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(2) In this regulation a day shall be deemed to be a period of twenty-four hours, commencing at midnight.

(3) The allowances prescribed by these regulations shall be in addition to actual and reasonable expenses of locomotion necessarily incurred by any member while engaged on the business of the Board.

3. (1) All allowances that have heretofore been paid to members of the Board, at rates not exceeding 25s. and 10s. respectively, for the occasions set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) respectively of subclause (1) of clause 2 of these regulations are hereby validated.

(2) If at any time since the passing of the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 4), and before the commencement of these regulations, any member of the Board has been so engaged on the business of the Board that he would have been entitled to an allowance in accordance with paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subclause (1) of clause 2 of these regulations if these regulations had been then in force, but has not received such allowance, he may be paid an allowance at the rate of 25s. or the rate of 10s. as the case may require.

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

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Constituting the East Waikato Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3006.)

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of December, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section thirty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on petition in that behalf signed by a majority of the persons qualified to be enrolled on the ratepayers’ list of any proposed district, constitute and declare any area of land of not less than one thousand acres a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act:

And whereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section thirty of the said Act, a petition has been received praying that the area of land described in the Schedule hereto be constituted and declared a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act, and it is deemed expedient to give effect to the prayer of the petitioners accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, 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 constitute by the specific name of the “East Waikato Rabbit District,” and declare that area of land defined in the Schedule hereto to be a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act, and doth hereby further declare that the basis on which the Board to be established for the said district shall first levy its general rate shall be on the basis of the acreage of the rateable property in the said district.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, in the Matamata County, bounded, commencing at a point in Block XVI, Cambridge Survey District, where the eastern boundary of Lot 6 (Gorton Estate) on plan No. 3300, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, meets the right bank of the Waikato River; thence in a north-westerly direction along the boundary of Lot 6 aforesaid to the Cambridge-Tirau Road; thence in a north-easterly direction generally along the Cambridge-Tirau Road, the Hinuera Valley Road, Totman’s Road, to and across the Auckland-Rotorua Railway line, the Matamata-Tirau Road, and the Okoroire Hot Springs Road to the Oraka Stream; thence down that stream and up the Waihou River to a point in line with the northern boundary of the Rangitanuku No. 1A Block; thence along the northern boundary of the Rangitanuku No. 1A Block, the western and southern boundaries of Section 52, Block XI, Tapapa Survey District (Selwyn Settlement), to the old Te Aroha Road; thence along that road and the old Kaimai Road to its intersection by the eastern boundary of the Tapapa Survey District; thence in a southerly direction generally along the eastern boundary of the Tapapa, Patatere North and Patatere South Survey Districts, to the Mokaihaha Stream; thence in a south-westerly direction generally following the northern boundary of the Tokoroa Rabbit District, down the Mokaihaha and the Ngutuwerā Streams to the north-western corner of the Te Ranga No. 2 Block; thence along the western boundary of the Te Ranga No. 2 Block to the Putaruru-Taupo Road; thence along that road and the Lichfield-Waotu Road to the north-eastern boundary of the Waotu South No. 14 Block; thence along the eastern boundary of that block, the south-western boundaries of the Waotu South No. 14 and No. 9 Blocks, and the western and northern boundaries of Matanuku No. 3 Block to the Waikato River; thence down the right bank of the Waikato River to the point of commencement.

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

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Warrant authorizing the Main Highways Board to construct a New Bridge over the Clutha River at Balclutha on the Dunedin-Invercargill Main Highway (together with Approaches thereto), and apportioning the Cost.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by section one hundred and thirty-five of the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand do hereby authorize the Main Highways Board to construct the bridge (together with approaches thereto) described in the Schedule hereto; and I do also declare that the cost thereof, less such contribution as may be made thereto by the Government of New Zealand or the Main Highways Board, shall be borne by the Balclutha Borough Council, the Bruce County Council, and the Clutha County Council in the following proportions—viz., the Balclutha Borough Council shall pay thirty-seven per centum, the Bruce County Council shall pay thirty-three per centum, and the Clutha County Council shall pay thirty per centum of such cost respectively; and I do further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Balclutha Borough Council, the Bruce County Council, and the Clutha County Council shall be paid from time to time out of the funds of the said Councils within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Main Highways Board, and all such payments shall be made to the credit of the Public Account, and bank receipts sent to the Secretary, Main Highways Board at Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge in the Otago Land District over the Clutha River at Balclutha on the Dunedin-Invercargill Main Highway (together with approaches thereto). As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 79446, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of December, 1931.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/17/101/9.)

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Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Mrs. Mary Emma Rennie, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, at Allanton, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand, this 14th day of December, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

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Appointment of Child Welfare Officer under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

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Education Department,
Wellington, 12th December, 1931.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Robert Masters, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint Miss Doris Mary Katherine Muir, Timaru, as a Child Welfare Officer for the purposes of the said Act.

R. MASTERS, Minister of Education.