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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 Southland Electric-power Board borrowing by way of bank overdraft pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection one of section seventy of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, for the financial year ending the thirty-first March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, a sum not exceeding eighty-five thousand pounds, inclusive of any sum now owing in respect of amounts heretofore borrowed pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of the said subsection one of section seventy.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Lower Hutt Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £5,000, authorized to be raised for the purpose of providing Relief Works for Unemployed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 8th day of August, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and fourteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, 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 or public body 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 Lower Hutt Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of five thousand pounds for the purpose of providing relief works for unemployed:

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section one hundred and fourteen, 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 Lower Hutt Borough Council in respect of the said sum of five thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Lower Hutt Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Revoking Orders in Council vesting the Management of the Wharf at Waitangi, Chatham Islands, in Trustees, making Regulations and Fixing Dues with respect to the Wharf.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of August, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by divers Orders in Council, as set forth in the Schedule hereto, the management of the wharf at Waitangi, Chatham Islands, was vested in certain trustees for the inhabitants of the district, regulations were made with respect to, and dues were prescribed for, the use of the said wharf:

And whereas it is desirable that the said Orders in Council should be revoked, and that the rights and powers thereby conferred should be resumed by the Governor-General:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section one hundred and eighty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Orders in Council set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth order and declare that this revocation shall have force and effect on the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

SCHEDULE.

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

Regulations under the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1920, relating to the Destruction of Rabbits in the Waipipi Rabbit District.—Notice No. Ag. 2665.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of August, 1927.

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 Waipipi Rabbit Board, and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall take effect as from the date of 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 six 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.

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