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 sums set opposite the names of the said local authorities respectively, for the several purposes specified in the said Schedule 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, for the purposes specified in the said Schedule; 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.
Egmont County Council, £1,500: For forming and metalling that portion of Auroa Road between the Egmont National Park and the Railway Reserve.
Hobson County Council, £1,000: For repairing roads and bridges damaged by flood.
Moa Road Board, £270: For completing the forming and the metalling of Lepper Road South.
Patea County Council, £370: For metalling Clifford Road.
Rodney County Council, £3,000: For renewing bridges in reinforced concrete.
Western Taieri Land Drainage Board, £850: For repairing drainage works damaged by flood.
Taumarunui Borough Council, £1,700: For providing the Council's share of the cost of constructing a bridge across the Wanganui River at Taumarunui.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Consenting to the Borrowing of Moneys by Way of Temporary Loan within the Limits prescribed by Section 96 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, by the Council of the Borough of Marton.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1917.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., 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 Marton Borough Council to borrow moneys 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 Marton 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.
Closing Napier Public Cemetery, Borough of Napier.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of April, 1917.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it appears to the Governor that burials in the Napier Public Cemetery, in the Borough of Napier, which said cemetery is described in the Schedule hereto, should be wholly discontinued: And whereas a sufficient cemetery not within the limits of any borough or town district has been provided, and has been prepared for the interment of the dead, as required by the Cemeteries Act, 1908:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the authorities vested in him by the said Cemeteries Act, 1908, doth hereby order and direct that, from and after the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, the Napier Public Cemetery, in the Borough of Napier, described in the aforesaid Schedule, shall be closed, and burials therein discontinued; and, further, that the said cemetery shall, from and after the said first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, be vested in the Napier Borough Council, under the provisions and for the purposes of the seventy-eighth section of the said Cemeteries Act, 1908.
SCHEDULE.
NAPIER PUBLIC CEMETERY.
ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 2 perches, more or less, being the cemetery reserve in the Borough of Napier. Bounded towards the north and east generally by Chaucer Road, 79·5, 304·9, and 1022 links; and towards the south and west generally by Botanical Garden Reserve, 1902·4 links. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/322, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Delivery of Letters to Houses off Road or Street.-Purchase and Repurchase of Stamps.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1917.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ten, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), inter alia, for the delivery of postal packets and for the purchase and repurchase of stamps: And whereas it is desirable to amend such regulations in the manner herein set forth:
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 revoke the regulation numbered one under the heading "Delivery," and the regulation numbered two under the heading "Purchase and Repurchase of Stamps," in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall form part of and be read together with the regulations first herein mentioned, and shall take effect on the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.
DELIVERY.

1. To facilitate the delivery of letters, a letter-box should be affixed to every house-door. Any person whose residence