APRIL 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 953

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £5,400
by the Devonport Borough Council and prescribing the Con-
ditions thereof.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of
March, 1934.

Present :

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

WHEREAS the Devonport Borough Council (hereinafter
called “the said local authority”), being desirous
of raising the sum of five thousand four hundred pounds
(£5,400) by a loan to be known as “Water Purification Works
Loan, 1934” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the
purpose of refunding to the General Account of the said local
authority, pursuant to section nineteen of the Local Legislation
Act, 1933, the moneys advanced thereout on account of the
cost of the construction of a purification plant for the improve-
ment of the potability of the water drawn from Lake Pupuke
for supply to the inhabitants of the Boroughs of Devonport
and Takapuna, has complied with the provisions of the
Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter
called “the said Act”), and it is expedient that the precedent
consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by
the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loan :

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred on him by section eleven of the said
Act, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act,
1932 (No. 2), and of all other powers and authorities enabling
him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the raising by the
said local authority of the said loan up to the amount of
£5,400, and in giving such consent doth hereby determine
as follows :—

1. The term for which the said loan or any part thereof
   may be raised shall not exceed eighteen (18) years.

2. The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the
   said loan or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce
   to the lender or lenders a rate exceeding four pounds two
   shillings and sixpence (£4 2s. 6d.) per centum per annum.

3. The said loan shall be repaid by annual instalments of
   principal of not less than three hundred pounds (£300) during
   the first seventeen years of the currency of the loan and the
   balance in the last year.

4. No interest on the said loan and no instalment of
   principal shall be paid out of loan-money.

5. The rate that may be paid for brokerage, underwriting,
   and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said loan
   or any part thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-
   half per centum of any amount raised.

6. The payment of interest and repayment of principal
   in respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.

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

(T. 49/327/5.)

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Regulation abolishing Export Duty on Copra exported from the
Cook Islands other than Niue.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of
March, 1934.

Present :

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

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth
day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen,
and published in the Gazette of the eleventh day of July,
one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, regulations were
made under the Cook Islands Act, 1915, prescribing a duty
to be paid on all copra exported from the Cook Islands :

And whereas by Order in Council dated the eleventh day of
March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, the rate
of duty on copra exported from any of the Cook Islands, other
than Niue, was fixed for a period ending on the thirty-first day
of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, at ten
shillings a ton, and thereafter at twenty shillings a ton :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers conferred on him by the said Cook Islands Act,
1915, and of every other power and authority enabling him in
this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
prescribe that during the period commencing on the first day
of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, and
ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine
hundred and thirty-five (both dates inclusive), the duty on
copra exported from any of the Cook Islands, other than Niue,
shall be abolished, and thereafter shall be at the rate of twenty
shillings a ton.

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

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Regulations under the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, relating to
the Destruction of Rabbits in the Te Akau North Rabbit
District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3179.)

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 26th day
of March, 1934.

Present :

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

PURSUANT to the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, His
Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby
make the following regulations relating to the destruction of
rabbits in the Te Akau North Rabbit District, and doth hereby
declare that the regulations hereby made shall come into force
on the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the
Gazette.

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R E G U L A T I O N S.

1. In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context,—
   “Board” means the Te Akau North Rabbit Board
   established under the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928 :
   “Inspector” means the person for the time being authorized
   to act as Rabbit Inspector to the Board :
   “Owner” shall have the meaning ascribed to the word
   “owner” in section 2 of the said Act :
   “Notice” means a notice to destroy rabbits on private
   land issued by the Inspector pursuant to section 6 of
   the said Act.

2. Every owner on whom a notice is served shall carry out
   or cause to be carried out to the satisfaction of the Inspector
   an effective poisoning over all infested portions of the land
   to which such notice refers, and shall, immediately after such
   poisoning, take or cause to be taken all reasonable steps to
   fill in all burrows on such land, and forthwith after the filling
   in of such burrows shall, to the satisfaction of the Inspector,
   fumigate or cause to be fumigated all fresh burrows and re-
   opened burrows.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of Regulation 5 hereof
   all trapping, shooting, hunting, or dogging of rabbits shall,
   not later than seven days after the service of any notice
   served after the gazetting of these regulations, cease on all
   land in respect of which notice has been served ; and there-
   after for a period of three months no owner of any such land
   nor any other person shall trap, shoot, hunt, or dog, or permit
   or suffer to be trapped, shot, hunted, or dogged, any rabbits
   on such land except with the written permission of the Board
   and subject to the conditions specified therein.

4. Notwithstanding the provisions of Regulation 2 hereof
   the Inspector may, in respect of any land to which any of the
   said provisions are not conveniently applicable, authorize
   in writing signed by him the employment of any other method
   or methods of rabbit-destruction ; and compliance with the
   method or methods specified in any such authority shall be
   deemed a compliance with these regulations.

5. The Board may in the months of January or February in
   any year publicly notify, by notice published twice in some
   one or more newspapers circulating in the Te Akau North
   Rabbit District, that all trapping, shooting, hunting, or
   dogging of rabbits within the said district is prohibited for a
   period of three months from a date to be specified in such
   notice (being a date not earlier than seven days after the first
   publication of such notice), and, except with the written
   permission of the Board and subject to the conditions specified
   therein, no owner nor any other person shall during the
   period so specified trap, shoot, hunt, or dog, or permit to be
   trapped, shot, hunted, or dogged, any rabbits within the said
   district.

6. Every person committing a breach of these regulations
   shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10.

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