DEC. 2]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £2,500 by the Green Island Borough Council and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
H. F. O'LEARY
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1948
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN Council
WHEREAS the Green Island Borough Council (hereinafter called the said local authority) proposes, pursuant to the terms of a requisition issued under section twenty-two of the Health Act, 1920, to raise the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds (£2,500), by a loan to be known as “Drainage and Sewerage Loan, 1948” (hereinafter called the said loan), for the purpose of extending drainage and sewerage works in the borough :
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 in New Zealand by the said local authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of two thousand five hundred pounds (£2,500), 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 fifteen (15) 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 exceeding three pounds five shillings (£3 5s.) per centum per annum.
(3) The said loan shall be repaid by annual instalments of principal of not less than one hundred pounds (£100) each extending over the first five years of the term and of not less than two hundred pounds (£200) each extending over the balance of the term.
(4) The payment of such instalments and the payment of interest shall be made in New Zealand, and no instalment or interest shall be paid out of loan-moneys.
(5) 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.
(6) 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. 49/287.)
Varying the Determinations in Respect of Portion (£3,000) of the Banks Peninsula Electric-power Board's Loan of £10,000

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
H. F. O'LEARY
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1948
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN Council
WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the fourteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight (hereinafter called 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 Banks Peninsula Electric-power Board (hereinafter called the said local authority) of a loan of ten thousand pounds (£10,000), to be known as “Development Loan, 1947” (hereinafter called the said loan) :
And whereas the sum of four thousand pounds (£4,000) has not yet been raised, and it is expedient to vary the determinations in respect of portion thereof amounting to three thousand pounds (£3,000) (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 provision being made for the repayment of the said sum by the establishment of a sinking fund in respect thereof, as specified in clause three of the said Order in Council, the said sum or any part thereof, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the term of twenty-five (25) years, as specified in clause one of the said Order in Council.
T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(T. 49/363/6.)

1481
Constitution of Rural Fire District
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
H. F. O'LEARY
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1948
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 “Cobb River Rural Fire District”; and doth hereby specify the trees and other plants on 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 November 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 doth hereby prescribe that the said Cobb River Rural Fire District shall be administered by the Commissioner of State Forests for the purposes of the said Act; and doth hereby further declare that this Order in Council shall come into force on the day following publication thereof in the Gazette.
SCHEDULE
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—NELSON CONSERVANCY Cobb River Rural Fire District ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, Takaka County, containing approximately 44,000 acres, situated in Blocks XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XIX, and XX, Waingaro Survey District, Blocks XIII, XIV, and XVII, Takaka Survey District, Blocks II, III, IV, VII, VIII, and XII, Harapaki Survey District, and Blocks I and V, Flora Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Commencing at Mount Cobb, the point of junction of the boundaries of Buller, Collingwood, and Takaka Counties; thence in a north-easterly direction along Collingwood County boundary for a distance of approximately 250 chains; thence in south-westerly and southeasterly directions along the summit of the Lockett Range to Mount Lockett; thence in a north-easterly direction along the summit of a range forming the watershed between the Cobb and the Waingaro Rivers, and along a right line bearing approximately 65° for a distance of approximately 50 chains to the north-western corner of Section 4, Block XIV, Takaka Survey District; thence along the northern boundary of Section 4 aforesaid to Sam's Creek; thence in a northerly direction along Sam's Creek to the south-eastern boundary of Section 1, Block X, Takaka Survey District; thence in a north-easterly direction along that boundary to Rheumatic Creek ; thence in a south-easterly direction along that creek to the left bank of the Takaka River; thence in a south-westerly direction along the left bank of the Takaka River to its source, and by a right line bearing approximately 210° for a distance of approximately 15 chains to a point on the Buller County boundary, approximately 55 chains south-east of Trig. D, Block XII, Harapaki Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction along the Buller County boundary to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 102/5, 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. 12/9/4/8.)
Constitution of Rural Fire District
B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
H. F. O'LEARY
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1948
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 “Hutt Rural Fire District”; and doth hereby specify the trees and other plants on land owned by or vested in the Wellington City Council, and administered pursuant to the Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Act, 1927, and situated 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 November 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 doth hereby constitute the Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Board as the rural fire committee of the Hutt Rural Fire District; and doth hereby prescribe that the said district shall be administered for the purposes of the said Act by the said Board; and doth hereby further declare that this Order in Council shall come into force on the day following publication thereof in the Gazette.