2898

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 83

Road in Town of Orua Extension No. 2, County of Franklin, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of November, 1923.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Franklin County Council on the eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, viz. :

“ That the provisions of section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, be not applied to the road through part of Allotment 101, Parish of Awitu, as shown on the plan of Orua Extension No. 2 ” ;

such road being described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road situated in the North Auckland Land District, Franklin County, Town of Orua Extension No. 2, adjoining or passing through part Allotment 101, Awitu Parish. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 58400, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured burnt sienna, edged red.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1920, relating to the Destruction of Rabbits in the Rangitoto Rabbit District. Notice No. Ag. 2326.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of November, 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 Rangitoto Rabbit Board, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall take effect from the date of the gazetting thereof.

REGULATIONS.

1. 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 of a kind approved of in writing by the Board, the fumigation of burrows, the filling-in of burrows :

Provided that if an owner is of opinion that none of the means prescribed is the most suitable in his case the Board may grant to such owner, upon written application being made to it in that behalf and subject to such conditions as it may deem desirable to impose, permission to hunt with dogs and shoot or to use 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 three 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.

Providing that Regulations under the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Amendment Act, 1920, shall take effect as By-laws within the Town District of Leeston.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of November, 1923.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the Minister of Internal Affairs, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by section fifteen of the Explosives and Dangerous Goods Amendment Act, 1920, did by notice dated the fifteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, require the Leeston Town Board, being a licensing authority under the said Act, to make by-laws under and for the purposes of the said Act :

And whereas the said Town Board has failed to make such by-laws :

And whereas by Order in Council made on the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and gazetted on the eighth day of December then instant (hereinafter termed the “ said Order in Council ”), regulations were made under the said Act and declared to take effect and be in force in the districts of the Town Boards set out in the First Schedule to the said Order in Council :

And whereas it is desirable to provide that the said regulations shall be in force in the district of the Leeston Town Board :

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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section fifteen aforesaid, doth hereby amend the said Order in Council by the addition to the First Schedule of the said Order in Council of the Leeston Town Board, and doth hereby declare that the regulations set forth in the Second Schedule to the said Order in Council shall take effect as by-laws and be in force as from the date of this Order in the district of the Leeston Town Board.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Eltham County Council in respect of a Loan of £395, authorized to be raised for repaying a Portion of its Antecedent Liability.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of November, 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 Eltham County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of three hundred and ninety-five pounds for repaying a portion of its antecedent liability :

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 rate of interest at which the money may be borrowed 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 rate of interest that may be paid by the Eltham County Council in respect of the said loan of three hundred and ninety-five pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Eltham County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of three hundred and ninety-five pounds accordingly.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.