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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 14

Proclaiming the Borough of Napier to be a City

[L.S.] B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS a petition has been received from the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Napier praying that the said borough be proclaimed a city under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933:

And whereas the population of the said borough is not less than twenty thousand:

And whereas it is desirable that effect should be given to the said petition:

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-four of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, do hereby proclaim the Borough of Napier to be a city as on and from the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 8th day of March, 1950.

W. A. BODKIN, Minister of Internal Affairs.

God Save The King!

Authorizing the Laying-off of Streets, to be Known as Cornelius Street, Silvanus Street, and Wynard Street, Respectively, in the City of Christchurch, Subject to a Condition as to the Building-line

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

Pursuant to section thirty-one of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1948, and section one hundred and twenty-five of 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, doth hereby authorize the Christchurch City Council to permit the laying-off of the proposed streets described in the Schedule hereto at a width for the whole of their lengths 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 the land fronting the said streets within a distance of forty-eight feet from the centre-lines of the said streets or on Lots 73, 108, 109, 10, and 12 of subdivision of the land as shown on the plan referred to in the Schedule hereto, within a distance of twenty-three feet from the northern boundary of the said lots.

SCHEDULE

Those proposed streets in the Canterbury Land District, City of Christchurch, to be known as Cornelius Street, Silvanus Street, and Wynard Street, respectively, containing by admeasurement 4 acres o roods 30 perches, more or less, being part Rural Section 8776. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 128119, 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. 51/3207.)

Constituting the Waimahaka Rabbit District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4823)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of March, 1950

Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE 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 "Waimahaka Rabbit District" and declare that area

of land defined in the Schedule hereto to be a rabbit district under and for the purpose of Part II of the said Act; and doth hereby further declare that the basis on which the Board to be established or 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 WAIMAHAKA RABBIT DISTRICT

All that area in the Southland County, Southland Land District, inclusive of roads, railways, and streams containing by estimation 81,500 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the right bank of the Mataura River due west of the right bank of the Wyndham (Mokoreta) River at its confluence with the Mataura River; thence due east across the Mataura River to the right bank of the Wyndham (Mokoreta) River; thence north-easterly generally along the right bank of the Wyndham (Mokoreta) River to a point in line with the western side of a road intersecting Section 7, Block V, Wyndham Survey District, being the Mataura-Wyndham-Glenham Main Highway; thence north-easterly to and along the north-western side of the said road to and across the Wyndham River; thence south-easterly generally along the right bank of the said river to a point in line with the western boundary of Section 1, Block VII, Wyndham Survey District; thence southerly to and along the western boundary of the said Section 1 to the northern boundary of Block XI, Wyndham Survey District; thence westerly and southerly along the northern and western boundaries of Section 1, Block XI, aforesaid, to the south-western corner thereof; all the aforesaid description being part of the boundaries of the Wyndham Rabbit District as described in N.Z. Gazette 1941, page 3754; thence south-westerly and southerly along the north-western boundaries of Sections 17 and 16 and the western boundary of Section 15, Block XI aforesaid, to and across a public road; thence easterly generally along the southern side of the said public road forming the southern boundaries of Sections 15, 14, 13, and 11, Block XI aforesaid, to the western boundary of Run 74; thence southerly along the western boundary of Run 74 to the northern boundary of the provisional State forest in Block IX, Mokoreta Survey District; thence southerly, westerly again southerly, easterly, again southerly and again easterly along the western, northern, and southern boundaries of the said provisional State forest to the north-western corner of Section 6, Block IX, Mokoreta Survey District; thence southerly along the western boundary of the said Section 6 to the southern boundary of Block IX, aforesaid; thence easterly along the southern boundary of Block IX, aforesaid to the western boundary of Block XII, Mokoreta Survey District; thence southerly along the western boundary of the said Block XII to the northern boundary of the Waikawa Survey District; thence westerly along the northern boundaries of the Waikawa and Otara Survey Districts to the north-western corner of Block V, Otara Survey District; thence southerly along the western boundary of the said Block V to the north-eastern corner of Block X, Toetoes Survey District; thence westerly along the northern boundaries of Blocks X, IX, VIII, and VII, Toetoes Survey District, and those boundaries produced across the Mataura River to the right bank thereof; thence northerly generally along the right bank of the Mataura River to the point of commencement.

T. J. SHERRARD,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

(Ag. 64/1/225.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £16,250 by the Invercargill City Council and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof

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 under the authority of clause sixteen of the Invercargill City Loans Conversion Order, 1934, the Invercargill City Council (hereinafter called the said local authority) stipulated in certain of the securities issued pursuant to such Order for the redemption thereof at the option of the said local authority on such date prior to that specified in the securities as the said local authority might fix in that behalf by notice to be published in the Gazette at least six (6) months before such prior date:

And whereas the said local authority proposes, in exercise of such option, to redeem on the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, certain of such securities amounting in the aggregate to the sum of sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty pounds (£16,250) the date specified in such securities for the redemption thereof being the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five:

And whereas the said local authority being desirous for the purpose of giving effect to such proposal of raising a loan of sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty pounds (£16,250) to be known as “Conversion Redemption Loan No. 7, 1950” (hereinafter called the said loan) has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by such Act, should be given to the raising of the said loan:

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