586

chains, more or less; as the same is more particularly
delineated on plan P.W.D. 137033, deposited in the office of
the Main Highways Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured
green.

HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 17

Outram-Berwick.—All that road or portion of road in the
Taieri County, known as Huntley Road, commencing at its
junction with the Allanton-Outram Main Highway at Outram,
at the north-eastern corner of Section 7, Block I, West Taieri
Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a south-
westerly direction, and terminating at the western bank of the
Waipori River at Berwick, being a distance of 9 miles, more
or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan
P.W.D. 139742, deposited in the office of the Main Highways
Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

(M.H. 62/19)

Consenting to Stopping Road in Block II, Rangiriri Survey
District, Raglan County

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of
April 1953
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 149 of the Public Works Act 1928,
His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby consents
to the Raglan County Council stopping the portions of road
described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road permitted to be
stopped:—

A. R. P.
0 0 20 Road adjoining part Lot 8, D.P. 23928, being part
Allotment 35, Parish of Whangape; and road
adjoining part Lot 5, D.P. 23928, being part
Allotment 35, Parish of Whangape; coloured
sepia, edged sepia.
0 0 14·7 Part Lot 8, D.P. 23928, being part Allotment 35,
Parish of Whangape; road adjoining parts Lot
8, D.P. 23928, being part Allotment 35, Parish of
Whangape; and road adjoining part Lot 5, D.P.
23928, being part Allotment 35, Parish of
Whangape; coloured blue, edged blue.

Situated in Block II, Rangiriri Survey District (Auckland
R.D.). (S.O. 33786.)

In the South Auckland Land District; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 132616,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington,
and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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

(P.W. 34/1457; D.O. 18/37/0)

Investment of £4,000 of the Lyttelton Harbour Board Funds

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 24th day of
March 1953
Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 53 of the Harbours Act 1950, His
Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council hereby authorizes
the Lyttelton Harbour Board to invest the sum of four
thousand pounds (£4,000) of the Board's funds in the Ash-
burton Borough Council Dwelling, Purchase, and Conversion
Loan 1952, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per centum per
annum.

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

Constitution of Rural Fire District

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of
April 1953
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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, hereby con-
stitutes and declares the area described in the Schedule
hereto to be a rural fire district, to be known as the ‘‘ Esk
Rural Fire District ’’; and hereby specifies the trees and
other plants on State forest land in the said area as the
property for the protection of which the district is constituted;

and hereby specifies the period between the 1st day of
October in any one year and the 30th day of April in the
following year (both days inclusive) as a closed fire season
in the said district; and hereby declares that this Order in
Council shall come into force and that the Esk Rural Fire
District shall become a rural fire district on the day following
publication of this Order in Council in the Gazette; and
hereby prescribes that the said Esk Rural Fire District shall
be administered for the purposes of the said Act by the
Minister of Forests.

SCHEDULE

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT—WELLINGTON CONSERVANCY
Esk Rural Fire District

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, Hawke's
Bay County, containing approximately 28,500 acres, situated
in Blocks V, VI, VII, IX, X, XIII, and XIV, Maungaharuru
Survey District, and described generally as follows: Com-
mencing at a point on the Taupo-Napier State Highway, being
the south-eastern corner of part of Lot 1 on D.P. 3831; thence
in the north-easterly direction generally along the south-eastern
boundary of the aforesaid part Lot 1 to its easternmost
corner; thence by a right line passing through Trig. Station
JI to the south-western boundary of part of Lot 2 on D.P.
3832; thence in a south-easterly and north-easterly direction
generally along the boundary of the aforesaid part Lot 2 to
the northernmost corner of its eastern portion; thence by a
right line bearing 41° 00' to the right bank of the Esk
River; thence in a southerly direction generally along the
right bank of that river to the left bank of the Otakowai
Stream; thence in a westerly direction along the left bank of
that stream, the southern boundary of part of Taupo Road,
Rural Section 9, to and across the Taupo-Napier State High-
way; thence along the southern boundaries of part of Lot 1
on D.P. 3955, part of Taupo Road, Rural Section 20, Section 93,
Block XIII, Maungaharuru Survey District, and Block 108,
Puketapu Crown Grant District, to the left bank of the
Waipuna Stream; thence in a northerly direction generally
along the left banks of the Waipuna and Waikingakitangata
Streams to the southernmost corner of Block 84, Puketapu
Crown Grant District; thence along the western boundary of
the said Block 84 and the crossing of a public road to the
Taupo-Napier State Highway and thence by the western side
of that highway to the point of commencement. As the same
is more particularly delineated on plan No. 65/8, 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. 12/9/3/18)

Conferring the Powers of a Tribal Executive Upon a Tribal
Committee

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of
March 1953
Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 7 of the Maori Purposes Act 1948,
His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby
confers upon the Kaikoura Tribal Committee all of the powers
conferred upon a Tribal Executive by the Maori Social and
Economic Advancement Act 1945, including the power to make
by-laws, notwithstanding the provisions of section 19 or section
20 of that Act.

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

(M.A. 35/57/1)

Varying the Determinations in Respect of Portion (£15,000)
of the Wairoa Borough Council’s Loan of £25,000

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of
March 1953
Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the 3rd day of
December 1952 and subject to the determinations as
to borrowing and repayment therein set out, consent was
given to the raising in New Zealand by the Wairoa Borough
Council (hereinafter called the said local authority) of a loan
of twenty-five thousand pounds (£25,000) to be known as
‘‘ Sewerage Additional Loan 1952 ’’;

And whereas an amount of fifteen thousand pounds
(£15,000) (hereinafter called the said sum) has not yet been
raised and it is expedient to cancel the determinations aforesaid
in respect of the said sum and make new determinations in
lieu thereof;