Feb. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 421

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 land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for tramway and motor-omnibus purposes.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land permitted to be taken: 39 perches.
Being portion of Allotment 7 of Section 16, Suburbs of Auckland.

Situated in Block VIII, Rangitoto Survey District (Auckland R.D.), (City of Auckland). (S.O. 27531.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 86690, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 51/1803.)

Constituting the Pongaroa Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3166.)

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 12th day of February, 1934.

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 “Pongaroa 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.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, bounded by a line commencing at the northernmost corner of Section 27, Block XV, Makuri Survey District; thence south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary of said Section 27 to and across Range Road; thence northerly along Range Road to the north-western corner of Section 25, Block XV aforesaid; thence along the north-eastern boundary of said Section 25 to its north-eastern corner; thence along the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of Section 19, Block VIII, Mount Cerberus Survey District, to the junction of Cross Road and Pongaroa Road; thence to and along the southern side of Pongaroa Road to its junction with the Alfredton-Weber Road at Pongaroa Township; thence across the said Alfredton-Weber Road to and by the southern side of the Aohanga-Gorge Road to the Pongaroa Stream; thence down that stream and the Aohanga River to the sea; thence south-westerly along the sea-coast to the Mataikona River; thence north-westerly along the Akitio County boundary as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1905, page 2763, to the stock road along the summit of the Puketoi Range; thence along that road to the northernmost corner of Section 27, Block XV, Makuri Survey District aforesaid, the point of commencement.

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

Consenting to stopping Portion of a Road in Block III, Onewhero Survey District, Franklin County.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1934.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, 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 Franklin County Council stopping the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be stopped: 1 acre 1 rood 25 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Lot 1, D.P. 17387, being part Allotment 44, Parish of Pukekohe.

Situated in Block III, Onewhero Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 27321.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 86383, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

(P.W. 34/3364.)

Consenting to Stopping Roads in Blocks II, V, and VI, Opaheke Survey District, and Block XII, Wairoa Survey District, Franklin County.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 12th day of February, 1934.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1928, 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 Franklin County Council stopping the roads described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Allotment 120 ..
Opaheke Parish. (S.O. 27359.) | VI
V and VI | Opaheke
,, | P.W.D. 86384
,, | Green.
,, |
| 1 2 8 | Part Allotment 93 ..
Hunua Parish. (S.O. 27361.)
(Auckland R.D.) | XII
II | Wairoa
Opaheke | P.W.D. 86385
,, | ,,
,, |

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

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

(P.W. 34/3364.)

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