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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 106

declare any area of land 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 whereas the said petition is signed by a majority of the
persons in the said area of land qualified to be enrolled on the
ratepayers’ list for the said proposed district, 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, acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby
constitute by the specific name of the “Edendale Rabbit
District” and declare that area of land defined in the Schedule
hereto to be a rabbit district under and for the purpose of
Part II of the said Act; and doth hereby further declare
that the basis on which the Board shall 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.

BOUNDARIES OF THE EDENDALE RABBIT DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the County of Southland, Southland Land
District, containing by estimation 39,630 acres, more or less,
and bounded by a line commencing at the confluence of the
Waimumu Stream and the Mataura River; thence in a
southerly direction along the right bank of the Mataura
River to a point in line with the north-eastern side of a public
road intersecting Lot 1 of 11, L.T.P. 172, Block XVI, Otera-
mika Hundred; thence in a north-westerly and westerly
direction along the north-eastern and northern side of the
said public road to Seaward Downs Bush Road; thence in a
northerly direction along the western boundary of the said
Seaward Downs Bush Road to and across Seaward Downs
Road; thence in a south-westerly and north-westerly direc-
tion along the said Seaward Downs Road and Horne’s Road to
Gorge Road; thence in a north-westerly direction along the
north-eastern side of the said Gorge Road to the southern
boundary of the Woodlands Rabbit District as described in
Gazette No. 6 of the 30th January, 1941, page 136; thence
in a north-easterly and northerly direction generally along
the boundary of the said Woodlands Rabbit District to
Swan’s Road; thence in a northerly direction along the east-
ern side of the said Swan’s Road to the Invercargill–Dunedin
Railway-line; thence in a north-easterly direction along the
said Invercargill–Dunedin Railway-line to a point in line
with the eastern side of Downs Road; thence in a north-
easterly direction by a right line to and along the eastern
side of the said Downs Road to a public road forming the
south-western side of Lot 62, L.T.P. 134, Block III, Lindhurst
Hundred; thence in a south-easterly direction along the
south-western side of the said public road to the Invercargill–
Dunedin Railway-line; thence in a north-easterly direction
along the said Invercargill–Dunedin Railway-line to the
right bank of the Waimumu Stream; thence in an easterly
direction generally along the right bank of the said Waimumu
Stream to the point of commencement, excepting out of the
above-described area the Town District of Edendale as
described in Gazette No. 55 of the 10th July, 1913, page 2111

T. R. AICKIN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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New Plymouth Harbour Board Loans Conversion Order, 1941.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of
December, 1941.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section nine of the Local
Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion
Act, 1932–33, that, with the precedent consent of the
Governor-General, given by Order in Council under section
thirteen of the said Act, after compliance with the provisions
of Part II of the Act, and subject to and in accordance with
the provisions of such Order in Council, any local authority
may issue new securities in conversion of any existing securities
to which the said Act applies :

And whereas by the said section thirteen it is further
provided that the Governor-General, by the Order in Council
giving his consent to the conversion of existing securities
by a local authority, may make such provisions as he thinks
fit with respect to all or any of the matters specified in the
said section, and that, subject to the provisions of the said
Act, every Order in Council under the said section shall have
the force of law as if enacted in the said Act, anything to
the contrary in any other Act or in any regulations made
under the said Act or any other Act notwithstanding :

And whereas it is provided by section twenty of the Finance
Act (No. 2), 1935, that, notwithstanding the limitation of
time prescribed by section fifteen of the said Local Authorities
Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33,
as extended by section twelve of the Local Authorities
Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Amendment
Act, 1934, an Order in Council may be issued at any time under
the aforesaid section thirteen of that Act making provision
for the conversion, with the consent of the holder, of any
securities whether or not they are existing securities to which
the said Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans
Conversion Act, 1932–33, applies :

And whereas the New Plymouth Harbour Board (being a
local authority within the meaning of the said Act) has
issued securities in respect of the loan specified in the First
Schedule hereto and such securities are held by the Australian
Mutual Provident Society :

And whereas the said local authority, being desirous, with
the consent of the holder of such securities, of issuing new
securities in conversion thereof, has complied with the
provisions of Part II of the said Act, and it is expedient that
the precedent consent of the Governor-General to such
conversion should be given as required by the said Act,
and that by this Order the provisions hereinafter set forth
should be made with respect to the matters specified in the
said section thirteen :

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 the said Act, and of all other powers
and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby
consent to the issue by the said local authority of new
securities in conversion of any existing securities to which
this Order applies, and with respect to such conversion doth
hereby make the following provisions :—

PRELIMINARY.

1. This Order may be cited as the New Plymouth Harbour
   Board Loans Conversion Order, 1941.

2. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, —

“The Act” means the Local Authorities Interest Reduction
and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33 :

“The date of conversion” means the date specified in
clause five of this Order ;

“Existing securities” means debentures or other securities
issued in respect of the loan specified in the First
Schedule hereto :

“The local authority” means the New Plymouth Harbour
Board :

“New securities” or “new debentures” means securities
or debentures issued in accordance with this Order
in conversion of existing securities to which this
Order applies.

3. This Order shall apply to such of the outstanding
   existing securities issued in respect of the loan specified in
   the First Schedule hereto as were on the date of conversion
   held by the Australian Mutual Provident Society.

4. (1) If the local authority so resolves by a resolution
   passed and confirmed as provided by subsection two of
   section nine of the Act, it may, with the consent of the
   holder of the existing securities to which this Order applies,
   and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this
   Order, issue new securities in conversion of such existing
   securities.

(2) The following provisions of this Order shall come into
force if such a resolution is passed and confirmed as aforesaid,
but not otherwise :

Provided that a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
local authority and published in the Gazette to the effect
that such a resolution has been duly passed and confirmed
shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein certified.

DATE OF CONVERSION.

5. The date from which the conversion of existing securities
   into new securities shall be deemed to take effect shall be
   the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and
   forty-one.

NOTICE TO HOLDER OF EXISTING SECURITIES.

6. The local authority shall cause a notice in the form
   numbered (1) in the Second Schedule hereto, together with
   a copy of this Order, to be forwarded by registered letter
   to the holder of the existing securities to which this Order
   applies.