JULY 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1939

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

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

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of July, 1942.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the local authorities enumerated in the Schedule hereto, being desirous of raising the respective loans stated opposite their names therein, have respectively 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 loans:

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 in New Zealand by the respective local authorities mentioned in the first column of the said Schedule of the respective loans set out in the second column of the said Schedule, up to the respective amounts specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) The terms for which the said loans or any parts thereof may be raised shall be the respective terms (in years) stated in the fourth column of the said Schedule.

(2) The rates of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loans or any parts thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding the respective rates per centum per annum stated in the fifth column of the said Schedule.

(3) The said loans or any parts thereof shall be repaid by the annual redemption of debentures of amounts not less than the respective amounts stated in the sixth column of the said Schedule.

(4) No amount payable as either interest or principal in respect of the said loans shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(5) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said respective loans or any parts 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 loans shall be made in New Zealand.

(7) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

SCHEDULE.

(T. 40/416/6.) C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Constituting the Winton Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3961.)

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

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of July, 1942.

Present:

The Right Hon. P. Fraser presiding 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 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 “Winton 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 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.

BOUNDARIES OF THE WINTON RABBIT DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the County of Southland, Southland Land District, containing by estimation 29,820 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the left bank of the Oreti or New River, the said point being in line with the northern boundary of Section 1, Block VII, Winton Hundred; thence in a northerly direction generally along the left bank of the said Oreti or New River to a point in line with a public road along the southern boundary of Section 86, Block LIX, Hokonui Survey District; thence in an easterly direction along the southern side of the said public road to and across the Invercargill—Kingston Road; thence in a north-easterly direction along the south-eastern side of the said Invercargill—Kingston Road to the Centre Bush—Otapiri Road; thence in an easterly direction generally along the southern side of the said Centre Bush—Otapiri Road to the south-western boundary of Section 326, Block LXI, Hokonui Survey District; thence in a south-easterly direction along the south-western boundary of the said Section 326 to a public road along the southern boundary thereof; thence in a southerly direction to and along the right bank of the Otapiri Stream to a point in line with the western side of a public road along the western boundary of Section 77, Block XIV, Forest Hill Hundred; thence in a southerly direction along the western side of the said road to and across Boggy Burn—Brown’s Road; thence in a southerly direction generally along the western side of the said Boggy Burn—Brown’s Road to the Winton—Hedgehope railway-line; thence in a westerly direction along the said Winton—Hedgehope railway-line to a point on the western boundary of Forest Hill Hundred; thence in a southerly direction along the western boundary of the said Forest Hill Hundred to the north-eastern corner of the Lochiel Rabbit District as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 23 of the 13th March, 1941, page 596; thence in a westerly direction along the northern boundary of the said Lochiel Rabbit District to the point of commencement: save and excepting out of the above-described area the Borough of Winton as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 72 of the 5th October, 1922, page 2700.

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