JUNE 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2195

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of June, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 limit 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
authorities 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 hereinafter 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 Appro-
priation 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.
£
Ohinemuri County Council .. .. .. 375
Uapoto Drainage Board .. .. .. .. 115
Whangamomona County Council .. .. .. .. 275

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of June, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 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 limit 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 local authorities
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-
after mentioned by the local authorities set out in the
Schedule hereto; provided that the rate of interest at
which the loans or any of them are to be raised shall in no
case exceed five and one-quarter pounds per centum per
annum; and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council
is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Appro-
priation 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.
£
Cook County Council .. .. .. .. 3,100
Eltham Borough Council .. .. .. 6,600
Hobson County Council .. .. .. 2,500

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

Cancelling the Reservation for Post and Telegraph Purposes
over Portion of Allotment 9 of Section 37, Town of Hawera,
and setting apart the same for Purposes of the Workers’
Dwellings Act, 1910.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of June, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
him by section forty-one of the Reserves and other
Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1915,
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 Dominion, doth hereby cancel the reserva-
tion for post and telegraph purposes over the land described
in the Schedule hereto; and also doth hereby, with the like
advice and consent as aforesaid, set apart the said land for
the purposes of the Workers’ Dwellings Act, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by
admeasurement 5 acres 0 roods 32·8 perches, more or less,
being part Allotment 9 of Section No. 37, Town of
Hawera. Bounded towards the north and west by other
part Allotment 9, 283·8 and 243 links; again towards
the north by High Street, 307·8 links; towards the east by
Allotment 8 of Section 37, Town of Hawera, 1127·5 links;
towards the south by Allotment 5 of Section 37, Town of
Hawera, 416·5 links; and towards the west by Waihi Road,
902·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the
same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/1/117,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey,
at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Changing the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Belmont,
Rimutaka, and Onoke Survey Districts, Wellington Land
District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of June, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
forms part of a reserve heretofore duly set apart for
the growth and preservation of timber, being a purpose
within Class I of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908:

And whereas it is expedient that such land shall be ap-
propriated for the growth and preservation of timber and
water-supply, being a purpose within the said Class I:

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, and
in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon
him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that the said land
shall, from and after the date hereof, be appropriated for
the growth and preservation of timber and water-supply
purposes under Class I of the Public Reserves and Domains
Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing
5,220 acres, more or less, situated in Block XVII, Belmont
Survey District, Blocks VIII, X, and XI, Rimutaka Survey
District, and Block II, Onoke Survey District, and bounded
as follows: Commencing at a point on the main Rimutaka
Range distant about eighty chains in a south-westerly direc-