Constitution of Rural Fire District
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of October, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
PURSUANT to the Forest and Rural Fires Act, 1947, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute and declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a rural fire district, to be known as the “Granville Rural Fire District,” as from the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight; and doth hereby specify the trees and other plants in the State forests in the said area as the property for the protection of which the district is constituted; and doth hereby specify the period between the first day of August in any one year and the thirtieth day of April in the following year (both days inclusive) as a closed fire season in the said district; and both hereby prescribe that the said Granville Rural Fire District shall be administered by the Commissioner of State Forests for the purposes of the said Act.
SCHEDULE
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WESTLAND CONSERVANCY
Granville Rural Fire District
All that area in the Westland Land District, containing 32,300 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks XIII, XIV, and XV, Mawheraiti Survey District, and Blocks I, II, III, IV, VI, VII, VIII, and XII, Ahaura Survey District, and bounded generally as follows : Towards the north-east generally by the north-eastern side of the Waipuna Road, by Section 259, Block XV, Mawheraiti Survey District, and by Section 5 of Square 121 to the western side of a road abutting on the north-eastern boundary of Section 10, Block IV, Ahaura Survey District; thence by the western side of that road, the north-eastern side of Clarke Track, again by Section 5 of Square 121, and by the Grey River to a point in line with the easternmost corner of Section 3325, Block IV, Ahaura Survey District; towards the east generally by permanent State forest (Gazette, 1940, page 1785) to the south-eastern corner of Section 3325 aforesaid ; thence by a right line bearing 183° 46' 39287·5 links to the northernmost corner of Section 2375, Block XII, Ahaura Survey District, and by Section 2375 aforesaid and Reserve 754 (gravel), to and across the Ahaura-Kopara Road; towards the south-west generally by the south-western side of the Ahaura-Kopara Road to its junction with the Orwell Creek Road; thence by Sections 106, 105, 247, 246, and 110, all of Square 122, by Reserves 1331 and 692 (gravel), and again by Reserve 1331; towards the west generally by Sections 18 and 17, Block I, Ahaura Survey District, Section 133 of Square 122, Sections 14, 26, and 13, Block I aforesaid; towards the north-west generally by Reserve 1342, Sections 82 and 83, Reserve 1112 (gravel), again by Section 83, and by Section 9, Block XIII, Mawheraiti Survey District; thence by Sections 157, 156, 155, 154, 152, 151, 150, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, and 88, all of Square 122, and towards the north generally by Sections 89, part Sections 90 and 91, Sections 92, 190, and 198, all of Square 122, to and across the Waipuna Road. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 120/31, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(F.S. 12/9/5/2.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £15,000 by the Taranaki Electric-power Board and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of October, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the Taranaki Electric-power Board (hereinafter called the said local authority), being desirous of raising a loan of fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000), to be known as “Reticulation Extension Loan, 1948” (hereinafter called the said loan), for the purpose of providing additional moneys for 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:
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 fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows :
(1) The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be 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 or rates exceeding three pounds five shillings (£3 5s.) per centum per annum.
(3) The said loan or any part thereof shall be repaid by equal half-yearly instalments of principal extending over the term as determined in (1) above.

(4) The payment of interest and principal in respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.
(5) No amount payable either as interest or as principal in respect of the said loan shall be paid out of loan-moneys.
(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement 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.
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(T. 49/191/13.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £375 by the Alexandra Borough Council and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of October, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the Alexandra Borough Council (hereinafter called the said local authority) proposes, pursuant to the provisions of section three of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1928, to borrow the sum of three hundred and seventy-five pounds (£375), by a loan to be known as “Main Highways Loan, 1948” (hereinafter called the said loan), for the purpose of paying its portion of the cost of reconstruction and sealing work on the Alexandra–Springvale Main Highway:
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 consent to the raising by the said local authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of three hundred and seventy-five pounds (£375), 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 be five (5) 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 a rate exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum.
(3) The said loan, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual instalments extending over the term as determined in (1) above.
(4) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(T. 49/303.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £5,000 by the Hawke's Bay Catchment Board and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of October, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. W. NASH PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the Hawke's Bay Catchment Board (hereinafter called the said local authority) proposes, pursuant to the provisions of section thirty of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941, to raise a loan of five thousand pounds (£5,000), to be known as “Works Loan, 1948” (hereinafter called the said loan), for the purpose of paying its portion of the cost of the Tuki Tuki River control scheme:
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 consent to the raising by the said local authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of five thousand pounds (£5,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows :
(1) The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed six and one-half (6½) 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 a rate exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum.
(3) The said loan or any part thereof shall be free of principal repayments until the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and thereafter shall be repaid, together with interest thereon, by five (5) equal aggregate annual instalments, the first such instalment to be paid on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.
(4) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council,
(T. 49/713.)