And whereas the district known as the Woodlands 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

B OUNDARIES OF THE WOODLANDS RABBIT DISTRICT

All that area in the County of Southland, Southland Land District, containing by approximation 48,770 acres, more or less, and being part of Lindhurst, Lothian, Invercargill, Oteramika, and Mabel Hundreds, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the Invercargill-Dunedin Main Highway and McKerchar Road; thence in a northerly direction along the said McKerchar Road to Irvine's Road; thence north-easterly along the said Irvine's Road to the Grove Bush-Woodlands Road; thence in a north-westerly direction along the said Grove Bush-Woodlands Road to the Invercargill-Hedgehope Road; thence in a northerly direction generally along the said Invercargill-Hedgehope Road to its junction with a public road along the south-western boundary of Section 25, Block IV, Mabel Hundred; thence in a south-westerly direction along the said public road to Robertson Road; thence in an easterly direction generally along a public road forming the southern boundary of Sections 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, and 26, Block I, Mabel Hundred, to Woodstock Road; thence in a south-easterly and southerly direction along the said Woodstock Road to the northern boundary of Section 12, Block I, Mabel Hundred; thence due east along the northern boundary of the said Section 12 and Section 2 to a public road; thence due north along the said public road to the Titipua Stream; thence in an easterly direction along the said Titipua Stream to a public road along the north-eastern boundary of Section 56, Block V, Lindhurst Hundred; thence in a southerly direction generally along the said public road to another public road along the southern boundary of Section 19, Block IV, Lothian Hundred; thence in a south-easterly direction generally along the said public road to Downs Road; thence in a southerly and south-westerly direction generally along the said Downs Road to the Invercargill-Dunedin Railway-line; thence in a south-westerly direction generally along the said Invercargill-Dunedin Railway-line to Swain's Road; thence southerly and south-westerly along the said Swain's Road to the northern boundary of Lot 242, D.P. 158; thence westerly, southerly, and easterly along the northern, western, and southern boundaries of the said Lot 242 to a point in line with the western boundary of Section 9, Block XI, Oteramika Hundred; thence southerly along a closed road intersecting Lot 1, D.P. 153, and forming the said western boundary of Section 9 aforesaid; thence south-westerly along the continuation of the aforesaid closed road forming the northern boundaries of Lots 10 and 11, D.P. 153, to its intersection with another closed road intersecting Lots 8 and 7, D.P. 153; thence westerly generally along the last-mentioned closed road through Lots 8, 7, 6, 12, 13, 42, 43, and 44, and along the northern boundary of Lot 44, D.P. 153, to the Waituna School-Morton Mains Road; thence north-easterly along the said Waituna School-Morton Mains Road to the Woodlands-Morton Mains Highway; thence westerly along the said Woodlands-Morton Mains Highway to Clark and Walker's Road; thence southerly along the said Clark and Walker's Road, and westerly generally along Oteramika Road, and northerly along the Woodlands South Road to the Waihopai River; thence westerly along the said Waihopai River to Evans Road; thence northerly by the said Evans Road to the Invercargill-Dunedin Main Highway; and thence south-westerly along the said Invercargill-Dunedin Main Highway to the point of commencement.

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

Changing the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in Lyndon Survey District, Canterbury Land District

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 10th day of May, 1944 Present:

THE Hon. D. G. SULLIVAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for public purposes: And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the reservation over such land shall be changed to a reserve for buildings of the General Government:

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 exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (a) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby declare that the purpose of the reservation over the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a reserve for public purposes to a reserve for buildings of the General Government.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT ALL that area containing by admeasurement 19·6 perches, more or less, being part of Reserve 3783, Block II, Lyndon Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by other part of Reserve 3783, 92·49 links; towards the east by Conical Hill Road, 93·02 links; towards the south-east by Jacks Pass Road, 38·0 links, 37·9 links, and 40·2 links; and towards the west by Reserve 3781, 158·3 links. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 53102, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council. (L. and S. 53102.) Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Kokatahi Domain C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of May, 1944 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-four of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks 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 appoint Thomas Augustus Ecclesfield, James Fleming, Charles Turner Woolhouse, Bernard Thomas O'Brien, Thomas Patrick O'Neil, John William Kelly, and Donald Weir to be the Kokatahi Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Wednesday, the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, at eight o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the Kokatahi Public Hall as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE

KOKATAHI DOMAIN.—WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT RESERVE 1179, Block X, Kaniere Survey District: Area, 6 acres 0 roods 11·5 perches, more or less.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council. (L. and S. 1/1003.) Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Domett Domain C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of May, 1944 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-four of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks 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 appoint Alexander McArthur Hyde, Allan Wotherspoon Meikle, Frederick Robert Partington, James Paton, Arthur Charles Partington, Robert James Hughey, and Edward Ayrton to be the Domett Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Friday, the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, at half past seven o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the Domett Hall as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE

DOMETT DOMAIN.—CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT RESERVE No. 3177, Cheviot Estate, Block XIX, Lowry Peaks Survey District: Area, 11 acres 1 rood, more or less. Also Reserve No. 3241, Cheviot Estate, Block XVI, Lowry Peaks Survey District: Area, 8 acres 3 roods 38 perches, more or less. Also Reserve No. 3148, Cheviot Estate, Block XI, Cheviot Survey District: Area, 12 acres 2 roods, more or less. Also Reserve No. 3158, Block XVI, Lowry Peaks Survey District: Area, 10 acres 2 roods 7 perches, more or less. Also Reserve No. 3895, Block XVI, Lowry Peaks Survey District: Area, 3 acres 0 roods 24 perches, more or less. Also Reserve No. 3848, Block V, Domett Township: Area, 1 rood, more or less.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council. (L. and S. 1/271.)