NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 154

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Vice Regal

Departure of the Governor-General Overseas and Assumption of Office by the Administrator of the Government

His Excellency the Governor-General, the Most Reverend Sir Paul Reeves, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., accompanied by Her Excellency Lady Reeves, departed from Auckland at 3.45 p.m. on Wednesday, 7 September for a three day official visit to Singapore.

Thereafter Their Excellencies will then travel on to Britain for a private visit in order to take mid-term leave from the Vice Regal Office. Their Excellencies will return to New Zealand on Wednesday, 12 October.

Following the departure of His Excellency, the Chief Justice of New Zealand, the Right Honourable Sir Ronald Davison, G.B.E., C.M.G., has assumed the office of the Administrator of the Government in accordance with clause XII of the Letters Patent constituting the office of Governor-General.

PAUL CANHAM, Official Secretary.

Government House, Wellington.
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Government Notices

Agriculture and Fisheries

Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967

Agricultural Pests Destruction (Union of Districts to Form Central North Island Pest Destruction District) Order 1988

PAUL REEVES, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At Wellington this 29th day of August 1988

Present:
The Right Hon. David Lange presiding in Council

Pursuant to sections 23 (1) and 26 (1) of the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.

Order

1. Title and commencement—(1) This order may be cited as the Agricultural Pests Destruction (Union of Districts to Form Central North Island Pest Destruction District) Order 1988.

(2) This order shall come into force on the 28th day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

2. Union of districts—The Central Bay of Plenty, Central King Country, and Rotorua - Taupo Pest Destruction Districts are hereby declared to be united and to form one district to be called the Central North Island Pest Destruction District.

3. Boundaries of united district—The boundaries of the Central North Island Pest Destruction District shall be the outer boundaries of those areas of land referred to in the following orders:

(a) The Union of the Pongakawa and Te Puke Pest Destruction Districts Order 1977 (Gazette, 1977, Vol. II, page 1265);

(b) The Union of Merinaga - Tokoroa, Hunua and Ohura North Pest Destruction Districts Order 1974 (Gazette, 1974, Vol. I, page 554);

(c) The Union of Tokoroa, Taupo, Ngakuru, Kaharoa and Reporoa Pest Destruction Districts Order 1974 (Gazette, 1974, Vol. II, page 1155), as amended by—

(i) The Redefinition of the Boundaries of the East Waikato Pest Destruction District Order 1981 (Gazette, 1981, Vol. I, page 337); and

(ii) The Redefinition of the Boundaries of the Central Bay of Plenty Pest Destruction District Order 1981 (Gazette, 1981, Vol. I, page 338).

4. Basis on which general rates are first to be levied—The basis on which the general rates are first to be levied in the united district shall be on the basis of the area of land occupied by the ratepayer.

MARIE SHROFF, Clerk of the Executive Council.