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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of a Horse-paddock in Block X, Rotoma Survey District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of March, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 the purposes of a horse-paddock, portion of such land being occupied by a building.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land permitted to be taken: 10 acres 0 roods 10 perches.

Being portion of Lot 1, Tautara Block, on D.P. 9614, situated in Block X, Rotoma Survey District. (S.O. 22582.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56193, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

J. W. BLACK,
Acting 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 19th day of March, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL, K.C.M.G., 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.

MATAMATA County Council, for metalling parts of the Putaruru-Tokoroa Ridings roads .. .. £10,000
Ashburton Borough Council, for extending high-pressure water-supply to the Hampstead area .. 7,000
Whakatane Borough Council, for the erection of two workers’ dwellings and purchase of land .. 2,000
Raupo Drainage Board, for liquidating Board’s antecedent liability .. .. .. .. 2,000
Pahiatua County Council, for erecting a workman’s cottage .. .. .. .. 700
Hobson County Council, for metalling roads at Hoanga .. .. .. .. 1,700
Taranaki County Council, for forming and metalling Upper Mangorei Road .. .. .. 300

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Constituting the Puketoi Rabbit District.—Notice No. 2253.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of March, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL, K.C.M.G., 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 Puketoi 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 parcel of land bounded by the Alfredton-Weber Road from the boundary with the Weber County in a southerly direction to the junction of the Huiaiti Road; thence in a north-westerly direction along the Huiaiti Road to the junction of the Pongaroa-Makuri Road; thence in a westerly direction along the Pongaroa-Makuri Road to the block-line between Blocks 11 and 15, Mount Cerberus Survey District, following the block-line to the Pahiatua County boundary; thence in a northerly direction along the Pahiatua County boundary to the Weber County boundary; thence in an easterly direction along the Weber County boundary to the starting-point.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portion of Koponui Road (Oparau Block Road Extension) in the Kawhia County to be a County Road.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of March, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Auckland Land District, Kawhia County, known as Koponui Road (Oparau Block Road Extension) commencing at a point 15 chains south of the northern boundary of Section 3, Block VII, Kawhia North Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly direction adjoining or passing through part Section 3, Block VII, and Section 7, and part Section 8, Block IV, Kawhia North Survey District, and terminating at a point 8 chains east of the boundary between Sections 5 and 6, Block IV, Kawhia North Survey District; being a distance of 2 miles 18 chains, more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56586, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

J. W. BLACK,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.