Oct. 11. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2573

payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee three calendar months' previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the licensee in New Zealand.

10. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which the said stable may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on his part.

11. In case the licensee shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them ;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said stable for a period of thirty days ;
    (3.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought under the operation of any Act for the time being in force relating to bankruptcy ; or
    (4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these conditions,—
    then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege thereby conferred, may be revoked and determined by the Governor-General in Council, without any notice to the licensee or other proceeding whatsoever ; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined ; and upon such revocation the Minister may cause the said stable to be removed, and may recover the cost incurred by any such removal from the licensee.

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

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Recreation Reserves in Canterbury Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of October, 1923.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserves for recreation in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act ; and such reserves shall hereafter form part of the Ellesmere Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain by the Ellesmere Domain Board.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing 95 acres 2 roods 15 perches, more or less, being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 300, folio 16, situated in Block IX, Southbridge Survey District, comprising Rural Section 9308, and being Lot 1 on deposited plan No. 4439, Canterbury Registry.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing 10 acres, more or less, being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 45, folio 54, and being part of Rural Section No. 18319, Ellesmere District.

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

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Regulations under the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1920, relating to the Destruction of Rabbits in the Maungakawa Rabbit District.—Notice No. Ag. 2301.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of October, 1923.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1920, 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 make the following regulations relating to the destruction of rabbits in the district under the jurisdiction of the Maungakawa Rabbit Board, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall take effect from the date of the gazetting thereof.

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REGULATIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING any other means adopted by him, every owner of land on whom a notice to destroy rabbits is served in terms of section 6 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, shall adopt one or more of the following means of destroying rabbits—namely, the laying of poison, the fumigation of burrows, the filling-in of burrows :

Provided that if an owner is of opinion that none of the principal means prescribed is the most suitable in his case, he may apply to the Board for permission to use some other means, and the decision of the Board shall be final as to the means to be adopted.

2. Not later than seven days after the service of such notice on an owner of land all trapping on his land shall cease, and thereafter for a period of six months from the date of service of the notice the owner shall not, except with the written permission of the Board and subject to the conditions specified therein, trap rabbits or allow rabbits to be trapped on his land.

3. Every person committing a breach of these regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10.

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

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Prescribing the Term for which the Pukekohe Borough Council may borrow the Sum of £10,000, being a Further Part of a Loan of £84,000, authorized to be raised for Roading, Purchase of Quarry, Erecting Town Hall, Waterworks Electrical Extension, Drainage, &c., and also the Rate of Interest payable thereon.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 8th day of October, 1923.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments, it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council :

And whereas the Pukekohe Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of eighty-four thousand pounds for roading, purchase of quarry, erecting Town Hall, waterworks, electrical extensions, drainage, &c., for a term of ten years and at five and a quarter per centum interest, and is now desirous of borrowing ten thousand pounds, being a further part of the eighty-four thousand pounds, for an increased term, and at an increased rate of interest :

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven, and it is desired that the term for which the said ten thousand pounds may be borrowed be thirty-six and a half years and the rate of interest payable thereon be not exceeding six per centum per annum :

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 as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the term for which the Pukekohe Borough Council may borrow the said sum of ten thousand pounds shall be thirty-six and a half years, and the rate of interest payable thereon shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Pukekohe Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of ten thousand pounds on these terms.

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