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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 11

Constituting the Omarama Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4602)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1949

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 Omarama 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.

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SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF THE OMARAMA RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by estimation 211,750 acres, situated in Ahuriri, Benmore, Hawkdun, Gāla, and Turnagain Survey Districts, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the centre of the Waitaki River at its confluence with the Otematata River in Gāla Survey District; and proceeding thence in a north-westerly direction along the centre-line of the Waitaki River to its confluence with the Ahuriri River in Benmore Survey District; thence generally in a westerly direction along the centre-line of the Ahuriri River to a point therein in prolongation of the western boundary of Run No. 201B in Ahuriri Survey District; thence in a southerly direction by a right line to the north-western boundary of Run 201B aforesaid; thence in a southerly direction along the western boundaries of Run 201B, Run 201C, and Run 201E in Hawkdun Survey District, to the south-western corner of Run 201E aforesaid; thence in an easterly direction along the southern boundary of Run 201E to and across a public road at Omarama Saddle; thence in a south-westerly direction along the south-eastern side of the said public road to the southern boundary of Run 201F in Hawkdun Survey District; thence in an easterly direction along the south-eastern boundary of Run 201F to the south-eastern corner thereof; thence in an easterly direction by a right line to Trig. Station E on the west boundary of Run 322D; thence in a southerly direction along the western boundary of Run 322D to the south-western corner thereof in Gāla Survey District; thence in a north-easterly direction along the south-eastern boundary of Run 322D to the western boundary of Run 160E; thence in a southerly direction along the western boundary of Run 160E to the south-western corner thereof in Gāla Survey District; thence generally in a southerly, easterly, and northerly direction down the western branch of the Otematata River (Clear Stream) which forms the western, southern, and eastern boundaries of Run 160F in Gāla and Turnagain Survey Districts, to the confluence of the aforesaid western branch with the Otematata River; thence in a northerly direction along the centre-line of the Otematata River to the point of commencement.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Constituting the Otekaike Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4603)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1949

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 Otekaike 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.

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SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF THE OTEKAIKE RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Otago Land District containing approximately 134,000 acres, and being parts of Kurow, Domet, Maruwenua, Kyeburn, and Kakanui Survey Districts, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the junction of the Awakino River with the Waitaki River in Kurow Survey District; thence south-easterly along the centre of the Main Stream of the Waitaki River to the junction of the Maruwenua River; thence south-westerly up the centre of the main stream of the Maruwenua River to the junction of its north and south branches; thence south-westerly up the centre of the south branch of the Maruwenua River to the western boundary of Section 6, Block XVI, Maruwenua Survey District; thence northerly along that boundary to Trig. DD; thence westerly and south-westerly along the southern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 2, Block XI, Domet Survey District; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundaries of Section 1, Block II, Section 1, Block I, and Section 1, Block VIII, Kakanui Survey District, and Section 1, Block XIV, Kyeburn Survey District; thence north-westerly along the western boundaries of Section 1, Block XIV, and Section 1, Block XIII, to Mount Nobbler; thence generally northerly along the western boundary of Run 510 to Dansey Pass; thence generally northerly along the western boundaries of Runs 17A, 28E, and 28A to Mount Domet; thence north-westerly along the south-western boundaries of Runs 28 and 2 of 23; thence generally north-easterly along the north-western boundary of Run 2 of 23 to its northern boundary; thence down the centre of the Awakino River to the point of commencement.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Constitution of Rural Fire District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1949

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 “Waimakariri Rural Fire District”; and doth hereby specify the trees and other plants on lands vested in the North Canterbury Catchment Board in the said area as the property for the protection of which the district is constituted; and doth hereby further specify the period between the first day of October 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 declare that this Order in Council shall come into force and that the Waimakariri Rural Fire District shall become a rural fire district on the day following publication of this Order in Council in the Gazette; and doth hereby constitute the North Canterbury Catchment Board as the rural fire committee of the Waimakakariri Rural Fire District; and doth hereby prescribe that the said district shall be administered for the purposes of the said Act by the North Canterbury Catchment Board.

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SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CANTERBURY CONSERVANCY

Waimakariri Rural Fire District

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, Oxford, Eyre, Malvern, Paparua, and Waimairi Counties, containing approximately 53,000 acres, situated in Hawkins, Rolleston, Mairaki, Rangiora, and Christchurch Survey Districts, and bounded generally as follows: Commencing at the north-eastern corner of Rural Section 9608, Block XVI, Mairaki Survey District; thence proceeding in a northerly direction to the northern side of Eyreton Road South; thence easterly along the northern sides of Eyreton Road South aforesaid, Dixon's Road, Eyreton-Kaiapoi Main Road, Maber's Road, the western side of the road forming the western boundary of Rural Sections 820, 850, 2380, the northern side of Greig's Drain Road, and the northern side of the road adjoining parts of Rural Sections 809 and 801 to its junction with the Main North Road at the eastern corner of Rural Section 801 aforesaid; thence northerly along the western side of the Main North Road to the Kaikainui Stream; thence north-easterly by that stream to the eastern boundary of the Main North Railway land; thence south-westerly along that boundary to the south-western side of Marshland Road; thence north-westerly along the said side of that road to its intersection with the south-eastern side of the Main North Road at Chaney's; thence south-westerly along the said south-eastern side of that road to the north-western corner of Rural Section 1463; thence across the Main North Road and north-easterly along the north-western side of a road to Dickey's Road; thence north-westerly along the south-western side of that road to the south-eastern side of the road forming the north-western boundary of Rural Section 837; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern sides of the last-mentioned road, Waimakariri Road, Hack's Road, Harewood Road, and Sinclair's Road to the junction with the Yaldhurst and the Lower Waimakariri Roads; thence north-westerly along the south-western side of the Lower Waimakariri Road to a point due south of Trig. Station 55M in Block III, Hawkins Survey District; thence northerly along a right line to the said trig. station; thence north-easterly to the left bank of the Waimakariri River to a point on a right line between the said trig. station and the westernmost corner of Rural Section 32080; thence easterly along the left bank of the said river to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of Rural Section 29684 in Block IV, Rolleston Survey District; thence north-easterly along a right line to the said south-eastern boundary, and along that boundary, along a right line from the eastern corner of Rural Section 29684 aforesaid to the southern corner of Rural Section 32831, and along the south-eastern boundaries of Rural Sections 32831 and 32744; thence westerly along the northern boundary of Rural Section 32744 aforesaid and northerly along the eastern boundaries of Rural Sections 32744 and 9608 to the South Eyreton Road, the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 143/20, 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. 12/9/6/8.)