Nov. 18] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1383

Block IV, Waitapu Survey District, and the boundary of the County
of Collingwood (Gazette, 1922, page 231); towards the south and west
generally by the boundary of the County of Collingwood aforesaid
to Trig. Station Gouland, Block VIII, Waingaro Survey District;
towards the west and south-west by the Gouland Downs Scenic
Reserve; and towards the north-west by Section 1 of Square 17,
Wakamarama and Pakawau Survey Districts: save and excepting
Section 135 of Square 14, Block VII, Aorere Survey District, and
Section 23, Block II, Waitapu Survey District, and all intersecting
public roads.

Also all that area containing 6,630 acres, more or less, being
ordinary provisional State forest, 6,350 acres (Gazette, 1920, page
926), and national-endowment provisional State forest, 280 acres
(Gazette, 1920, page 2114), situated in Blocks V, IX, X, XIII, and
XIV, Wakamarama Survey District, and Blocks II and VI, Kahurangi Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Towards
the north-east by Section 1 of Square 17, Wakamarama Survey
District; towards the south by Gouland Downs Scenic Reserve;
towards the south-west by the boundary of the County of Collingwood (Gazette, 1922, page 231), and the Kahurangi River; and
towards the north-west by Sections 2 and 1, Block II, Kahurangi
Survey District.

As the same are more particularly delineated on plan No. 98/4,
deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington,
and thereon bordered red.

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 11th day of November, 1943.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Commissioner of State Forests.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

(S.F. 7/4.)

Altering and Redefining the Boundaries of the Pongakawa Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4052)

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

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of
November, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by section thirty-one of the Rabbit Nuisance
Act, 1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General, at the
request of the Board of any rabbit district, may, by Order in
Council, alter and redefine the boundaries of its district:

And whereas the district known as the Pongakawa Rabbit
District has been constituted under and for the purposes of the
said Act:

And whereas the Board of the said district has, pursuant to
the said section thirty-one of the said Act, requested that the
boundaries of its district be altered and redefined by including an
additional area therein:

And whereas the consent of a majority of the persons in such
additional area qualified to be enrolled on the ratepayers' list for
the said district has been given to the inclusion of such additional
area in the said district:

And whereas it is deemed expedient to alter and redefine the
boundaries of the said district 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—

(1) Alter and redefine the boundaries of the said district so
constituted as aforesaid:

(2) Declare that the boundaries of the said district shall be
those set forth in the Schedule hereto; and, further,

(3) Declare that this Order in Council shall come into force
on the day following publication hereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE

BOUNDARIES OF THE PONGAKAWA RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Whakatane, Tauranga, and Rotorua Counties
of approximately 460,000 acres, bounded by a line commencing at
the confluence of the Rangitaiki River and the sea and running in
a southerly direction generally along the western bank of that river
to the Rotorua-Waikaremoana Road near Murupara; thence
north-westerly generally along the north-east side of that road to
and across a public road, and along the north-west side of the last-
mentioned public road to the south boundary of Karatia Part 3B 2A 2
Block; thence along the south and north-western boundaries of
that block, the western boundaries of Karatia Part 3B 2B, 3A, Part
3B 2B, 3B 1D, 3B 1C, 3B 1B, 3B 1A, 2A, 2B 1, 2B 2, 2B 3, 1B 2B, Part
1B 2A, 1B 1, Part 1B 2A, 1A 2, and 1A 1 Blocks, Section 1, Block V,
Galatea Survey District, Rangipo, and Rangipo No. 1 Blocks to the
Ngatamawahine Stream; thence westerly generally along that
stream to a point due south of the south-east corner of Section 2,
Block II, Kaingaroa Survey District (Te Rere Trig. Station), along
a right line to the aforementioned corner, along the south boundary
of the aforesaid Section 2 and Section 2, Block I, Kaingaroa Survey
District, along part of the east and south-west boundaries of 5B 1,
the south-western boundary of Part 5B 4B and that boundary
produced across a public road, along the south-western boundaries
of other Part 5B 4B, 5B 5B, and 5B 5A, all being of a subdivision of
Rotomahana-Parekarangi Block; thence along the east and north
boundaries of Rotomahana-Parekarangi No. Part 6R 2 Block and
Paeroa Part 1A West Block (State Forest, Gazette, 1929, page 231),
the north boundary of Section 8, Block III, Paeroa Survey District,
the south-east and south-west boundaries of Rotomahana-Parekarangi 6P 2B Block, the south-west and western boundaries of Section 8,
Block XV, Tarawera Survey District, to the Wairua Stream; thence
northerly generally along the aforesaid stream, portion of the south,
east, and portion of the northern shores of Lake Tarawera to Okataina
No. 7 Block; thence along the south-east boundary of that block
and Okaitaina Nos. 8, 3, and 9 Blocks, and Haroharo No. 9, along
the south boundaries of Haroharo Nos. 12A and 10 Blocks and
Rotoma Nos. 1, 3, and 2 Blocks; along the eastern boundary of the
aforesaid Rotoma No. 2 Block and that line produced to the shore
of Lake Rotoma; thence along the eastern shore of that lake to
Section 16, Block VI, Rotoma Survey District; thence along the
eastern boundary generally of that section to and across a public
road; thence along the northern side of that public road to the
northern boundary of Waitangi No. 3 Block (Spring Reserve);
thence along the northern and western boundary of that block, the
northern boundary of Waitangi No. 1 Block and the eastern boundary
of part Taumanu No. 2 Block to the southern shore of Lake Rotoehu;
thence along the southern and part of the western shore of that lake
to the south-eastern corner of part Lot 2, Rotoiti No. 6 and 7C
Blocks (Scenic Reserve, Gazette, 1921, page 2192); thence along
the southern boundary of that block and the southern boundary of
part Rotoiti No. 6 and 7A Blocks to the shore of Lake Rotoiti; thence
along the northern shore of that lake and the eastern side of the
Okere or Kaituna River to a point on the eastern side of that river
where it is crossed by the southern side of the road forming the
northern boundary of Section 15, Block VII, Maketu Survey District;
thence in an easterly direction generally along that boundary to and
across the Te Ngae–Paengaroa Main Highway; thence along that
highway to its junction with the Old Te Puke–Whakatane Coach
Road in the Village of Paengaroa; thence along that Old Coach
Road through the Village of Pongakawa to and across the Otamarakau or Waitahanui Stream in Block IV, Waihi South Survey
District; thence along the eastern side of that stream to the sea;
thence along the seashore to the point of commencement.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purpose of Pleasure-grounds in the City of Palmerston North

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

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of
November, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in
anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto
being taken for the purpose of pleasure-grounds.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land permitted to be taken:—

A. R. P.
20 2 16·4 Part Lot 3, D.P. 1332, being parts Hokowhitu
Nos. 5, 6, and 7 Blocks; coloured orange.
1 0 28·8 Parts Lots 2 and 3, D.P. 1332, being part
Hokowhitu No. 7 Block; coloured orange.
0 0 39·1 Part Lot 3, D.P. 1332, being part Hokowhitu
No. 7 Block; coloured orange, edged orange.

Situated in Block XI, Kairanga Survey District (City of
Palmerston North). (S.O. 21025.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 117318,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and
thereon coloured as above mentioned.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 50/92.)

Directing the Sale of Land under the Public Works Act, 1928, in the Town District of Howick

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

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of
November, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon him by the Public Works 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 direct the sale of the land described in the
Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the public
work for which it was acquired.