SEPT. 16] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1111

authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of
five hundred and forty thousand pounds (£540,000), 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 thirty (30) 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 exceeding three pounds ten shillings
(£3 10s.) per centum per annum.

(3) The said local authority shall, before raising the said loan
or any part thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by
establishing a sinking fund under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1926, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable,
and shall thereafter make payments to such sinking fund at intervals
of not more than one year at a rate or rates per centum which shall
be not less than two pounds (£2), such payments to be made in
respect of every part of the said loan for the time being so borrowed
and not repaid, the first such payment to be made not later than
one year after the first day from which interest to the lender or
lenders is computed on the said loan or any part thereof so raised.

(4) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in
respect of the said loan shall be paid out of loan-money.

(5) The payment of interest and repayment of principal in
respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.

(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procura-
tion 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.

(7) 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. 49/121.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £1,000 by the Nelson City
Council and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of August,
1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Nelson City Council (hereinafter called “the
said local authority”) proposes, pursuant to the terms of a
requisition issued under section twenty-two of the Health Act,
1920, to raise a loan of one thousand pounds (£1,000), to be known
as “Cemetery Loan, No. 2, 1943,” for the purpose of paying the
balance of the cost of providing a cemetery for the benefit of its
district:

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 Local Government Loans Board Act,
1926, 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 one thousand pounds (£1,000), 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 (20) 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 exceeding three pounds ten shillings
(£3 10s.) per centum per annum.

(3) The said local authority shall, before raising the said loan
or any part thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by
establishing a sinking fund under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1926, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable,
and shall thereafter make payments to such sinking fund at intervals
of not more than one year at a rate or rates per centum which
shall be not less than three pounds fifteen shillings (£3 15s.), such
payments to be made in respect of every part of the said loan for
the time being so borrowed and not repaid, the first such payment
to be made not later than one year after the first day from which
interest to the lender or lenders is computed on the said loan or
any part thereof so raised.

(4) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in
respect of the said loan shall be paid out of loan-money.

(5) The payment of interest and repayment of principal in
respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.

(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procura-
tion 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.

(7) 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. 49/279.)

Constituting the Waipiata-Patearoa Rabbit District.—(Notice No.
Ag. 4033)

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

By his Deputy,

MICHAEL MYERS

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of
September, 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 accord-
ingly:

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 “Waipiata-Patearoa 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 WAIPAITA-PATEAROA RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Otago Land District containing 74,000 acres,
more or less, being part of Maniototo, Upper Taieri, Rock and Pillar,
and Loganburn Survey Districts. Bounded on the north generally
by the Taieri River from a point in line with the western boundary
of Section 5, Block XIV, to a point in line with the eastern boundary of
Section 7, Block XV, Maniototo Survey District; thence south along
the eastern boundaries of said Section 7 and Section 3; thence
east and south along the northern and eastern boundaries of Sec-
tion 22, Block I, Rock and Pillar Survey District, across a public
road; thence north-east along that road to the north-eastern
corner of Run 204c; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern
boundaries of said Run 204c and Runs 204D, 248J, and 248K; thence
north-westerly along the south-western boundary of said Run 248K
to the Taieri River; thence south-westerly along the Taieri River
to the south-eastern corner of Run 308F; thence north-westerly
along the south-western boundary of said Run 308F across a public
road; thence north-westerly along the road forming the south-
western boundary of Runs 308E and 308D; thence northerly and
north-easterly along the road forming the western and north-western
boundaries of said Run 308D to a point in line with the southern
boundary of Section 9, Block XII, Upper Taieri Survey District;
thence easterly to and along the southern boundary of said Sec-
tion 9; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of said Section 9;
thence north-easterly along the north-western boundary of said
Run 308D to the Taieri River; thence north-easterly generally
along that river to the north-western corner of Section 15, Block X,
Upper Taieri Survey District; thence easterly along the northern
boundary of said Section 15 to the Waipiata-Styx Main Highway;
thence north-easterly along that highway to the western boundary
of Section 12, Block IV, Upper Taieri Survey District; thence
northerly and easterly along the western and northern boundaries
of said Section 12 to the aforesaid main highway; thence north-
easterly along that highway to the western boundary of Section 13,
Block XIV, Maniototo Survey District; thence northerly along
that boundary to a public road; thence across and easterly along
that road to the western boundary of Section 5, Block XIV, Manio-
toto Survey District; thence northerly along that boundary to the
point of commencement.

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

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in Borough of Geraldine,
Canterbury Land District

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

By his Deputy,

MICHAEL MYERS

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of
September, 1943

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
is a reserve duly set apart for a rifle range:

And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the
reservation over such land shall be changed to a reserve for
plantation purposes: