of the respective loans set out in the second column of the said Schedule, up to the respective amounts specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:

(1) The terms for which the said loans or any parts thereof may be raised shall be the respective terms (in years) stated in the fourth column of the said Schedule.

(2) The rates of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loans or any parts thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding the respective rates per centum per annum stated in the fifth column of the said Schedule.

(3) The said respective loans or any parts thereof, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the respective terms as determined in (1) above.

(4) The payment of such instalments shall be made in New Zealand, and no such instalment shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(5) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procuration fees in respect of the raising of the said respective loans or any parts thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.

(6) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

SCHEDULE

(T. 40/416/6.)

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

Varying the Determinations in respect of Portion (£87,000) of the Auckland City Council's Loan of £144,500

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of October, 1947

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the thirtieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six (hereinafter referred to as the said Order in Council), and subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment therein set out, consent was given to the raising in New Zealand by the Auckland City Council (hereinafter referred to as the said local authority) of a loan of one hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred pounds (£144,500), to be known as "Parks and Reserves Loan, 1946" (hereinafter referred to as the said loan):

And whereas the authority conferred by the said Order in Council has not yet been exercised, and it is expedient to vary certain of the determinations aforesaid in respect of a portion of the said loan amounting to eighty-seven thousand pounds (£87,000) (hereinafter called the said sum):

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 Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, 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 vary certain of the determinations aforesaid in respect of the said sum by prescribing that in lieu of repayment by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments of principal and interest, as specified in clause three of the said Order in Council, the said sum 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 each such half-year in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE OF REDEMPTIONS

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

(T. 49/121/63.)

Constituting the Glencoe Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4457)

B.C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of October, 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 "Glencoe 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 GLENCOE RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the County of Southland, Southland Land District, containing by estimation 35,300 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the confluence of the Titipua Stream and Makarewa River; thence in a north-easterly direction generally along the left bank of the said Makarewa River to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Section 193, Block V, Forest Hill Hundred; thence in a south-easterly direction across a river-bank road, to and along the south-western boundary of the said Section 193, along a public road forming the south-western boundary of Section 193 aforesaid and Section 194, Block V, Forest Hill Hundred, and along the south-western boundary of the said Section 194 to the northernmost corner of Section 323, Block V, Forest Hill Hundred; thence in a south-westerly and south-easterly direction along the north-western and south-western boundaries respectively of the said Section 323 and a production of the last-mentioned boundary to the south-eastern side of a public road; thence in a north-easterly and easterly direction generally along the south-eastern and southern side of the said public road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section 323 aforesaid and Sections 222 and 142, Block IX, Forest Hill Hundred, and forming the southern boundary of Sections 437 and 438, Block IX, Forest Hill Hundred, to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of the said Section 438; thence in a north-easterly direction across the said public road to and along the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 438 and 437 aforesaid to the easternmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence in a northerly direction generally along the eastern boundaries of Sections 436 and 435, Block IX, Forest Hill Hundred, to the north-eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; thence in an easterly direction along the southern boundary of Sections 133, 134, and the Invercargill Water-supply Reserve, Blocks X, Forest Hill Hundred, and IV, Waimumu Hundred; thence in a southerly direction along the western boundary of Section 52A, Block I, Lindhurst Hundred; thence westerly along the northern boundary of Section 53, Block I, Lindhurst Hundred; thence southerly along the western boundary