July 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2691

As the same is delineated upon the plan marked L. and S. 41924, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Authorizing the Judges of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal to sit with the Judges of the First Division.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of July, 1918.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section nine of the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that each Division of the Court of Appeal shall sit and exercise its jurisdiction separately, save that in respect of any sitting of either Division the Governor in Council may, on the certificate of two Judges (of whom the Chief Justice shall be one) that any appeal or other proceeding is of special difficulty or importance, authorize all the Judges of the other Division to sit together with those of the former Division for the hearing and determination of that appeal or proceeding :

And whereas in an action by the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Palmerston North against John Octavius Batchelar a motion for judgment was removed into the Court of Appeal under the provisions of section sixty-four of the Judicature Act, 1908 :

And whereas the said motion stands for hearing and determination before the First Division of the Court of Appeal at the sitting commencing on the twenty-third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen :

And whereas the Honourable Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zealand, and the Honourable Worley Bassett Edwards, the Honourable Frederick Revans Chapman, and the Honourable Alexander Lawrence Herdman, three of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, have certified that the said motion is one of special difficulty and importance :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in him in that behalf as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the Judges of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal to sit with the Judges of the First Division of that Court for the hearing and determination at the aforesaid sitting of the motion for judgment in the aforesaid action by the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Palmerston North against John Octavius Batchelar.

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 Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of July, 1918.

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-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.
£
Lower Mangapiko Drainage Board .. .. 2,500
Richmond Borough Council .. .. 2,500
Tamaki West Road Board .. .. 6,000
Kaitieke County Council .. .. 10,000

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

Declaring Portion of Mokauiti Road, in the Waitomo County to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of July, 1918.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING 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-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 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 the Mokauiti Road, in the Taranaki Land District, Waitomo County, commencing at its junction with the Oniao Road, and proceeding thence generally in an easterly direction, adjoining or passing through Pukeuha Block, Sections 14, 15, 11, 12, 13, 16, 61h Section 2b, and 61h Section 2a, Block XI, Totoro Survey District; and Sections 1, 2, 61i 2a No. 2, 61i 2b No. 2, 61j No. 5, and 61k, Block XII, Totoro Survey District, to its junction with the Patoto Road: being a distance of 5 miles 20 chains, more or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44336, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red and lettered A, B.

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

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixteenth day of July, 1918.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING 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 Excel-