Feb. 10] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 105

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall
at any time be erected on the land fronting the north-eastern side
of portion of Mary Street (described in the Schedule hereto) within
a distance of forty-eight feet from the centre-line of the said portion
of street.

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SCHEDULE

THE north-eastern side of all that portion of street situated in the
Canterbury Land District, City of Christchurch, known as Mary
Street, fronting part Rural Section 304, Block VII, Christchurch
Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on
the plan marked P.W.D. 118399, deposited in the office of the
Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 51/2831.)

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Declaring the Number of Members and apportioning Representation
on the South Canterbury Catchment Board

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C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 2nd day of
February, 1944

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Soil
Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941, and of every other
power in anywise enabling him in that 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 declare that the South Canterbury Catch-
ment Board shall consist of nine elective members and five non-
elective members, and that the number of such elective members
to be representative of each separate constituent district or com-
bined district within the catchment district on the said Board
shall be the number specified in the Schedule hereto opposite the
name of the constituent district or group of names of constituent
districts comprising a combined district; and doth further declare
that each group of constituent districts the names of which are
bracketed together in the first column of the Schedule hereto is
hereby constituted a combined district for the purposes of the said
Act, and that the principal local authority of each such combined
district shall be the local authority of the constituent district
distinguished in the first column of the Schedule hereto by the
letter “(P)”.

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SCHEDULE

Constituent Districts. Number
of Members.
Ashburton County (part of) .. .. .. 2
Geraldine County .. .. .. 1
Levels County .. .. .. 1
Waimate County (part of) .. .. .. 1
Mackenzie County (part of) .. .. .. 1
Timaru Borough .. .. .. 1
Ashburton Borough (P) \ .. .. .. 1
Tinwald Town /
Waimate Borough (P) \ .. .. .. 1
Geraldine Borough /
Pleasant Point Town .. .. .. 1
Temuka Borough /

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

(P.W. 75/6.)

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New Zealand Loans Act, 1932.—Authorizing the Minister of Finance
to declare certain Securities to be convertible into New Securities

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C. L. N. NEWALL Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of January,
1944

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section
fifteen of the New Zealand Loans Act, 1932, and of every other
power 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 authorize the Minister of Finance to declare
the securities described in the Schedule hereto to be convertible into
new securities:—

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SCHEDULE

4-per-cent. stock and bearer debentures maturing on 15th
February, 1946.

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

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Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £1,850 by the Feilding Fire
Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof

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C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of
February, 1944

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Feilding Fire Board (hereinafter called “the
said local authority”), being desirous of raising a loan of one
thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds (£1,850), to be known as
“Residence Loan, 1943” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for
the purpose of erecting a residence for the Superintendent, including
a garage, paths, fences, &c., and paying the architect’s fees in connec-
tion therewith, has complied with the provisions of the Local Govern-
ment 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 one thousand eight hundred and fifty
pounds (£1,850), 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 ten shillings (£3 10s.), 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) The payment of interest and the repayment of principal in
respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.

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

(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procuration 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. 49/511/2.)

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Constituting the Redcliff Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4072)

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C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 2nd day of
February, 1944

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 of 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 “Redcliff 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.