Dec. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4021

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred upon him by section one hundred and ninety-seven of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke clause three of the said Order in Council of the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and doth hereby substitute the following clause therefor, viz. :

“3. Life-jackets previously passed.—Until the 1st January, 1920, any life-jacket which has been previously passed by a Marine Department Surveyor as part of the statutory equipment of a vessel may be accepted as part of the statutory equipment of the same vessel so long as it remains in good condition. On and after that date no life-jacket should be passed unless it complies with the conditions stated in paragraph 2.”

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

Appointing Members of the Surveyors Board under the Surveyors Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1918.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of the Surveyors Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby appoint, as from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, the undermentioned persons to be members of the Surveyors Board constituted by the said Act, namely,—

THOMAS HUMPHRIES,
ROBERT THOMAS SADD,
HUBERT SLADDEN, and
JOSEPH CHARLES SIMMONDS,

the two first-named persons having been nominated by the Minister of Lands, and the two last-named persons having been nominated by the Council of the Institute of Surveyors, as required by the said Act.

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

Certain Species of Birds indigenous to New Zealand not to be deemed protected.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1918.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, as amended by the Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, 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 suspend the operation of section ten of the said Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, for the period ending on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, with respect to the species of birds indigenous to New Zealand mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Hawks of all species.
Kea, or mountain parrot.
Shags of the following species: Black shag (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris); white-throated shag (Phalacrocorax brevirostris); sea-shag (Phalacrocorax novaehollandiae, Phalacrocorax carbo).

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

Consenting to stopping a Road in Blocks VI and X, Whangara Survey District, Cook County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 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 Cook 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 Cook County Council stopping the road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of the piece of road permitted to be stopped: 4 acres 1 rood 11 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Whangara B No. 1, Blocks VI and X, Whangara Survey District (Poverty Bay R.D.).

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44963, 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.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 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.
£
Nelson City Council. . . . . 7,500
Otamatea County Council . . . . 4,500
Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board . . 20,000
Takapuna Borough Council . . . . 10,000

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