Sept. 15] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2299

Constituting the Forks Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4750)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of September, 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 Forks 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 FORKS RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Otago Land District and the Counties of Lake and Vincent containing 371,000 acres, more or less, and being parts of Lower Wanaka, Lower Hawea, Mid Wanaka, Mid Hawea, Upper Wanaka, Upper Hawea, Mount Pollux, Wilkin, McKerrow, Stafford, Young, Haast, and Hunter Survey Districts, bounded as follows: Commencing at the northernmost point of the boundary of Run 95A at the Hunter River, in Hunter Survey District; thence north-westerly to the summit of the Southern Alps; thence generally south-westerly along the summit of the Southern Alps to the Haast Pass; thence generally westerly and south-westerly along the north-western boundary of Run 98 in the Haast, Young, and Wilkin Survey Districts, to its junction with the boundary of Run 97 at the Wilkin River; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of Run 97 and south-westerly along the north-western and western boundaries of Run 97, being also the boundary of Otago Land District to the southern boundary of Run 97, Mount Pollux Survey District; thence easterly along the southern boundaries of Runs 97 and 96 to and along Albert Burn to Lake Wanaka; thence north-easterly along the north-western shore of the aforesaid lake to the Makarora River; thence easterly across the Makarora River at its junction with Lake Wanaka; thence generally southerly northerly, and again southerly along the eastern shore of the aforesaid lake to the source of the Clutha River; thence generally south-easterly along the northern bank of the Clutha River to its junction with the Hawea River; thence generally north-easterly up the centre of the Hawea River to its source at Lake Hawea; thence generally north-easterly along the western and north-western shores of the aforesaid lake to the mouth of the Hunter River; thence north-easterly along the north-western bank of the aforesaid river to the point of commencement.

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

(Ag. 64/1/211.)

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Constituting the Pahau Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4752)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of September, 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 Pahau 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 PAHAU RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Amuri and Waipara Counties, Canterbury Land District, containing approximately 484,300 acres, commencing at the confluence of the Waiau and Hanmer Rivers; thence in a southerly direction down the centre of the main stream of the said Waiau River to the bridge over that river near Montrose Homestead; thence across that river and south-westerly by the road from the said bridge to the Main Hanmer Road; thence south-easterly by the south-western side of the said Hanmer Main Road to the northern boundary of the Culverden Settlement; thence westerly and southerly along the northern and western boundaries of that settlement and that boundary continued to and along the rabbit fence; thence westerly along the rabbit fence to a point opposite the southernmost extremity of the land in Lot 1, D.P. 3550, (F. W. deG. Browne); thence to and generally northerly and westerly by the western and southern boundaries of the said Lot 1 to the Dove River; thence generally in a south-westerly direction down the centre of the main stream of that river to the centre of the main stream of the Mandamus River and southerly down the centre of the main stream of that river to the centre of the main stream of the Hurunui River; thence generally south-westerly up the centre of the main stream of that river to the centre of the main stream of the Seaward River; thence south-westerly up the centre of the main stream of the said Seaward River to a point on the Dampier Range near Mount Whatno; thence generally north-westerly along the summit of the said Dampier Range and the Snowy Range to a point on the Main Divide near Harpers Pass; thence north-easterly along the said Main Divide to Lewis Pass; thence in a southerly direction along the main stream of the Lewis River and the Boyle River to the Hope River; thence generally easterly along the centre of the main stream of that river and the Waiau River to the confluence of the Waiau and Hanmer Rivers, the place of commencement.

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

(Ag. 64/1/213.)

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Constituting the Hanmer Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4753)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of September, 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 Hanmer 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 HANMER RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Amuri County, Canterbury Land District, containing approximately 313,000 acres, commencing at a point on the Spenser Mountains, this point being at the intersection of a line which runs south-easterly from a point on the south-eastern boundary of the County of Buller and due south of the confluence of the Eight-mile Creek with the Buller River to the northernmost point of Lake Tennyson; thence from the commencing point on the Spenser Mountains aforesaid by a line running south-easterly to the northernmost point of Lake Tennyson aforesaid; thence generally in a southerly direction along the western shores of the said lake and along the centre of the main stream of the Clarence River to the track over Jacks Pass; thence southerly along that track, passing over Jacks Pass, to the Hanmer Plains Main Road, and along that road to the Waiau River; thence westerly up the centre of the main stream of that river and the centre of the main stream of the Hope River to the Boyle River; thence generally northerly up the centre of the main stream of the said Boyle River and the centre of the main stream of the Lewis River to Lewis Pass; thence again generally northerly by the Spenser Mountains to the commencing point.

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

(Ag. 64/1/218.)

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Constituting the Culverden Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4754)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of September, 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 Culverden 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.