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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 75

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 Lyttelton Borough Council to borrow moneys from any corporation or persons by way of temporary loan within the limits of its powers set out in section ninety-six of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908:

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 Dominion, doth hereby consent to the borrowing by the Lyttelton Borough Council of moneys by way of temporary loan within the limits prescribed by section ninety-six of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, 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 borrowing hereby authorized.

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

Fixing Dues for the Use of Akaroa Boat-slip and making Regulations regarding its Use.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this third day of July, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the sixteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 128, of the twenty-sixth day of the same month, the Akaroa County Council was licensed to occupy a site for a boat-slip on the foreshore of Akaroa Harbour:

And whereas such slip has been completed, and it is desirable that charges should be fixed and regulations made for its use:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the charges set forth in the Schedule hereto shall be made for the use of the said slip, and that the regulations set forth in such Schedule shall be regulations applying to the slip.

SCHEDULE.

CHARGES FOR USE OF SLIP.

s. d.
Taking up a whaleboat to 3 tons weight .. .. 2 6
Taking up a launch to 6 tons weight .. .. 3 0
Such charges shall cover the use of the boat-slip for forty-eight hours.

REGULATIONS.

1. Should the slip be required for a longer period than forty-eight hours, special application must be made to the Akaroa County Council, when an extension of time will be granted, provided the slip is not required for another boat.

2. The Council may demand that any boat at the slip shall vacate it at any time in case of emergency, such as another boat or launch requiring immediate attention owing to an accident. The County Council, or the officer appointed by it to be in charge of the slip, to be the sole judge as to the necessity.

3. The axle-bearings of the carriage of the slip are to be oiled each time before being run down, and the wire rope is to be kept greased or oiled on that part which runs in the water, such greasing or oiling to be done by the boat or launch owner without charge to the County Council.

4. When boats are launched, after using the slip, the carriage must be hauled up at once to the top of the slipway and secured by the user, unless it is required to take another boat on the same tide. The winch is to be padlocked and the key returned to the place appointed by the County Council.

5. Boat and launch owners will be granted the use of the slip in the order of application, and must use it on the date appointed; failing their doing so the next on the list will be allowed first use of it.

6. If any person fails, or refuses, or neglects to do anything required by these regulations, or in any manner obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the doing of anything enjoined or authorized to be done by these regulations, he shall in every case so offending be liable to a fine not exceeding £20.

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

Savings-bank.—Period of Retention of Ledgers.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this third day of July, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eighty-one of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations, inter alia, prescribing the time for which books, forms, and documents relating to the Post Office Savings-bank shall be retained in the custody of the Postmaster-General, and the mode in which they shall thereafter be destroyed or otherwise disposed of: And whereas it is desirable to fix a period for the retention of savings-bank ledgers:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth order that the regulation hereby made shall have effect on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

LEDGERS and ledger cards relating to Post Office Savings-bank accounts which have been closed may be destroyed in the presence of two postal officers at the expiration of a period of not less than ten years from the latest date entered therein or thereon.

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

License authorizing the Wellington City Council to erect Electric Lines from the Tramway Trolley-wire and Rail in Tinakori Road to the Premises of Messrs. Munt, Cottrell, and Co. (Limited).

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington this third day of July, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that no person shall lay, construct, put up, place, or use any electric line except under the authority of a license issued to him by the Governor in Council under that Act:

And whereas the Wellington City Council (hereinafter referred to as “the licensee”) desires to erect electric lines from the overhead tramway trolley-wire and rail in Tinakori Road to the adjoining premises of Messrs. Munt, Cottrell, and Co. (Limited), situated in Town Acre Section 643, City of Wellington (hereinafter referred to as “the said electric lines”), and it is expedient accordingly to issue a license in respect thereof under the said section:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto, hereby authorize the said licensee to erect and maintain the said electric lines for the purpose of supplying power to motors having a total capacity of twenty horse-power, such electric lines being indicated by a red line on the plan marked P.W.D. 39833, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.