2444
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 102

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street in the City of Wellington of a Width less than 66 ft. but not less than 40 ft.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and seventy-eight of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that where the configuration of any borough is such as that within any particular area or areas thereof it is difficult or inexpedient to construct streets of a width of sixty-six feet, as required by the said Act, the Governor may, by Order in Council defining the limits of such particular area or areas, authorize the Council to permit within such area or areas the construction of streets and private streets of a width less than sixty-six feet but not less than forty feet:

And whereas the configuration of part of the City of Wellington is such that within the area described in the Schedule hereto it is inexpedient to construct streets of sixty-six feet in width:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, 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 hereby authorize the Wellington City Council to permit the laying-off of a street of a width less than sixty-six feet, but not less than forty feet, within the area described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land situated in the Wellington Land District, City of Wellington, comprising 1 acre 17·5 perches (approximately), being Section 843 and part Section 845 on the map of the Town of Wellington. As the said area is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42145, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon bordered green.

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

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Consenting to the Raising of a Loan by the Council of the Borough of St. Kilda.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1917.

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 St. Kilda Borough Council to borrow a loan of two thousand pounds:

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 said loan by the St. Kilda Borough Council; provided that the rate of interest at which he loan is to be raised shall not 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 loan hereby authorized.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1917.

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: 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 several 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.

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SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£
Waitomo County Council .. .. .. 9,150
" .. .. .. 4,000
" .. .. .. 1,300
" .. .. .. 1,250
" .. .. .. 1,200
" .. .. .. 500
Cook County Council .. .. .. 12,000
Whakatane Town Board .. .. .. 10,000

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

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Declaring Maraetaua Road, in the Waitomo County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 hereby order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that road situated in the Auckland Land District, Waitomo County, known as Maraetaua Road, commencing at its junction with the Te Kuiti–Awakino Road, and proceeding thence generally in a westerly direction through Sections part 10 and 9A in the Maraetaua Block, to the western boundary of the said Section 9A, in Block VII, Otanake Survey District; being a distance of 1 mile 10 chains, more or less. As the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42356, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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