Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington this 18th day of January 1956
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
Pursuant to the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto by the way of loan of the whole or any part of the respective amounts specified in that Schedule.
SCHEDULE
Name of Local Authority
Hutt Valley Drainage Board
Palmerston North City Council
Palmerston North City Council
Tararua Electric Power Board
Tauranga Harbour Board
Name of Loan
Sewage Disposal Loan 1954, £850,000
Gasworks Loan 1955
Street Improvement Loan 1952, £154,700
General Purposes Loan 1955, £47,440
Harbour Loan No. 2 1955
Amount of Loan
£
300,000
45,000
30,000
25,000
6,875
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington this 25th day of January 1956
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
Pursuant to the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto by way of loan of the whole or any part of the respective amounts specified in that Schedule.
SCHEDULE
Name of Local Authority
Ashburton Electric Power Board
Banks Peninsula Electric Power Board
Northcote Borough Council
Rotorua Borough Council
Rotorua County Council
Name of Loan
Special Loan No. 12 1955, £80,000
Workers' Dwellings Loan 1955
Streets Loan 1955, £115,000
Pensioners' Flats Loan 1955
Reporoa War Memorial Hall Loan 1955
Amount of Loan
£
20,000
5,500
25,000
10,800
7,000
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Constituting the Otama Rabbit District (Notice No. Ag. 6028)
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington this 25th day of January 1956
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCEY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL
Pursuant to the Rabbits Act 1955, 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 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 14 of the Rabbits Act 1955 applies, a rabbit district and appoints that the name of the said rabbit district shall be the Otama 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
BOUNDARIES OF THE OTAMA RABBIT DISTRICT
All that area in the Southland Land District containing 48,000 acres, more or less, inclusive of roads and streams and bounded by a line commencing at a point on the left bank of the Waikaia River due west of the northernmost corner of Section 4, Block VI, Waikaia Survey District; thence due east by a right line across a public road to the northernmost corner of Section 4 aforesaid; thence southerly generally along the eastern boundaries of Sections 4, 4B, and 1, Block VI aforesaid, and again southerly generally along the western boundaries of Block VI and Block XIV, Waikaia Survey District, to its junction with an unsurveyed public road along the watershed between Argyle Burn and the Waikaia River; thence south-westerly generally along the western and northern sides of the said road, passing Trigs. M and J, to its junction with the western boundary of run 529; thence south-westerly along the said boundary to its junction with the Waikaia-Waikaka Road; thence south-easterly generally, across the Waikaia-Waikaka Road, and along its southern side to its junction with an unsurveyed public road along the watershed between the Wendon Stream and the Waikaia River; thence in a south-westerly direction generally, along the north-western side of the said road and the western side of a public road forming the western boundaries of Sections 13 and 12, Block XIV, Wendon Survey District, to the southern boundary of Block XIV aforesaid; thence due east along the southern boundary of the said Block XIV to the western boundary of Block XI, Wendon Survey District; thence due south along the western boundaries of Block XI and Block III, Wendon Survey District, to the south-western corner of the said Block III; thence due east along the southern boundary of the said Block III to the Otama Valley Road; thence due south along the western side of the said road to a point in line with the southern boundary of Kemp Road; thence in a south-easterly direction generally along the southern side of Kemp Road to its junction with Blackhills Road; thence southerly generally along the western side of Blackhills Road to the northernmost corner of Section 3, Block VI, Chatton Survey District; thence south and west along the western and northern boundaries of the said Section 3 and the northern boundary of Section 2, Block VI aforesaid, to the north-western corner thereof; thence due south along the western boundary of Chatton Survey District to the left bank of the Mataura River; thence north-westerly generally along the left bank of the Mataura River to a point opposite the mouth of the Waimea Stream; thence north-westerly by a right line across the Mataura River to a point on the right bank of the said river at its junction with the Waimea Stream; thence northerly generally along the right bank of the Mataura River to its confluence with the Waikaia River; thence due north by a right line to the left bank of the Waikaia River; thence north-easterly generally along the left bank of the Waikaia River to the point of commencement.
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(Ag. 64/1/273)