And whereas it is expedient that such provision should be
revoked:

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 said Act, doth hereby revoke the
said Order in Council of the sixteenth day of March, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, in so far as it refers
to the combined district of the Egmont County and the
Opunake Town District, and doth hereby determine that
the number of representatives of such combined district shall
continue to be two as provided by the said Order in Council
of the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-three.

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

Consenting to stopping Portion of Road in Block IX,
Rangitoto Survey District, Tamaki Road District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day
of April, 1925.
Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all
other powers in anyway 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 Tamaki Road Board stopping the portion of road
described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be
stopped: 2 roods 39-1 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Lots 9 and 10 on D.P. 15709,
being subdivision of Allotments 19, 20, and 21, Tamaki
West Farms, situated in Block IX, Rangitoto Survey
District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 22841.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62201,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured green.

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

Consenting to stopping Portions of Road in Block VII,
Rangitaiki Upper Survey District, Whakatane County.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day
of April, 1925.
Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all
other powers in anyway 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 Whakatane County Council stopping the portions of
road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road permitted to be
stopped:
A. B. P. Adjoining or passing through
1 0 3·6 Section 86, Parish of Rangitaiki.
0 2 2·5 ,, 56, Matata Parish.

Situated in Block VII, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District
(Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 22502.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 61056,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured green.

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

Consenting to the Raising of £5,000, being a Further Part of
a Loan of £209,000 authorized to be raised by the Patangata
County Council on the Instalment System extending over a
Period of Thirty-six and a Half Years.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day
of April, 1925.
Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS section thirteen of the Finance Act, 1921,
provides that where any local authority, as defined
by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, has heretofore been or
shall hereafter be authorized to raise a loan, whether pursuant
to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise, and whether such loan
has been raised in part or not, such local authority may, with
the consent of the Governor-General in Council raise any part
of such loan upon terms of making the same, together with
interest thereon, repayable by instalments extending over
such period of years whether in excess of the period mentioned
in the poll taken on the proposal for such loan or not, and
payable at such time as may be fixed by such local authority,
and may permanently appropriate and pledge for the purpose
of securing such instalments any special rate already made or
hereafter to be made or any part of such special rate:

And whereas the Patangata County Council has been
authorized to borrow the sum of two hundred and nine
thousand pounds for the purpose of re-erecting and reconstructing all the bridges and culverts in the county, and
has been unable to raise the whole amount on the terms
specified:

And whereas application has been made by the County
Council for the consent of His Excellency the Governor-General in Council to the raising of five thousand pounds,
being a further part of the above-mentioned two hundred
and nine thousand pounds, on the instalment system extending
over a period of thirty-six and a half years:

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 Patangata County Council raising
the sum of five thousand pounds upon the terms of making
the same, together with interest thereon, repayable by instalments extending over a period of thirty-six and a half years,
and the said Patangata County Council is hereby authorized
to borrow the said sum of five thousand pounds on these
terms.

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

Constituting the Oparure Rabbit District.—Notice No. Ag. 2487.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day
of April, 1925.
Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL 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 “Oparure
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 in the Waitomo County commencing
at the north-western corner of the block called Kinohaku
East No. 2 No. 12B; thence in an easterly direction on the