Nov. 12] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1377

Kind or Description of Meat. Basic Price per Pound.
First Second Third
Grade. Grade. Grade.
s. d. s. d. s. d.
(c) Pork—
Leg .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 0 0 9½ ..
Loin .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 0 0 9½ ..
Chops .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 2 0 11 ..
Foreloin .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 8 ..
Corned hand .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 8½ 0 7 ..
Corned belly.. .. .. .. .. .. 0 10½ 0 8½ ..
(d) Lamb—
Forequarter .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 8 ..
Hindquarter .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 0 0 9½ ..
Legs .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 2 0 11 ..
Loin .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 1 0 10½ ..
Chops .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 2 0 11 ..

NOTE.—The basic prices fixed for lamb shall be operative only during the period 1st January to 31st August inclusive in any year.

(e) Hogget mutton .. .. The respective prices fixed for first-grade mutton, increased in every case by 1d. per pound.

(f) Mutton—
Legs—
Whole .. .. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Shank end, up to 6 lb. .. 0 11 0 9 0 7
Fillet end .. .. 0 10 0 8 0 6
Forequarters—
Whole .. .. 0 5 0 4 0 3
Shank end .. .. 0 5½ 0 4½ 0 3½
Shoulders .. .. 0 7 0 5½ 0 4
Necks and breast .. .. 0 5 0 4 0 3
Neck—
Best end .. .. 0 6½ 0 5 0 4
Scrag end .. .. 0 5 0 4 0 3
Loin .. .. 0 9 0 7 0 5½
Chops—
Middle loin .. .. 1 0 0 9½ 0 7
Rib .. .. 0 9 0 7 0 5½
Leg .. .. 0 11 0 9 0 7
Stewing .. .. 0 7 0 5½ 0 4
Flaps .. .. 0 2 0 1½ 0 1
Cutlets, trimmed .. .. 1 2 0 11 0 8½

SECOND SCHEDULE
Maximum Retail Prices of Meat
(Fixed by reference to Basic Prices)

Kind or Description of Meat Maximum Retail Price.
and Period of Sale.

Beef—
(a) For period 20th August to The appropriate basic price,
30th September (inclusive) increased by ½d. per pound.
in any year
(b) For period 1st October to The appropriate basic price.
19th August (inclusive) in
any year

Mutton (all kinds) and Pork—
(a) For period 1st July to 19th The appropriate basic price,
August (inclusive) in any increased by ½d. per pound.
year
(b) For period 20th August to The appropriate basic price,
31st October (inclusive) in increased by 1½d. per pound.
any year
(c) For period 1st November to The appropriate basic price,
30th November (inclusive) increased by 1d. per pound.
in any year
(d) For period 1st December to The appropriate basic price.
30th June (inclusive) in
any year

Veal—
(a) For period 1st July to 19th The appropriate basic price,
August (inclusive) in any increased by ½d. per pound.
year
(b) For period 20th August to The appropriate basic price,
31st October (inclusive) in increased by 1d. per pound.
any year
(c) For period 1st November to The appropriate basic price,
30th November (inclusive) increased by ½d. per pound.
in any year
(d) For period 1st December to The appropriate basic price.
30th June (inclusive) in
any year

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of November, 1943.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—

[l.s.] W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
H. L. WISE, Member.

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £33,000 by the Marlborough Hospital Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of November, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Marlborough Hospital Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”), being desirous of raising a loan of thirty-three thousand pounds (£33,000), to be known as “Building Extension Loan, 1943” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of completing the work for which the Building Extension Loan, 1941, was raised, and erecting new buildings and providing equipment, has 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 loan:

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 said local authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of thirty-three thousand pounds (£33,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed twenty-five (25) years.

(2) The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loan or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum.

(3) The said loan or any part thereof, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the term as determined in (1) above.

(4) The payment of such instalments shall be made in New Zealand, and no instalments 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 loan or any part thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.

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

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(T. 49/682/2.)

Constituting the Parnassus Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4050)

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
MICHAEL MYERS
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of November, 1943

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 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 “Parnassus 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 PARNASSUS RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Counties of Amuri and Cheviot, of the Canterbury Land District, containing 100,000 acres, more or less, bounded by a line commencing at a point on the intersection of the right bank of