Jan. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 15

rities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the loans
set out in column B therein:
And whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent
of the Governor in Council should issue:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby consent to the borrowing of the loans herein-
before mentioned by the several local authorities set out in
the Schedule hereto; and it is hereby declared that this
Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf
of the Appropriation Act, 1915, and shall operate accord-
ingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the raising
of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£
Dargaville Borough Council .. .. .. 4,000
" .. .. .. 8,000
" .. .. .. 2,500
" .. .. .. 1,899
Gisborne Borough Council .. .. .. 30,000
" .. .. .. 50,000
" .. .. .. 10,000
" .. .. .. 3,000
Mount Eden Borough Council .. .. .. 11,900
Napier Borough Council .. .. .. 2,000
Onehunga Borough Council .. .. .. 23,350
" .. .. .. 5,400
" .. .. .. 2,780
Palmerston North Borough Council .. .. 10,000
Taihape Borough Council .. .. .. 3,500
Tauranga Borough Council .. .. .. 4,300
Waikohu County Council .. .. .. 9,500
Wanganui Borough Council .. .. .. 30,000

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities
from the State Advances Department.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day
of January, 1916.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-six, subsection one, of
the Appropriation Act, 1915, it is provided that,
notwithstanding any Act to the contrary, it shall not be
lawful or competent for any local authority or for any Harbour
Board, during the present war with Germany, to borrow or
contract to borrow any money (otherwise than by way of
bank overdraft within the limits of its powers, if any, in that
behalf) whether from the State Advances Office or from any
other source whatever, and whether in pursuance of a special
Act or under any other authority whatever, without the
precedent consent of the Governor in Council:
And whereas application has been made for the consent
of the Governor in Council to enable the several local autho-
rities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the loans
set out in column B therein from the State Advances Office:
And whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent
of the Governor in Council should issue:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby consent to the borrowing from the State Advances
Department of the loans hereinbefore mentioned by the several
local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto; and it is
hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the
provisions in that behalf of the Appropriation Act, 1915, and
shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in
Council to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£
Ekatahuna County Council .. .. .. 140
Tauranga County Council .. .. .. 600
Waitomo County Council .. .. .. 115
" .. .. .. 55

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Crescent Street, in the Borough of Richmond, exempted from
the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908,
subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day
of January, 1916.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred
and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is,
inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in
any case where the local authority having control of any
road or street by resolution declares that the provisions
thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any
specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by
the Governor in Council:
And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and
seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is provided that
such approval may be either absolute or subject to such
conditions with respect to the building-line as the Governor,
by Order in Council, thinks fit to impose:
And whereas the Richmond Borough Council, the local
authority having control of the street described in the Schedule
hereto, has passed the following resolution—viz., “That the
Richmond Borough Council declares that the provisions of
section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act,
1908, shall not apply to that part of Crescent Street between
Waverley Street and Oxford Street”:
And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution
should be approved, subject to the condition hereinafter
mentioned:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and act-
ing by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the
said resolution, subject to the condition that no building or
part of a building shall at any time be erected on either side
of the said street within a distance of thirty-three feet from
the centre-line of the said street.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that street in the Nelson Land District, Borough of
Richmond, known as Crescent Street, commencing at its
junction with Oxford Street, adjoining or passing through
Town Section 26, and terminating at its junction with
Waverley Street. As the said street is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38492, deposited in
the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in
the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured
green.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day
of January, 1916.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty of the
Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that no
instrument of alienation of Native land by way of mort-
gage or charge, other than a mortgage or charge in favour
of a State Loan Department, shall be confirmed by a
Board or the Court without the precedent consent of the
Governor in Council:
And whereas application has been made for the consent
of the Governor in Council to a mortgage of the block or
parcel of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto: And
whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent of the
Governor in Council should issue:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Do-
minion, doth hereby consent to the confirmation of an
alienation by way of mortgage of the block or parcel of land
set out in the Schedule hereto. And it is hereby declared
that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in