Jan. 11.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Consenting to the Payment of Revenues of Land to the
Committee of Management.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of December, 1916.
Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and thirty-three of
the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that the
rent, purchase-money, or other proceeds of any alienation of
land made by a body corporate under Part XVII of that
Act shall not, except with the consent of the Governor in
Council, be paid to the committee of management or directly
to the incorporated owners:
And whereas the proprietors of the land known as Whanga-
paraoa No. 2K, containing 7,075 acres, more or less, have been
duly incorporated under the provisions of the said Act, and
a committee of management duly appointed: And whereas
the said committee has leased 5,000 acres, more or less, of the
said land to Hone Waitete, one of the said proprietors, for a
period of twenty-one years, with a right of renewal for a
further period of twenty-one years:
And whereas the Waiariki District Maori Land Board has
recommended that the consent of the Governor in Council
be granted to the payment direct to the said proprietors of the
rents secured by the said lease:
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 section three
hundred and thirty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the
payment of the rents secured by the above-mentioned lease
direct to the said proprietors of Whangaparaoa No. 2K Block.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth
day of December, 1916.
Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. ALLEN PRESIDING 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 men-
tioned 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
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 ac-
cordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the
raising of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.
Te Kuiti Borough Council .. .. .. 3,600
Hastings Borough Council .. .. .. 2,930
Raglan County Council .. .. .. 600
Paeroa Borough Council .. .. .. 600
Stratford County Council .. .. .. 700

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

Declaring Otawhao Block Road, in the Waipawa County, to
be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of December, 1916.
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 anyway 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.

SCHEDULE.
All that portion of road in the Hawke's Bay Land District,
Waipawa County, commencing at a point on the north-east
corner of Section 14, Block II, Takapau Survey District, and
proceeding thence generally in an easterly direction along the
northern boundaries of Sections 15, 16, 17, and 12, Block II,
Takapau Survey District, and terminating at its junction
with No. 1 Road, at a point near the north-west corner of the
said Section 12, being a distance of 1 mile 43 chains, more
or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41495, deposited in
the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in
the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured
blue, and marked F—G.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portion of Road in Block XII, Kawhia North
Survey District, to be a Government Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this ninth day of
January, 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 anyway 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
Government road.

SCHEDULE.
Approximate area of the piece of road declared a Govern-
ment road: 1 rood 2 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Sections 2 and 6, Block XII,
Kawhia North Survey District (S.O. 17926).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41328,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured green.

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

District Roads in the Vincent County exempted from the Pro-
visions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this ninth day of
January, 1917.
Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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