Authorizing the Acquisition of Land notwithstanding the Provisions
as to Limitations of Area
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of
September, 1947
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
PURSUANT to section forty-one of the Statutes Amendment
Act, 1945, and of all other powers him enabling, His Excellency
the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth
hereby authorize the disposition to and the acquisition by Douglas
Gardiner Copland and Allan McAra Copland, of Otaraia, Farmers, as
tenants in common of the land described in the Schedule hereto,
notwithstanding the provisions of Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924.
SCHEDULE
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT
All that area containing 33 acres 2 roods 33 perches, more or less,
being Section 17, Block X, Waikaka Survey District, and being all
the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 100, folio 52
(Southland Registry).
W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 13/1/36.)
Altering and Redefining the Boundaries of the Orepuki Rabbit
District.-(Notice No. Ag. 4453)
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of
September, 1947
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS by section thirty-one of the Rabbit Nuisance Act,
1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General, at the request
of the Board of any rabbit district, may, by Order in Council,
alter and redefine the boundaries of its district:
And whereas the district known as the Orepuki 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
BOUNDARIES OF THE OREPUKI RABBIT DISTRICT
All that area in the Southland Land District, containing 63,940
acres, more or less, inclusive of roads, railways, and streams,
situated in the Longwood and Waiau Survey Districts, and bounded
as follows : Commencing at the south-western corner of Section 16,
Block XI, Longwood Survey District; thence in a northerly
direction along the western boundary of the said Section 16, to
and across a public road, the Riverton-Orepuki Railway, and
another public road, to the south-western corner of Section 15,
Block XI, Longwood Survey District; thence northerly along
the western boundaries of Sections 15 and 21, Block XI, Sections
12 and 18, Block X, Longwood Survey District, to and across the
Round Hill-Colac Bay Road; thence in a north-westerly direction
along the south-western boundary of Section 15, Block X aforesaid ;
thence north-easterly along the north-western boundary of
the said Section 15, to and across a water-race reserve to Port's
Water-race; thence in a north-westerly direction along the said
water-race to the western boundary of Block X aforesaid; thence
in a northerly direction along the western boundaries of Blocks
X and IX, Longwood Survey District, to the southern boundary of
Block XIV, Longwood Survey District; thence in a westerly
direction along the southern boundaries of Block XIV and Block
XIII, Longwood Survey District, to the south-western corner of
Section 1, Block XIII aforesaid; thence north-westerly and north-
easterly along the south-western and north-western boundaries of
Section 1, Block XIII aforesaid; thence north-westerly and
northerly along the western boundaries of Block XIII aforesaid to
the southern boundary of Block XXII, Longwood Survey District;
thence westerly along the southern boundary of Block XXII afore-
said; thence northerly along the western boundary of the said
Block XXII; thence easterly along the northern boundary of Block
XXII aforesaid to the south-western corner of Block XIX, Long-
wood Survey District ; thence in a northerly direction along the
western boundary of Block XIX aforesaid to the south-western
corner of Section 9, Block XIX aforesaid; thence in a north-
easterly direction along the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 9,
8, a public road, and Section 5, Block XIX, Longwood Survey
District, to the north-eastern corner of the said Section 5; thence
in a northerly and north-easterly direction along the western
boundary of a State Forest Reserve in Blocks XIV and XI, Waiau
Survey District, to the southern boundary of Section 11, Maori
Hill Settlement, Block XI aforesaid; thence in a westerly, south-
westly, and northerly direction along the southern and western
boundaries of the said Section 11 to a public road ; thence south-
westerly along the said public road to its intersection with a public
road along the western boundary of part Section 2 of 10, Maori
Hill Settlement, Block XI, Waiau Survey District; thence in a
north-westerly direction along the western side of the said public
road, to and across a road reserve to the left bank of the Orauea
River ; thence down the said left bank to a point in line with the
western boundary of Section 43, Block X, Waiau Survey District;
thence in a north-westerly direction across the Orauea River and
a road reserve, to and along the said western boundary of Section 43
to the easternmost point of Section 132, Block X, Waiau Survey
District; thence in a south-westerly direction along the south-
eastern boundaries of Sections 132 and 134, Block X, and Section
136, Block XIII, to the south-eastern corner thereof; thence due
south across a road reserve and the Orauea River to the left bank
of the said river; thence down the said left bank to a point in line
with the western boundary of Section 138, Block XIII; thence
across the Orauea River and a road reserve, to and along the said
western boundary of Section 138, Block XIII, Waiau Survey District,
and that boundary produced across a road reserve, to the left bank
of the Waiau River; thence in a south-westerly direction along the
said left bank of the Waiau River; including Section 25, Block XV,
Longwood Survey District, to the ocean; thence in a south-easterly
direction generally along the coast-line to a point in line with the
western boundary of Section 16, Block XI, Longwood Survey
District; thence in a northerly direction to the point of commence-
ment; save and excepting all that area of land included in the
Town of Hirstfield.
W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
Constituting the Kawhia Rabbit District.-(Notice No. Ag. 4455)
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of
September, 1947
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
the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute by the specific
name of the "Kawhia 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 KAWHIA RABBIT DISTRICT
All that area of approximately 27,700 acres in the Auckland Land
District, situated in the County of Kawhia, bounded by a line
commencing at a point in the middle of the Makomako Road on
the line between the south-eastern corner of Section 19 and the
south-western corner of Lot 2 of Section 18, Block XIV, Karioi
Survey District, and running generally easterly along a right line
to and along the southern boundaries generally of Lot 2 of Section 18
aforesaid, and Sections 7 and 8, Block XV of the said survey district,
to the western side of Koponui Road; thence along the said western
side to the road angle nearest the south-western corner of Section 4,
Block IV, Kawhia North Survey District; thence along a right line
crossing the said road, to and along the southern boundary of the
said Section 4, the western and southern boundaries of Section 7,
Block I, Pirongia Survey District; and the western side of Otungaoko
Road to the angle opposite the south-western corner of Section 6
of the aforesaid Block I.; thence along a right line across the said
road, to and along the southern boundary of the said Section 6, the
western, southern, and south-eastern boundaries of part Moerangi
No. 4 Block (provisional State forest-New Zealand Gazette, 1920,
page 2118) to Trig. Station Tahanui; thence along the abutment
of a public road, the south-western boundaries of Allotments 428