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that stream to the eastern side of Parawera Road ; thence north-
ward along the eastern side of the said road and the north-eastern
side of the Hairini-Puahue Road to a point in line with the north-
western boundary of Puahue School site ; thence along the generally
eastern boundaries of Lot 1 on D.P. 6591 and Lot 2 on D.P. 3649 to
the westernmost corner of Section 6s, Puahue Settlement ; thence
in a north-easterly direction along the south-eastern side of the road
forming the north-western boundaries of Sections 6s, 22s, 3s, and
2s, all of Puahue Settlement, and its production through Section 1s,
Puahue Settlement, to the north-eastern boundary of that section ;
thence in an easterly direction generally along the north-eastern
boundaries of Sections 1s, 2s, 4s, 5s, and the generally northern
and eastern boundary of Section 10s, all of Puahue Settlement,
to the point of commencement : save and excepting the Maru
Rabbit-proof Fencing District (Gazette, 1921, page 3008, and Gazette,
1923, page 1060), and Mangare Rabbit-proof Fencing District
(Gazette, 1926, page 1218).

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

Constituting the South Head Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4148)

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of
November, 1944

Present :

THE HON. W. NASH 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 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 rate-
payers’ 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 “ South Head 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 SOUTH HEAD RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Waitemata County of approximately 75,000
acres, bounded towards the south-west by the Tasman Sea ; towards
the north and north-east by the Kaipara Harbour ; towards the
east by the Kaipara River ; and towards the south generally by the
Kaipoai Stream, Wharepapa 1b No. 2 and 1c Blocks, Lots 2, 3,
and 4, D.P. 11361, being part Wharepapa No. 1d Block and Puke-
tapu Block.

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

Fixing Sittings of the Court of Appeal

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of
November, 1944

Present :

THE HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, it is
enacted that the Court of Appeal shall hold its sittings at
such times and places as are from time to time appointed by the
Governor-General in Council and notified in the Gazette twenty-one
days at least before the times so fixed respectively, and that such
appointment shall determine the division by which such sittings
shall be held :

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, doth hereby appoint
and declare that sittings of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall
be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington,
upon the following days at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, and doth
hereby determine that such sittings shall be held by the respective
divisions of the said Court as are shown hereunder :—

Monday, the fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred
and forty-five : By the Second Division of the said Court.
Monday, the eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred
and forty-five : By the First Division of the said Court.
Monday, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-five : By the Second Division of the
said Court.

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

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £25,000 by the Franklin
Electric-power Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of
November, 1944

Present :

THE HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Franklin Electric-power Board (hereinafter
called “ the said local authority ”), being desirous of raising
a loan of twenty-five thousand pounds (£25,000), to be known as
“ Special Loan, 1944 ” (hereinafter called “ the said loan ”), for the
purpose of further reticulation of the Board’s district, 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
purpose hereinbefore mentioned up to the amount of twenty-five
thousand pounds (£25,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby
determine as follows :—

(1) The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may
be borrowed shall be 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 five shillings
(£3 5s.) per centum per annum.

(3) The said loan shall be repaid by the half-yearly redemption
of debentures in the half-years set out in the first column of the
Schedule hereunder of the amounts stated opposite such half-years
in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

(4) The payment of interest and the redemptions in respect of
the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.

(5) No amount payable as interest or as a redemption shall be
paid out of loan-moneys.

(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and pro-
curation 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. 49/198/6.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £32,000 by the Ashburton
Electric-power Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of
November, 1944

Present :

THE HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Ashburton Electric-power Board (hereinafter
called “ the said local authority ”), being desirous of raising
a loan of thirty-two thousand pounds (£32,000), to be known as
“ Special Loan No. 6, 1944 ” (hereinafter called “ the said loan ”),
for the purpose of the further reticulation of the Board’s district,
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 :