Oct. 25] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1599

Constituting the Otapiri Rabbit District (Notice No. Ag. 5158)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of October 1951

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 and to section 29 of the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act 1947, His Excellency the Governor-General, at the request of the Minister of Agriculture, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby constitutes and declares the area of land, the boundaries of which are described in the Schedule hereto, being an area to which subsection (1) of section 30 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 applies, a rabbit district, and appoints that the name of the said rabbit district shall be the Otapiri Rabbit District, and orders 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.

SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF THE OTAPIRI RABBIT DISTRICT

ALL that area of land situated in the Southland Land District, Southland County, and the Hokonui Survey District containing by estimation 38,400 acres, more or less, inclusive of roads and streams, and bounded as follows: commencing at a point on the south-western boundary of Section 484, Blocks XXV and XXXV, and its intersection with the north-western side of a public road; thence south-easterly generally along the south-western, western, and southern boundaries of the said Section 484 to the south-eastern corner thereof; thence south-easterly generally along the western and south-western boundaries of Section 354, Blocks XXXVI and XXXVII, to the south-eastern corner thereof; thence south-easterly generally across a public road to and along the south-western boundaries of the north-eastern part of Run 525 to the Otamita Stream; thence easterly and southerly generally along the Otamita Stream to a point in line with the northern boundary of Section 267, Block XLVII; thence westerly along the northern boundary of the said Section 267 to the north-western corner thereof; thence southerly along the western boundaries of the said Section 267 and Section 253, Block LXIV, to the northern boundary of Forest Hill Hundred; thence westerly along the northern boundary of Forest Hill Hundred to the easternmost corner of Section 3s, Lora Settlement; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 3s to and across a public road; thence south-westerly along the north-western side of the said public road to the easternmost corner of Section 1s, Lora Settlement; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 1s to the northernmost corner thereof; thence south-westerly along the north-western boundaries of Sections 1s and 2s, Lora Settlement, to the north-eastern corner of Section 915A, Block LXII; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 915A to and across McRaes Road; thence south-westerly generally along the north-western side of McRaes Road to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Section 830, Block LXI; thence south-easterly to and along the south-western boundary of the said Section 830 to the northern boundary of Forest Hill Hundred; thence westerly along the northern boundary of Forest Hill Hundred to the easternmost corner of Section 820, Block LXI; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 820 across a public road and along the north-eastern boundary of Section 814, Block LXI, to the Otapiri Stream; thence northerly generally along the right bank of the Otapiri Stream to the north-eastern boundary of Section 788, Block XLIV; thence north-westerly and north-easterly generally along the north-eastern and north-western boundaries of the said Section 788, the north-eastern boundaries of the southern part of Section 430 and Section 715, Block XLIV, and the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Section 717, Block XXXIV, the south-eastern boundaries of Section 426 and Section 658, Block XXXIV, to a public road; thence north-westerly generally along the southern side of the said public road to the south-eastern boundary of Section 711, Block XXXIV; thence north-easterly to and along the south-eastern boundary of the said Section 711 to the easternmost corner thereof; thence north-westerly along the north-eastern boundary of Lot 3 on a plan numbered 309 and deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Invercargill, to and across the Winton Creek; thence north-easterly generally along the right bank of the Winton Creek to and across a public road; thence north-easterly generally along the north-western side of the said public road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section 577, Block XXIV, passing through Section 795, Block XXXV, and forming the south-eastern boundary of Section 794, Block XXV, to the point of commencement.

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

(Ag. 64/1/239)

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 17th day of October 1951

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the several local authorities enumerated in the Schedule hereto, being desirous of raising the respective loans stated opposite their names therein, have respectively complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926 (hereinafter called the said Act), and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loans:

Now, therefore, pursuant to section 11 of the said Act, as set out in section 29 of the Finance Act 1932 (No. 2), His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby consents to the raising in New Zealand by the respective local authorities mentioned in the first column of the said Schedule of the respective loans set out in the second column of the said Schedule, up to the respective amounts specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and in giving such consent hereby determines as follows:—

(1) The terms for which the said loans or any parts thereof may be raised shall be the respective terms (in years) stated in the fourth column of the said Schedule.

(2) The rates of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loans or any parts thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding the respective rates per centum per annum stated in the fifth column of the said Schedule.

(3) The said local authorities shall, before raising the said respective loans or any parts thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by establishing sinking funds under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable in any respective case, and shall thereafter make payments to such sinking funds at intervals of not more than one year, at a rate or rates per centum which shall be not less than the respective rates stated in the sixth column of the said Schedule, such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said respective loans for the time being so borrowed and not repaid, the first such payment in each respective case to be made not later than one year after the first day from which interest to the lender or lenders is computed on any loan or part thereof so raised.

(4) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of the said loans shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(5) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said respective loans or any parts thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.

(6) The payment of interest and repayment of principal in respect of the said loans shall be made in New Zealand.

(7) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

SCHEDULE

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

(T. 40/416/6)