APRIL 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1097

Changing the Purpose of Reserves in Christchurch and Hawkins Survey Districts, Canterbury Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto were reserved for ferry purposes, being a purpose within Class I of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908:

And whereas it is expedient that such lands shall be appropriated for river-conservation purposes, being purposes within the said Class I:

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 the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that the said lands shall, from and after the date hereof, be appropriated for river-conservation purposes under Class I of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

RESERVE 95, Block III, Christchurch Survey District: Area, 1 rood.

Also Reserve 179, Block IV, Hawkins Survey District: Area, 200 acres.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Constituting the Mairoa Rabbit District.—Notice No. Ag. 2489.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th 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 “Mairoa 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Waitomo County commencing at the south-eastern corner of Section 6, Block IV, Maungamangero Survey District; thence in a northerly direction on the east by the eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section to the Arapae Road; thence in an easterly and northerly direction by the said Arapae Road to the junction of the said road with the Horopupu Road; thence on the north-east and north in a north-westerly and southerly direction by the said Horupupu Road to the point where the said road crosses the northern boundary of Kinohaku East No. 2 No. 25B 2; thence in a westerly direction on the north by the northern boundaries of the last-mentioned block and Kinohaku East No. 2 No. 21B 2; thence on the west in a southerly direction by the western boundary of the last-mentioned block to the northern boundary of Section 5,

Block IV, Maungamangero Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction on the north-east by the north-eastern boundaries of said Section 5 and Sections 4 and 3 of Block IV, Maungamangero Survey District, to the northern corner of the said Section 3; thence in a south-westerly direction on the north-west by the north-western boundary of the last-mentioned section; thence in a southerly direction generally on the west by the Mangarere Stream to the point where the north-western boundary of Section 5, Block III, Maungamangero Survey District, meets the said stream; thence in a south-westerly direction on the north-west by the said north-western boundary of the last-mentioned section to the Tawarau Road; thence in a southerly and easterly direction on the west and south by the said Tawarau Road to the point where the said road crosses the western boundary of Section 1, Block IV, Maungamangero Survey District; thence in a southerly, south-easterly, and southerly direction generally on the west, south-west, and west by the western, south-western, and western boundaries of the last-mentioned section; thence in a north-easterly direction on the south-east by the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 1 and 2, Block IV, Maungamangero Survey District, to the Mairoa Hauturu Road; thence in a southerly direction on the west by the said road to the southern boundary of Section 6, Block IV, Maungamangero Survey District; thence in an easterly direction on the south by the southern boundary of the last-mentioned section to the commencing-point.

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

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Consenting to stopping Road in Block XII, Matakohe Survey District, and Block VIII, Waipu Survey District, Otamatea County.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th 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 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 Otamatea County Council stopping the road described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

(Auckland R.D.) (S.O. 13107.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 61940, 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.