328 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 11

2 acres 2 roods 7·6 perches, more or less, being Ranfurly Road
West and Lot 20 and part Lots 6, 12, 18, and 19, on D.P.
2902, being part Allotment 45, Section 6, Suburbs of Auck-
land. As the said area is more particularly delineated on the
plan marked P.W.D. 56099, deposited in the office of the
Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington
Land District, and thereon bordered blue and red.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Constituting the Apiti-Pohangina Rabbit District.—Notice
No. 2243.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day
of January, 1923.
Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
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 Apiti-Pohangina
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 comprising the whole of the ridings of Mangaone
and Coal Creek ; the whole of the Pohangina Riding, with
the exception of the sections comprising the Pohangina
Township, namely, Sections 1 to 20 inclusive in each of
Blocks I to IX inclusive, and Sections 40 to 62 inclusive,
Block X ; the whole of the Mangapikopiko Riding, with the
exception of the sections comprising the Apiti Township,
namely, Sections 1 to 177 inclusive, Block IV, Sections 33
to 40 inclusive, Block VII, Section 1 to 3 inclusive, Block
VIII, Umutoi Survey District, being part of the Umutoi
Riding ; the whole being in the County of Pohangina.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to Land being taken for Street Purposes in the
City of Wellington.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day
of January, 1923.
Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the
Public Works Act, 1908, 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 land described in the
Schedule hereto being taken for street purposes, portion of
such land being occupied by buildings, a yard, and a garden.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land permitted to be taken :
1 acre 0 roods 23·7 perches.
Being portion of Section 6, Harbour District, and closed
road, situated in City of Wellington, Block XI, Belmont
Survey District (Harbour R.D.). (S.O. 1725.)
In the Wellington Land District ; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56127,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
edged red.
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 Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day
of January, 1923.
Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
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.
£
Tauranga Borough Council (for hydro-electric works
at McLaren's Falls) .. .. .. .. .. .. 90,000
Tauranga Borough Council (for acquiring allotments
for a recreation-ground) .. .. .. .. .. 3,250
Whangarei Borough Council (for streets improve-
ments) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 25,750
Whangarei Borough Council (for waterworks exten-
sion) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5,860
Whangarei Borough Council (for drainage) .. .. 1,000
Wairarapa Electric-power Board (for generation, dis-
tribution, and sale of electricity) .. .. .. 25,000
Northcote Borough Council (for carrying out a drain-
age scheme) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 21,500
Masterton Borough Council (for antecedent liability) 14,999
Cambridge Borough Council (for antecedent liability) 7,900
Wairoa Borough Council (for repaying electric-light
loan which matured 30th September, 1922) .. .. 6,000
Blenheim Borough Council (for gasworks) .. .. .. 5,000
Coromandel County Council (for antecedent liability) 4,550
Westport Borough Council (for antecedent liability).. 4,000
Dunedin City Council (for repaying a loan which
matured on 31st December, 1922) .. .. .. .. 3,600
Havelock Town Board (for repaying electric-light
loan, hospital expenditure, and to repay its ante-
cedent liability) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,120
Waiapu County Council (for erecting workers' dwel-
lings and acquiring land for same) .. .. .. 5,000
Raupo Drainage Board (for purchasing a Priestman
dredge) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,500
Franklin County Council (for metalling roads in the
" Hilltops Road S.R.A.") .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,000
Rangiora County Council (for paying the Council's
proportion of the cost of constructing the Cam
River Bridge at Kaiapoi) .. .. .. .. .. 1,000
Hobson County Council (for metalling roads in the
Maungaru Riding) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,000
Blenheim Borough Council (for erecting a footbridge
over Omaka River) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,000
Picton Borough Council (for the repayment of loans
as authorized by section 110 of the Reserves and
other Lands Disposal, &c., Act, 1922) .. .. .. 8,621
Tauranga County Council (for purchasing and con-
structing new road access to Rangiuru Railway-
station) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 750
Whakatane Borough Council (for surface drainage).. 400
Hawke's Bay County Council (for supplying certain
ratepayers with water) .. .. .. .. .. .. 800
Stratford County Council (for deviating, forming, and
metalling the Ahuroa Road West) .. .. .. .. 280
Waitomo County Council (for forming, culverting,
and metalling Wilson's Road) .. .. .. .. .. 300
Patea County Council (for reforming, widening, and
metalling the Ahuroa Road) .. .. .. .. .. 200
Whangamomona County Council (for metalling por-
tions of the Parorangi Road) .. .. .. .. .. 100

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