DEC. 2] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 6. DURATION OF LICENCE Unless sooner determined, this licence shall continue in force until the 31st day of March, 1969, or until electrical energy is available from an Electric-power Board or other public source of supply, whichever is the earlier. 7. RENTAL For the purpose of assessing the annual rental payable in respect of this licence, the licensee may install a suitable maximum-demand indicator to the satisfaction of the Inspecting Engineer of the State Hydro-electric Department, and, failing such installation, the rental shall be assessed on the maximum generating capacity of the plant installed. The present plant is rated at 2·2 kilowatts. T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council. (S.H.D. 11/20/1212.) Authorizing Samuel Joseph Steele, of Waihi, Sheep-farmer, to Use Water for the Purpose of Generating Electricity B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General By his Deputy, H. F. O'LEARY ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of December, 1948 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to the Public Works Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby grant to Samuel Joseph Steele, of Waihi, Sheep-farmer (hereinafter referred to as the licensee), a licence subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, to take and use from an unnamed stream (hereinafter referred to as the said stream) situated in Section lA No. 1, Block II, Waihi North Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, for the purposes herein- after set forth, a stream of water not exceeding 1·5 cubic feet per second at any one time. CONDITIONS 1. IMPLIED CONDITIONS The conditions directed to be implied in all licences by the Water- power Regulations 1934 and the Electrical Supply Regulations 1935 shall be incorporated in and shall form part of this licence, except in so far as the same may be inconsistent with the provisions hereof. 2. LICENCE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS This licence is issued under the Water-power Regulations 1934, and is subject thereto and to the Electrical Supply Regulations 1935, the Electrical Wiring Regulations 1935, and the Radio Interference Regulations 1934, and to any regulations made or to be made in amplification or amendment thereof or in substitution therefor. 3. UTILIZATION OF WATER AND LOCATION OF HEADWORKS Water shall be used under this licence solely for the purpose of generating electricity up to a maximum capacity of 4 kilowatts and shall be taken from the said stream at the point in Section lA No. 1, Block II, Waihi North Survey District, indicated on the plan marked S.H.D. 44, deposited in the office of the Minister in Charge of the State Hydro-electric Department. 4. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKS The licensee is hereby authorized, subject to the conditions hereof, to construct, maintain, and use the following works for the purposes of this licence, the positions of the said works being indicated on the said plan S.H.D. 44:- (a) Headworks consisting of a dam and intake with a water- race and pipe-line leading to the power-house, hereinafter referred to, giving a static head of approximately 87 ft.: (b) A Pelton wheel and power-house with all necessary equip- ment for generating electricity, situated in Section lA No. 1, Block II, Waihi North Survey District : (c) A tail-race leading from the aforesaid power-house into the said stream. 5. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY The system of supply shall be as described in paragraph (d) of clause 21-01 of the Electrical Supply Regulations 1935, and shall be an alternating current system. The generating voltage shall be 115 volts. 6. DURATION OF LICENCE Unless sooner determined, this licence shall continue in force until the 31st day of March, 1969, or until electrical energy is available from an Electric-power Board or other public source of supply, whichever is the earlier. 7. RENTAL For the purpose of assessing the annual rental payable in respect of this licence, the licensee may install a suitable maximum-demand indicator to the satisfaction of the Inspecting Engineer of the State Hydro-electric Department, and, failing such installation, the rental shall be assessed on the maximum generating capacity of the plant installed. The present plant is rated at 4 kilowatts. T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council. (S.H.D. 11/20/1224.) Constituting the Upper Waihao Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4576) B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General By his Deputy, H. F. O'LEARY ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of December, 1948 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, and to section twenty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1947, His Excellency the Governor-General, at the request of the Minister of Agriculture, made on the recommendation of the Rabbit Destruction Council, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land, the boundaries of which are described in the Schedule hereto, being an area to which subsection one of section thirty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, applies, a rabbit district, and doth appoint that the name of the said rabbit district shall be the Upper Waihao Rabbit District, and doth order that the basis on which the Rabbit Board to be established for the said district shall first levy its general rate shall be the acreage of land occupied by the ratepayer. SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF THE UPPER WAIHAO RABBIT DISTRICT ALL that area in the Waimate County of the Canterbury Land District, commencing at a point in the centre of the Waitaki River, such point being in line with the north-western boundary of Rural Section 22389, Block VI, Elephant Hill Survey District, and being the south-west corner of the Redcliff Rabbit District ; thence up the centre of the said Waitaki River, to and along the centre of the Hakataramea River, to and along the centre of Bluestone Creek, which forms the northern boundary of R.S. 29567, 26479, and 29413, Block VIII, Hakataramea Survey District; thence south- westerly along the south-eastern boundary of said R.S. 29413 to Sisters Creek, which forms the northern boundary of R.S. 35010; thence easterly by that creek and south-easterly along a tributary of that creek and along a netted fence to a point on Meyers Pass Road near R.S. 33900, Block IX, Waihao Survey District; thence along the south side of that road to the south-eastern boundary of R.S. 36394; thence along that boundary and the south-west boundary of that section to the south-eastern boundary of R.S. 36395, and generally by that boundary to the north-eastern boundary of R.S. 32808; thence south-easterly by that boundary to a public road, and along the south-western side of that road intersecting R.S. 26334 and 31577 to another public road; thence generally in a south-easterly direction along the south-western side of that road, and intersecting R.S. 31577 and forming the northern boundaries of R.S. 26331, 26330, and 26329 in Block I, Elephant Hill Survey District, to the south-eastern boundary of the last-named section; thence south-westerly by that boundary and the south-eastern boundary of R.S. 26228 and 26229; thence generally south-easterly along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 2B and 3 of the Takitu Settlement, and along the south-eastern boundary of the last-named section and its extension to the centre of the Waitaki River, the point of commencement. T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council. Constituting the Buscot Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4575) B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General By his Deputy, H. F. O'LEARY ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of December, 1948 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, and to section twenty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1947, His Excellency the Governor-General, at the request of the Minister of Agriculture, made on the recommendation of the Rabbit Destruction Council, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land, the boundaries of which are described in the Schedule hereto, being an area to which subsection one of section thirty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, applies, a rabbit district, and doth appoint that the name of the said rabbit district shall be the Buscot Rabbit District, and doth order that the basis on which the Rabbit Board to be established for the said district shall first levy its general rate shall be the acreage of land occupied by the ratepayer. SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF THE BUSCOT RABBIT DISTRICT ALL that area in the Waimate County of the Canterbury Land District, commencing at a point in the centre of the Waitaki River at the junction of the Mackenzie and Waimate County boundary, and proceeding in a north-easterly direction by that boundary to the northern boundary of Pastoral Run 67; thence easterly by that boundary and by the northern boundaries of Pastoral Runs 66A and 66B to the south-eastern boundary of Pastoral Run 66B; thence generally in a south-westerly direction by the south-eastern