Feb. 16] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 175

Constitution of Rural Fire District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of February, 1950

Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE 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 “Rangitaiki Rural Fire District”; and doth hereby specify the trees and other plants on land owned by Rangitaiki Development Company, Limited, a company having its registered office at Auckland, 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 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 constitute the directors for the time being of the said Rangitaiki Development Company, Limited, as the rural fire committee of the Rangitaiki Rural Fire District; and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come into force and that the Rangitaiki 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 prescribe that the said district shall be administered for the purposes of the said Act by the Rural Fire Committee hereby constituted.

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SCHEDULE

SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—ROTORUA CONSERVANCY

Rangitaiki Rural Fire District

ALL that area in the South Auckland Land District, Whakatane County, containing approximately 19,000 acres, being Matahina A No. 1B Block, situated in Blocks XI, XII, XV, and XVI, Ruawahia Survey District, Blocks IX, XIII, and XIV, Rangitaiki Lower Survey District, and Blocks I and II, Galatea Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Towards the east by the Rangitaiki River; towards the south-east by the Pokairoa Stream; towards the south-west by part of Runs 54 and 55 (permanent State forest—Gazette, 1931, page 3412); towards the the north-west by Pokohu No. 1 Block and another portion of the Pokohu Block; and towards the north-east by Matahina D and A No. 1C Blocks. As the same is more particularly delineated on Plan No. 39/6, deposited in the Head Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

(F.S. 12/9/2/14.)

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Directing Sale of Railway Land near Kirikopuni Under the Public Works Act, 1928

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of February, 1950

Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Public Works Act, 1928, 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, doth hereby direct the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the public work for which it was taken.

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SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land directed to be sold:—

A. R. P. Being
0 1 8·3 Part Railway land in Proclamation 7164; coloured blue.
11 0 16·5 Part Railway land in Proclamation 6502; coloured sepia.
3 0 24·8 Part Railway land in Proclamation 7563; coloured orange.
1 3 17·6 Part Railway land in Proclamation 7563; coloured orange.
Plan L.O. 10168. (S.O. 35463.)
0 0 35 Part Railway land in Proclamation 7563; coloured orange.
4 1 17 Part Railway land in Proclamation 6502; coloured blue.
0 3 25·6 Part Railway land in Proclamation 6502; coloured sepia.
Plan L.O. 10169. (S.O. 35465.)

All situated in Block VII, Maungau Survey District, Hobson County.

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked and coloured as above-mentioned and deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington.

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

(L.O. 20176/27.)

Imposing Levy on the Owners of Coal-mines Situated Within the Grey Rescue-station Levy Area

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of February, 1950

Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by section six, subsection four, of the Coal-mines Amendment Act, 1936, it is provided that every rescue-station established in accordance with section six of the said Act shall be established in respect of an area to be defined by the Minister of Mines by notice published in the Gazette:

And whereas by section six, subsection five, of the said Act, it is provided that for the purpose of recouping the cost of the establishment and maintenance of any such rescue-station, the Governor-General, by Order in Council, may from time to time impose levies on the owners of coal-mines situated within the area defined in respect of such rescue-station, not exceeding in respect of any mine for any year a levy computed at the rate of one penny for every ton or part of a ton of marketable coal raised from the mine during the preceding year ended on the thirty-first day of December:

And whereas the Minister of Mines, by notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, defined an area in respect of which a rescue-station might be established:

And whereas the Minister of Mines, by notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty, amended the boundaries of such area:

And whereas the Minister of Mines has established a rescue-station (hereinafter called the Grey Rescue-station) in respect of the coal-mining area defined in the said notices:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said section six, subsection five, 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, doth hereby, for the purpose of recouping the cost of the establishment and maintenance of the Grey Rescue-station, impose on the owners of coal-mines situated within the area defined in the said notices in respect of each mine within the said area a levy computed at the rate of one penny for every ton or part of a ton of marketable coal raised from the mine during the year ended on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine.

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

(Mines 8/58/4.)

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Imposing Levy on the Owners of Coal-mines Situated Within the Ohai Rescue-station Levy Area

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 7th day of February, 1950

Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by section six, subsection four, of the Coal-mines Amendment Act, 1936, it is provided that every rescue-station established in accordance with section six of the said Act shall be established in respect of an area to be defined by the Minister of Mines by notice published in the Gazette:

And whereas by section six, subsection five, of the said Act, it is provided that for the purpose of recouping the cost of the establishment and maintenance of any such rescue-station, the Governor-General, by Order in Council, may from time to time impose levies on the owners of coal-mines situated within the area defined in respect of such rescue-station, not exceeding in respect of any mine for any year a levy computed at the rate of one penny for every ton or part of a ton of marketable coal raised from the mine during the preceding year ended on the thirty-first day of December:

And whereas the Minister of Mines, by notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty, defined an area in respect of which a rescue-station might be established:

And whereas the Minister of Mines has established a rescue-station (hereinafter called the Ohai Rescue-station) in respect of the coal-mining area defined in the said notice:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said section six, subsection five, 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, doth hereby, for the purpose of recouping the cost of the establishment and maintenance of the Ohai Rescue-station, impose on the owners of coal-mines situated within the area defined in the said notice in respect of each mine within the said area a levy computed at the rate of one penny for every ton or part of a ton of marketable coal raised from the mine during the year ended on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine.

T. J. SHERRARD
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(Mines 8/58/12.)