Oct. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3421

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 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-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 borrowing from the State Advances Office 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-General in Council to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

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SCHEDULE.

EUREKA Drainage Board, £500: For constructing drainage-works.

Hauraki Drainage Board, £5,000: For constructing drainage-works.

Hungahunga Drainage Board, £5,000: For constructing drainage-works.

Matamata County Council, £1,960: For forming a road in the Whitehall Special-rating Area.

Piako County Council, £1,500: For metalling Te Kawana Road and a portion of Ngatumanga Road.

Stratford County Council, £320: For completing the construction of McLachlan’s bridge.

Waikohu County Council, £600: For constructing a bridge over the Koranga River.

Woodlands Drainage Board, £1,000: For constructing drainage-works.

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

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Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of September, 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 borrowing 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.

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SCHEDULE.

Column B.
£

Piako County Council.. .. .. .. 7,000
Waimea ,, .. .. .. 150
Wairoa ,, .. .. .. 1,200

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

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Declaring Portion of a Road in Block VI, Takahue Survey District, to be a Government Road.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of September, 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 Government road.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road declared to be a Government road:—

A. B. P. Adjoining or passing through
1 2 32 Te Konoti Section A No. 1A.
1 0 8 }
0 0 0·2 Te Konoti A No. 1B.
0 0 39 }

Situated in Block VI, Takahue Survey District. (S.O. 18281.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 40365, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

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Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Waipuku Domain.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of September, 1918.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section forty of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board having, subject to Part II of the said Act, control of such domain:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, a Domain Board was appointed to control the Waipuku Domain:

And whereas the period for which the said Board was appointed expired on the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen:

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a Domain Board to control the said domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice