MAR. 21] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 351

Vesting in the North Canterbury Catchment Board Control of Water-
courses in the North Canterbury Catchment District and making Provisions as to the Cost of River Works

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

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of March, 1946 Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by section one hundred and thirty of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941, and of every other power and authority 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 direct as follows, viz.:—

(1) That all watercourses within the North Canterbury Catchment District, whether natural or constructed or hereafter to be constructed, together with all machinery and appliances used therewith, but excepting therefrom all water-supply races and stock-races which at the date of this Order in Council are under the control of any local authority, shall be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the North Canterbury Catchment Board on and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.

(2) That the whole cost of cleansing, repairing, maintaining, improving, or reconstructing those of the aforesaid watercourses that are situated in the Waimakariri River Trust District, and the machinery and appliances used therewith, shall be provided and paid by the Waimakariri River Trust.

(3) That the whole cost of cleansing, repairing, maintaining, improving, or reconstructing those of the aforesaid watercourses that are situated in the Ashley River Trust District, and the machinery and appliances used therewith, shall be provided and paid by the Ashley River Trust.

(4) That the whole cost of cleansing, repairing, maintaining, improving, or reconstructing those of the aforesaid watercourses that are situated in the County of Ashburton, and the machinery and appliances used therewith, shall be provided and paid by the Ashburton County Council.

(5) One month after the last day of March, June, September, and December in each year, the North Canterbury Catchment Board shall send to the Waimakariri River Trust and to the Ashley River Trust and to the Ashburton County Council a statement of the cost of cleansing, repairing, maintaining, improving, or reconstructing any watercourses situated within their respective districts, and the machinery and appliances used therewith, together with a demand for payment, such statement being compiled to the last day of the month of March, June, September, and December immediately preceding such statement.

(6) Within one month from the date of receipt of such statement of cost and demand, the Waimakariri River Trust and the Ashley River Trust and the Ashburton County Council shall pay the respective amounts of the statements and demands in cash at the office of the North Canterbury Catchment Board at Christchurch.

W. O. HARVEY, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council. (P.W. 75/5/34.)

Constituting the Kekerangu Rabbit District.--(Notice No. Ag. 4263)

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of March, 1946 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 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 of the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute by the specific name of the "Kekerangu 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 oasis of the acreage of the rateable property in the said district.

SCHEDULE BOUNDARIES OF THE KEKERANGU RABBIT DISTRICT ALL that parcel of land situated in the County of Kaikoura, commencing at a point in the middle of the Clarence River and due west of the trig. station on Mole Hill in Block XVIII, Whernside Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction, westerly, and south-westerly direction by the middle-line of the Clarence River to a point opposite the junction of the Red Hill Stream; thence in a northerly and north-easterly direction by that stream and the western and north-western boundaries of the Bluff Run No. 121, the northern and north-western boundaries of Section 1, Block VI, Section 1, Block VII, Section 1, Block VIII, Tapuaenuku Survey District, Section 1, Block VI, Sections 1, 9, and 90, Block VII, and Section 10, Block III, Whernside Survey District; thence in a south-easterly and south-westerly direction generally by the north-east and south-east boundaries of the said Section 10, Block III, part Section 8 and part Section 14, Block VIII, Whernside Survey District, to the southernmost corner of the said part Section 14; thence in an easterly direction by a right line to the north-west corner of part Section 3, Block VIII aforesaid; thence in a south-westerly direction by the north-eastern boundary of the said part Section 3 to Trig. P on Ragged Robin; thence in a south-westerly direction by the watershed known as the Front Range and Ladies' Range to the trig. station on Mole Hill; thence due west by a right line to the point of commencement.

W. O. HARVEY, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE Francis Thomas Carson, District Public Trustee, Christchurch. John Chipelen Robins, District Public Trustee, Blenheim. James Patrick Joyce, District Public Trustee, Tauranga. Henry Thomas Harris, District Public Trustee, Te Aroha. Sidney George Lamb, Second Assistant District Public Trustee, Auckland. Eric Dudley Thompson, Second Assistant District Public Trustee, Christchurch. Maxwell Rowe Nelson, District Manager, Public Trust, Balclutha. Owen Graham Robinson, District Manager, Public Trust, Ashburton. John Marshall Langdon, Acting District Manager, Public Trust, Rotorua. Gordon Charles Blake, District Accountant, Public Trust, Dannevirke. Thomas Adam Hannah, District Accountant, Public Trust, Napier. Harold James Craig, Senior Estates Clerk, Public Trust, New Plymouth.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of March, 1946. H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE Angus McKay, Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Christchurch. John Gerard Webber, Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Wellington. John Bond, Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Christchurch. Alexander Colin Patrick McRae, Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Gisborne. Francis McGreevy, Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Westport. Jack Sinclair Palma Dempsey, Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Dunedin. William Melville Griffiths, Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Dunedin.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of March, 1946. H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.