MAY 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1127

All that area of provisional State forest (Gazette 1925, page 1834), containing by admeasurement 514 acres, more or less, and being Section 12, Block XIV, Tutamoe Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 8/28, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (North Auckland plan S.O. 23123.)

Also all that area of Crown land containing by admeasurement 256 acres, more or less, and being Section 17, Block XI, Tutamoe Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 8/29, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (North Auckland plan S.O. 30561.)

Also all that area of Forest Reserve (Climatic) (Gazette 1902, page 1908), containing by admeasurement 1,371 acres 3 roods, more or less, being part of Section 12, Block XV, Tutamoe Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Towards the north by Sections 17, 12, and 11, Block XI, Tutamoe Survey District; towards the north-east by Section 23, Block XV, and Section 24, Block XVI, Tutamoe Survey District; towards the south generally by part of Kairara Block (permanent State forest, Gazette 1886, page 1304) and Section 22 (permanent State forest, Gazette 1929, page 2488), and Sections 9 and 8, Block XV, Tutamoe Survey District; and towards the west by Section 12, Block XIV, Tutamoe Survey District (provisional State forest, Gazette 1925, page 1834). As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 8/30, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (North Auckland plan S.O. 31007.)

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 18th day of May, 1940.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Commissioner of State Forests.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Crown Land set apart as a Permanent State Forest.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section eighteen of the Forests Act, 1921–22, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby set apart the Crown land described in the Schedule hereto as a permanent State forest.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, Ohura County, containing by admeasurement 532 acres, more or less, and being Section 11, Block VIII, Waro Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 51/3, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 17th day of May, 1940.

FRANK LANGSTONE,
Commissioner of State Forests.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring the Kawa West Rabbit District and the Mangaorongo Rabbit District to be united to form the Waipa Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 37437.)

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of May, 1940.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section thirty-two of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, the Governor-General may by Order in Council declare any two or more rabbit districts to be united and to form one rabbit district upon a petition from each of the districts proposed to be united signed by a majority of the ratepayers in each such district :

And whereas the Kawa West Rabbit District and the Mangaorongo Rabbit District have been constituted under and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act :

And whereas the boundaries of the said Kawa West Rabbit District are those set forth in the Schedule to an Order in Council made under the said Act on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and published in the Gazette on the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, at page 5, and the boundaries of the said Mangaorongo Rabbit District are those set forth in the Schedule to a like Order in Council made on the thirtieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and published in the Gazette on the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, at page 2064 :

And whereas petitions signed by a majority of the ratepayers in each of the said rabbit districts have been received praying that the said rabbit districts be united to form one rabbit district to be known as the “Waipa Rabbit District” :

And whereas it is deemed expedient to give effect to the prayer of the petitioners in each of the said rabbit districts 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 declare—

(1) That the said Kawa West Rabbit District and the said Mangaorongo Rabbit District so constituted as aforesaid shall be and are hereby united to form one rabbit district to be known as the “Waipa Rabbit District”; and

(2) That the basis on which the Board to be established for the said united district shall first levy its general rate shall be on the basis of the acreage of the rateable property in the said united district.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Open Seasons for the taking or killing of Opossums in the Otago and Southland Acclimatization Districts.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of May, 1940.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby order and declare that opossums may be taken or killed within the acclimatization districts specified in the Schedule hereto, except in any sanctuary other than a scenic reserve, subject in all cases to the general regulations made by Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, and to the special conditions specified in connection with each district.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 751.)

1. Season: Noon on 1st July to noon on 1st September, 1940 (inclusive).
2. License fee: £2.
3. Officers authorized to issue trappers’ licenses: Chief Postmaster, Dunedin; Postmasters, Milton, Clinton, Owaka, Tahakopa, Romahapa, Tapanui, Wyndham, and Waikaia.

SOUTHLAND ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

(As described in New Zealand Gazette No. 62 of 9th August, 1934, at page 2451.)

1. Season: Noon on 1st July to noon on 1st September, 1940 (inclusive).
2. License fee: £2.
3. Officers authorized to issue trappers’ licenses: Chief Postmaster, Invercargill; Postmasters, Awarua Plains, Balfour, Dipton, Gore, Lumsden, Mataura, Nightcaps, Orawia, Otatau, Riversdale, Riverton, Wairio, Winton, Woodlands, and Half-moon Bay.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(I.A. 49/1.)