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advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby authorize
the Blenheim Borough Council to permit the laying-off of the proposed
street described in the Schedule hereto at a width for part of its length
of less than sixty-six feet but not less than fifty feet, subject to the
condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time
be erected on Lots 1 to 4 (inclusive) and Lots 6 to 9 (inclusive)
of a subdivision of the land fronting the said proposed street (as shown
on the plan marked P.W.D. 130895, referred to in the Schedule
hereto) within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line
of the said proposed street.

SCHEDULE

THAT proposed street in the Marlborough Land District, Borough of
Blenheim, to be known as Barratt Street, containing by admeasurement
1 rood 36·13 perches, more or less, being Lot 5, D.P. 1714, and
being part Section 2, District of Omaka. As the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 130895, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
coloured red.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 51/3360.)

Constituting the Ashley Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4821)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of
March, 1950
Present :
THE HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS by section thirty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928,
it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in
Council, on petition in that behalf signed by a majority of the
persons qualified to be enrolled on the ratepayers' list for any
proposed district, constitute and declare any area of land of not less
than one thousand acres a rabbit district under and for the
purposes of Part II of the said Act :
And whereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section
thirty of the said Act, a petition has been received praying that the
area of land described in the Schedule hereto be constituted and
declared a rabbit district under and for the purposes of Part II
of the said Act :
And whereas the said petition is signed by a majority of the
persons in the said area of land qualified to be enrolled on the
ratepayers' list for the said proposed district, and it is deemed
expedient to give effect to the prayer of the petitioners accordingly :
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, His Excellency the
Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute by the specific
name of the “Ashley Rabbit District” and declare that area
of land defined in the Schedule hereto to be a rabbit district under
and for the purposes of Part II of the said Act; and doth hereby
further declare that the basis on which the Board to be established
for the said district shall first levy its general rate shall be on the
basis of the acreage of the rateable property in the said district.

SCHEDULE

BOUNDARIES OF THE ASHLEY RABBIT DISTRICT
ALL that area in the Counties of Ashley and Kowai, Canterbury
Land District, containing approximately 200,300 acres, being the
whole of the Ashley County as described in N.Z. Gazette No. 180,
20th December 1917, page 4538, and that portion of the Kowai
County bounded by a line commencing at a point in the middle of
the main stream of the River Waipara opposite the stream forming
the eastern boundaries of Rural Sections 34256 and 34257, Block II,
Grey Survey District ; thence generally southerly by the western
boundary of the Kowai Rabbit District as described in N.Z. Gazette
No. 89, 14th October, 1943, page 1204, to its junction with the
boundary of the County of Kowai as described in N.Z. Gazette
No. 180, 20th December, 1917, page 4538; thence generally in a
northerly direction by the said boundary of the County of Kowai
to the middle of the main stream of the south branch of the Waipara
River; thence generally easterly along the middle of the main
stream of that river to the point of commencement.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(Ag. 64/1/224.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £600 by the Otaki Borough
Council and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of
February, 1950
Present :
THE HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the Otaki Borough Council (hereinafter called the
said local authority) proposes, pursuant to the provisions of
section three of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1928, to borrow
the sum of six hundred pounds (£600) by a loan to be known as

“Main Highways Loan, 1950” (hereinafter called the said loan),
for the purpose of providing the Council's share of the cost of constructing footpaths on portions of the Levin-Paekakariki State Highway :
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 by the said local authority of the said loan for the said purpose up to the amount of six hundred pounds (£600), 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 be six (6) 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 a rate exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum.
(3) The said loan, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual instalments extending over the term as determined in (1) above.
(4) 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. 49/345.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £1,500 by the Geraldine Borough Council and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of February, 1950
Present :
THE HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL
WHEREAS the Geraldine 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 a loan of one thousand five hundred pounds (£1,500) to be known as “Waterworks Loan, 1949” (hereinafter called the said loan) to provide waterworks for the purpose of providing a supply of wholesome water for the Borough of Geraldine :
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 one thousand five hundred pounds (£1,500), 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 or rates exceeding three pounds two shillings and sixpence (£3 2s. 6d.) per centum per annum.
(3) The said local authority shall, before raising the said loan or any part thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by establishing a sinking fund under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable and shall thereafter make payments to such sinking fund at intervals of not more than one year at a rate or rates per centum which shall be not less than five pounds seven shillings and sixpence (£5 7s. 6d.) such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said loan for the time being so borrowed and not repaid, the first such payment to be made not later than one year after the first day from which interest to the lender or lenders is computed on the said loan or any part thereof so raised.

(4) The payment of interest and the repayment of principal in respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.
(5) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of the said loan shall be paid out of loan-moneys.
(6) 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.
(7) 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. 49/110.)