MAY 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1307

Cancelling the Reservation over a Reserve in the Wai-iti Survey District, Nelson Land District.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of May, 1935.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (b) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 cancel the reservation for public purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said land, being vested in the Crown, is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

Section 8, Block IX, Wai-iti Survey District: Area, 46 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 9/1146.)

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Opotiki, Gisborne Land District.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of May, 1935.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve duly set apart as an endowment in aid of the funds of the Borough of Opotiki:

And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the reservation over such land shall be changed to a reserve for police purposes:

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 exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (a) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that the purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from an endowment in aid of the funds of the Borough of Opotiki to a reserve for police purposes.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.

Allotments 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, and 329 of Section 1, Town of Opotiki: Area, 3 acres, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 5483.)

Constituting the Wairau Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3283.)

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of May, 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 “Wairau 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 of land in the Marlborough Land District, bounded by a line commencing at the north-east corner of Section 138, Erina Settlement, Block II, Avon Survey District; thence south-westerly by the bank of the Wairau River to the boundary of the Nelson-Marlborough Land District; thence southerly by that boundary to the south-west corner of Run 151 in Block VII, Raglan Survey District; thence easterly by a right line to Trig. Station H.B. on the boundary of Run 149a in Block X, Leatham Survey District, and by that boundary and the boundary of Run 149a to Trig. R.S. in Block XI, Leatham Survey District; thence southerly by the western boundary of Run 107 to the Main Range between the Awatere and Waipohoi Rivers; thence easterly by the said Main Range to the boundary of the Waipohoi Rabbit District defined by Order in Council made under the said Act on the 1st day of September, 1930, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 4th day of the same month, at page 2706; thence generally in a north-easterly direction by the boundaries of the said district to the Wairau River at the point of commencement.

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

Directing Sale of Railway Land near Abbotsford under the Public Works Act, 1928.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of May, 1935.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by the thirty-fifth section of the Public Works Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise, howsoever, for any public work, is not required for such public work, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions set forth in the said Act:

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 the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and direct the sale of the said land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land: 13 acres 2 roods 22·7 perches.

Portion of railway land (parts of Sections 19, 1 of 20, 30, 31, and 64, and closed road), Block VI, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District, Taieri County.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L.O. 3393, deposited in the office of the Government Railways Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

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

(L.O. 6901/70.)