Aug. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2819

from any corporation or persons by way of temporary loan within the limits 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 Wellington City Council and the New Brighton 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

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-first day of August, 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 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 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 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.
£
Hutt County Council .. .. .. 50
Piako County Council .. .. .. 2,000
Raglan County Council .. .. .. 900
Waikato County Council .. .. .. 400

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 twenty-first day of August, 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 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 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 produce to the lender a return exceeding 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 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.
£
Carterton Borough Council .. .. .. 15,000
Gonville Town Board .. .. .. 980
Hastings Borough Council .. .. .. 8,800
" .. .. .. 13,600
Invercargill Borough Council .. .. .. 20,000
Kiwitea County Council .. .. .. 350
Point Chevalier Road Board .. .. .. 1,100

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Consenting to a Body Corporate borrowing Money from a State Loan Department or from any Person or Body Corporate, and authorizing Payment direct to Committee of Management.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of August, 1916.

Present :

The Honourable W. H. Herries presiding in Council.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and thirty-five of the Native Land Act, 1909, and by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, it is provided that, with the precedent consent of the Governor in Council, a body corporate under Part XVII of the Native Land Act, 1909, may, on the security of a mortgage or charge of the land vested in it, borrow money from a State Loan Department, or from any person or body corporate :

And whereas the proprietors of Whangara B 1 and B 2B, being a body corporate duly constituted under the said Act, have applied under the said sections for the precedent consent of the Governor in Council to borrow money from a State Loan Department, or from any person or body corporate, on security of a mortgage of the land vested in it, for the purpose of carrying on farming and for improving and stocking the said land :

And whereas the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board recommends the application : 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 proprietors of Whangara B 1 and B 2B borrowing money from a State Loan Department, or from any person or body corporate, on the security of the land vested in it ; and doth hereby authorize the payment of any money so borrowed as provided in subsection two of section three hundred and thirty-five of the Native Land Act, 1909, to the committee of management.

And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, and of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorized.

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