7 FEB.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 173

Taking Land for Public Purposes at Rarotonga (Cook Islands)

FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of January 1952
Present:
THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

Pursuant to section 357 of the Cook Islands Act 1915, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby take the lands described in the Schedule hereto for the following public purpose—namely, a public works site.

SCHEDULE

1. All that parcel of land situated in the district of Arorangi in the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, containing three acres and nine perches (3 a. Or. 9 p.), be the same a little more or less, being part of the land named by the Native Land Court Kiri Section 88E, Arorangi.
2. All that parcel of land situate in the district of Arorangi in the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, containing six acres and thirty-three perches (6 a. Or. 33 p.), be the same a little more or less, being part of the land named by the Native Land Court Kiri Section 88E, Arorangi.
   The said parcels of land altogether comprising nine acres one rood two perches (9 a. Ir. 2 p.), be the same a little more or less, as the same are delineated and coloured blue and yellow respectively on the plan signed by the Deputy Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands at Rarotonga under No. 51.

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

Consenting to the Raising of the Balance (£59,500) of the Taupo Town Board’s Loan of £82,000 and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof

FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of January 1952
Present:
THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Taupo Town Board (hereinafter called the said local authority) being desirous of raising a loan of eighty-two thousand pounds (£82,000) to be known as “Hydro-electric Power Supply Loan 1948” authorized by a poll of the ratepayers taken on the 6th day of November 1948, for the purpose of establishing an electric-power supply system for the Taupo Town District including the acquisition of land and the providing of water power stations, roads, buildings, dams, electric plant, distribution lines, services, meters, advances to consumers, trading-stocks, and other incidental works, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926 (hereinafter called the said Act): And whereas by Order in Council made on the 25th day of May 1949, consent was given to the raising of portion of the said loan amounting to two thousand five hundred pounds (£2,500): And whereas by Order in Council made on the 13th day of March 1951 consent was given to the raising of a further portion of the said loan amounting to twenty thousand pounds (£20,000): And whereas the said local authority is arranging to raise the balance of the said loan amounting to fifty-nine thousand five hundred pounds (£59,500) (hereinafter called the said sum) 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 sum:

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 said local authority of the said sum for the said purpose up to the amount of fifty-nine thousand five hundred pounds (£59,500) and in giving such consent hereby determines as follows:

(1) The term for which the said sum or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed twenty-five (25) years.
(2) The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the said sum or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding three pounds five shillings (£3 5s.) per centum per annum.
(3) The said sum shall be free of principal repayments during the first two years from the date of the borrowing thereof.
(4) Thereafter the said sum, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the balance of the term amounting to twenty-three (23) years.
(5) The payment of interest for the first two years and thereafter the payment of the instalments of principal and interest shall be made in New Zealand.

(6) No interest after the first two years and no instalments of principal and interest shall be paid out of loan-moneys.
(7) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said sum or any part thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.
(8) 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.

Altering and Redefining the Boundaries of the Opihi Rabbit District (Notice No. Ag. 5207)

FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 4th day of February 1952
Present:
THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING 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, made on the recommendation of the Rabbit Destruction Council, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby—

(1) Alters and redefines the boundaries of the Opihi Rabbit District by adding thereto the area of land the boundaries of which are described in the First Schedule hereto.
(2) Declares that the boundaries of the said district as so altered and redefined shall be those set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE
BOUNDARIES OF THE AREA TO BE ADDED TO THE OPIHI RABBIT DISTRICT
All that area in the County of Levels, Canterbury Land District, containing approximately 22,200 acres, commencing at a point on the south-western boundary of the Opihi Rabbit District (N.Z. Gazette No. 86, 30 September 1943, pages 1157-8), the said point being at the northernmost corner of the Pleasant Point Town District; thence generally westerly and southerly along the northern and western boundaries of the said town district, to and westerly along the Pleasant Point to Cave Main Road, to and generally northerly along the boundary of the Albury Rabbit District (N.Z. Gazette No. 43, 31 May 1951, pages 773-4) to the boundary of the Opihi Rabbit District aforesaid, thence generally south-casterly along that boundary to the northernmost corner of Pleasant Point Town District, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE
BOUNDARIES OF THE OPIHI RABBIT DISTRICT
All that area in the Counties of Mackenzie, Geraldine, and Levels, of the Canterbury Land District, containing 90,700 acres, more or less, bounded by a line commencing at a point on the centre-line of Gudex Road at its intersection with the centre-line of Cattle Valley Road, Block V, Opihi Survey District; thence proceeding in a north-easterly direction along the said centre-line of Gudex Road to and across a bridge over the Opuha River at the western boundary of Rural Section 27300; thence south-easterly generally along the Beautiful Valley Road to its junction with a public road at the south-western boundary of R.S. 19980; thence along that road to its junction with Howe’s Road; thence along that road to its junction with Gapes Valley Road; thence along that road to its junction with Patrick Road; thence along that road to its junction with a public road on the western boundary of R.S. 15818; thence southerly along the said public road to its junction with Hilton Road; thence south-westerly along that road to its junction with Beattie’s Road; thence south-easterly generally along that road to its junction with Toomeys Road; thence along that road to its junction with Chapman’s Road and a public road; thence southerly along the said public road to its junction with Boundary Road; thence along that road to its junction with a public road in the centre portion of R.S. 7160; thence southerly along the said public road to its junction with a road at the southernmost corner of R.S. 36396; and along that road to the left bank of the Hae Hae Te Moana River at the south-western corner of R.S. 11474; thence southerly generally by the said left bank of that river and the left bank of the Temuka River to the centre of the Main South Road; thence south-westerly generally along that road to its junction with Point Temuka Road; thence along that road to the south-eastern boundary of the Pleasant Point Town District; thence north-westerly generally along that boundary to a public road at the south-western corner of R.S. 7406; thence north-westerly along that road to the northernmost corner of the said Pleasant Point Town District; thence generally westerly and southerly along the northern and western boundaries of the said town district, to and westerly along the Pleasant Point to Cave Main Road, to and generally northerly along the boundary of the Albury Rabbit District (N.Z. Gazette No. 43, 31 May 1951, pages 773-4), to and across the Raincliff Bridge (near the confluence of the Rivers Opihi and Opuha), to and easterly along the road intersecting R.S.s 22226 and 36592, to and generally northerly along Burke’s Pass Road, to and northerly along the centre-line of Gudex Road to its intersection with the centre-line of Cattle Valley Road, the point of commencement.

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

(Ag. 64/1/145)