,000
Gore Borough Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 7,000
Mount Eden Borough Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 5,700
Pahiatua County Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 3,100
Marton Borough Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 3,100
Winton Borough Council (for constructing, levelling, channelling, kerbing, and asphalting footpaths) .. 3,000
Whangaroa County Council (for repaying its antecedent liability) .. 2,815
Rangitikei County Council (for erecting workers’ dwellings, including purchase of land) .. 2,000
Inglewood County Council (for forming and metalling Otaroa Road) .. 1,500
Manurewa Town Board (for completing the metalling of roads and surfacing footpaths) .. 800
Thames Borough Council (for street-improvements and other purposes) .. 5,000
Mangonui County Council (for completing the works on the Kaitaia–Awanui Road and Mangonui Beach Road) .. 750
Inglewood County Council (for forming and metalling Hursthouse Road) .. 500
Inglewood County Council (for metalling Norfolk Road East) .. 250

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.