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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

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.
£
RANGIORA Borough Council .. .. .. 5,500
Hobson County Council .. .. .. 250
Whakatane County Council .. .. .. 530
Petone Borough Council.. .. .. .. 9,400

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 sixth day of August, 1918.

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.
£
RANGIORA County Council .. .. .. 5,000
Waipa County Council .. .. .. 3,000
Waitemata County Council .. .. .. 1,185

F. W. FURBY,
Acting 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 sixth day of August, 1918.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by section twenty-six, subsection one, of the Appropriation Act, 1915, it is provided that, not-withstanding 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.
£
FEATHERSTON Borough Council .. .. .. 2,000
Havelock Town Board .. .. .. 1,900
Otamatea County Council .. .. .. 475

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

Consenting to stopping a Road in Block XV, Hawkins Survey District, Malvern County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this sixth day of August, 1918.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three (a) of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county road or district road to be stopped until the consent thereto of the Governor-General, by Order in Council gazetted, is obtained :
And whereas the Malvern County Council has applied for such consent in respect of the road described in the Schedule hereto :
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, 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 consent to the Malvern County Council stopping the road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
Approximate area of the piece of road permitted to be stopped: 4 acres 0 roods 7 perches.
Adjoining or passing through R.S. 27918, 27990, and 37069, Block XV, Hawkins Survey District (Canterbury R.D.).
In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44344, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

Declaring a Road in Blocks I and IV, Tua peka Survey District, to be a Government Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this sixth day of August, 1918.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General 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