1272 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 35

Offences.

24. Any person who shall commit a breach of any of the provisions hereof shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a penalty of £100.

Liability of Partners.

25. If two or more solicitors or other persons in partnership commit an offence under this Order each of those persons shall be severally guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty of £100.

Crown Solicitorship vacant.

26. If at any time the office of Crown Solicitor for the Territory of Western Samoa is vacant the powers and duties of the Crown Solicitor under this Order shall be exercised and performed by such person as the Administrator shall by Warrant under his hand appoint.

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SCHEDULE.

STATUTORY DECLARATION UNDER THE SAMOA LAW PRACTITIONERS ORDER, 1935.

I, , of , do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am a person authorized to audit trust accounts of solicitors.

2. That in accordance with the Samoa Law Practitioners Order, 1935, I have personally audited the trust accounts of , practising at , for the year ending the 31st day of March, 19 .

3. That the paper writing hereto annexed marked “A,” bearing date the day of , 19 , and signed by me is a true report of the result of the audit.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand entitled the Samoa Act, 1921.

Declared at , in Western Samoa, this day of , 19 , before me—

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Judge of the High Court of Western Samoa (or Collector of Customs of Western Samoa, or Medical Officer of Western Samoa, or Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, or otherwise, as the case may be).

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Constituting the Awatere Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3277.)

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GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of April, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 for 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 petition accordingly :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute, by the specific name of the “Awatere 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 parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing an area of 178,100 acres, more or less, bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-western boundary of Run 116 in Block I, Upcot Survey District; thence in a northerly direction along the Main Range between the Waihopai and Awatere Rivers to Pudding Hill in Block XI, Spray Survey District; thence in an easterly direction along the Main Range to the north-western corner of Block IX, Hodder Survey District; thence along the western boundary of Run 148 to the Omaka River; thence along the northern boundary of Blairich Freehold to the Awatere River; thence in a south-westerly direction by the Awatere River to Small Grazing-run 161, and by the south boundary of that run to the Jordan River; thence in a south-easterly direction by the eastern boundaries of Small Grazing-run 193 to a Trig. marked Ref. Whernside on the Chalk Range, in Block II, Whernside Survey District; thence in a westerly direction generally by the southern boundaries of Small Grazing-runs 193 and 194 and Pastoral Run 118 to the Totara Stream; thence by the eastern boundary of the Middlehurst Estate and the part of Run 120 occupied by the estate of W. B. Stevenson to the Tone River; thence in a northerly direction by the Tone River, the Awatere River, and Castle Creek to the point of commencement.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.