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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

Open Season for the Taking or Killing of Opossums in the Wellington Acclimatization District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, and of all other powers and authorities 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 order and declare that opossums may be taken or killed within the Wellington Acclimatization District described in the Schedule hereto, except in any sanctuary or public domain, from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, to the eleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, both days inclusive, subject to the general regulations made by Order in Council dated the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill opossums within the said district shall be issued to any person on payment of the sum of two pounds ten shillings each; and the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, and the Postmasters at Featherston, Paraparaumu, Lower Hutt, Petone, Palmerston North, Upper Hutt, Levin, Taihape, Bull's, Marton, Masterton, Eketahuna, Carterton, Greytown, and Waikanae, are hereby appointed to sign and issue such licenses to take or kill opossums.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded on the north-west by the Wanganui and Waimarino Acclimatization Districts, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 12th day of March, 1925; on the north by the Rotorua Acclimatization District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 12th day of March, 1925; on the east by the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 12th day of March, 1925; on the south, south-east, and north-east by the Feilding Acclimatization District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 12th day of March, 1925; and again on the north-east by the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 12th day of March, 1925; from the mouth of the Wangaehu River to the mouth of the Waimata River; thence southerly, westerly, and northerly along the sea-coast to the mouth of the Wangaehu River, the place of commencement.

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

Open Season for the Taking or Killing of Opossums in the Westland Acclimatization District

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, and of all other powers and authorities 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 order and declare that opossums may be taken or killed within the Westland Acclimatization District described in the Schedule hereto, except in any sanctuary or public domain, from the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, both days inclusive, subject to the regulations made by Order in Council dated the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill opossums within the said district shall be issued to any person on payment of the sum of two pounds ten shillings each; and the Chief Postmaster at Hokitika, and the Postmasters at Kumara,

Ross, and Okarito, are hereby appointed to sign and issue such licenses to take or kill opossums.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Westland Land District bounded on the north by the Grey Acclimatization District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 12th day of March, 1925, from the mouth of the Taramakau River to the Hurunui Saddle in the Southern Alps; thence towards the south-west by a line along the summit of the said Southern Alps to Mount Aspiring; thence by a right line to the mouth of the Awarua River in Big Bay; thence north-easterly along the sea-coast to the mouth of the Taramakau River, the point of commencement.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Feilding Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £18,500, authorized to be raised for Improvement of Waterworks and Water-supply.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING 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 Feilding Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of eighteen thousand five hundred pounds for the improvement of waterworks and water-supply:

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 five and three-quarters 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 Feilding Borough Council in respect of the said loan of eighteen thousand five hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding five and three-quarters per centum per annum, and the said Feilding Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of eighteen thousand five hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Wairarapa Electric-power Board in respect of a Loan of £6,550, authorized to be raised for repairing Damage done to the Board’s Hydro-electric Works at Kourarau by Floods.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING 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