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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 170

across the said road, and by the south-western boundary of Section No. 14 aforesaid and its production to the Morrinsville-Rotorua Railway Reserve, and thence by that railway reserve to the road intersecting Matamata North Block in a north-westerly direction; thence by the south-western side of the said road and the south-western side of the road intersecting Section No. 1, Parish of Waitoa, and Section No. 1, Block VIII, Maungakawa Survey District, to the easternmost corner of Section No. 2, Block VIII aforesaid; thence by the south-western side of the road forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 2, 3, and 4, Block VIII aforesaid, and the south-western side of the road intersecting Sections Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the said Block VIII to the junction of the last-mentioned road with the road running from the Waitoa River to the westernmost corner of the Orongomairoa Block; thence again towards the north-west by the north-western side of the last-mentioned road to the road forming the north-western boundary of Orongomairoa Block; thence by the north-western side of the said road forming the north-western boundary of the said Orongomairoa Block to the southernmost corner of Waihekau No. 4 Block; thence again towards the south-west generally by the road forming the south-western boundary of that block and across the road to the northernmost corner of Waihekau No. 2 Block, and by that block to the southernmost corner of Section No. 9, Rangiatea Estate, along the south-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 9, 8, and 7, and that line produced to and across a public road forming the north-western boundary of Section No. 36, Block XVI, Waitoa Survey District; thence along the watershed crossing Sections Nos. 34, 33, and 32 to the Waitoa River, and along the right bank of that river to the place of commencement.

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

Epuni Street, in the City of Wellington, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of November, 1917.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General 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-General 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-General by Order in Council thinks fit to impose :

And whereas the Wellington City Council, being the local authority having control of the street described in the Schedule hereto, has passed the following resolution—viz., “The Wellington City Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the City of Wellington, hereby declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to Epuni Street in the said city” :

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that street situated in the City of Wellington, Wellington Land District, known as Epuni Street, adjoining Sections 19, 27, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 17, 26, 29, 31, 33, and 35, in the City of Wellington.

As the said street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 43050, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of November, 1917.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General 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-General in Council :

And whereas application has been made for the consent of the Governor-General 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-General in Council should issue :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General 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 raising of the loans hereinafter 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-General in Council to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£
AUCKLAND City Council . . . . 22,500
Christchurch City Council . . . . 1,150
Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board . . 33,000
Waiuku Town Board . . . . 3,000
Hamilton Borough Council . . . . 2,500

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

Extending Prohibition of Private Alienation of certain Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of November, 1917.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby extend for a further period of six months the Order in Council made the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and gazetted the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, prohibiting all alienations of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE

MAKETU AND WAIHI SOUTH SURVEY DISTRICTS.

Block. Approximate Area.
A. R. P.
Pukehina M Section 1 . . . . 684 1 0
,, 2 . . . . 602 2 3
,, 3 . . . . 300 1 18

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