MAR. 12.]

Wanganui Borough, and it is necessary that the apportionment of representation of the City of Wanganui on the Wanganui Hospital Board should therefore be revised:

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 and authorities conferred upon him by the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, doth hereby determine that the number of representatives of the City of Wanganui on the Wanganui Hospital Board shall be four, and the date of the first election of an additional representative for the City of Wanganui shall be the date of the next ordinary general election of Borough Councils.

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

Authorizing the Thames Valley Electric-power Board to construct Electric Works.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of March, 1925.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section forty-nine of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, as amended by section seventeen of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, 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 authorize the Thames Valley Electric-power Board to erect electric lines as shown on plan marked P.W.D. 61475, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and such further lines as may from time to time be required in the Borough of Waihi.

CONDITIONS.

1. No electric lines shall be used for the distribution of electrical energy until the Thames Valley Electric-power Board has obtained a license for such purpose in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911.
2. Any conditions inserted in such license shall be strictly complied with by such Board.
3. Such Board shall forward for the approval of the Minister of Public Works such further plans and particulars as the Minister of Public Works may from time to time require.
4. The Board shall not, without the consent in writing of the Minister of Public Works, erect any electric lines along the routes of the Government main trunk transmission-lines.
5. The works hereby authorized shall be constructed so as to comply with the regulations made under section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, dated the 9th day of October, 1922, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th day of the same month, or any regulations made in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor, which regulations shall be deemed to be incorporated herein.
6. The Board shall substantially complete the works hereby authorized within a period of three years from the date of this license, or within such further time as the Minister may allow in the event of the work being delayed by strikes, lock-outs, breakdowns, or other unavoidable causes not due to any neglect by the Board.

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

Authorizing the Exchange of a Reserve in Mangaweka Township, Wellington Land District, for other Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of March, 1925.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the land described in the First Schedule hereto has been duly set apart as a reserve for municipal purposes: And whereas it is expedient that the said land should be exchanged for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, which the Governor-General deems of equal value and more suitable for the purposes of the reserve:

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 exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section twelve of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that the land described in the First Schedule hereto may be exchanged for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF RESERVE AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.
SECTION 86, Block X, Mangaweka Township, Wellington Land District : Area, 1 rood.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.
SECTION 91, Block X, Mangaweka Township, Wellington Land District : Area, 1 rood.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Constituting the Mangakowhai Rabbit District.-Notice No. Ag. 2478.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of March, 1925.
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 "Mangakowhai 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 Waitomo County bounded by a line commencing at a point on the Mairoa Road where the north-western corner of the block called Kinohaku East No. 3D No. 3G bounds on the said road, thence on the west by the said Mairoa Road in a southerly direction to the junction of the said road with the Awakino-Te Kuiti Road; thence on the south by the said Awakino-Te Kuiti Road in an easterly direction to the south-western corner of the block called Kaingapipi No. 2; thence in a south-easterly direction by the south-western boundary of the block called Kaingapipi No. 11 to the Mokau River; thence generally on the south and the south-east by the Mokau River to the point where the said river crosses the eastern boundary of the block called Maraetaua No. 9c; thence on the east in a northerly direction by the said eastern boundary of the said block called Maraetaua No. 9c to the Awakino-Te Kuiti Road; thence on the east in a northerly direction by the said Awakino-Te Kuiti Road to the north-eastern boundary of the block called Maraetaua No. 10; thence on the north-east in a north-westerly direction by the north-eastern boundary of the said block called Maraetaua No. 10; thence on the west in a southerly direction by the western boundary of the said block called Maraetaua No. 10; thence on the north in a westerly direction by the northern boundary of the block called Maraetaua No. 9c; thence on the west in a southerly direction by the western boundary of the said block called Maraetaua No. 9c; thence on the north generally in a westerly direction by the northern boundaries of Sections 10, 11,