Feb. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 491

New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend, in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations under the said Act made by Order in Council dated the eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

SCHEDULE.

1. CLAUSE 14 of the regulations made under the said Act on the 8th day of November, 1915, is hereby amended by adding references to the following sections—viz., section 127 of the Land Act, 1908, and section 25 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1911.

2. The provisions of section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and of the regulations relating to Land Board elections made on the 7th day of February, 1913, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th day of February, 1913, shall, so far as they relate to the election of elective members of Land Boards, apply to every discharged soldier who is the owner of a lease issued pursuant to section 4 of the said Act, and accordingly every such discharged soldier shall be eligible to vote for the election of any elective member of the Land Board for the land district in which such discharged soldier’s land is situated.

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

Authorizing Special Investment of £30,000 of the Public Trust Office Funds.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirtieth day of January, 1918.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (hereinafter called “the said Board”), incorporated under the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and its amendments (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), has applied to the Public Trustee for a loan of thirty thousand pounds, for the purpose of repaying the existing overdraft of the said Board with the Bank of New Zealand, and for the erection of an infectious-diseases ward and a women’s and children’s ward in connection with their present institution :

And whereas the said Board, as security for the said loan, has agreed to execute a mortgage from the said Board to the Public Trustee of the rents and profits proceeding from the endowments vested in the said Board, and also over the freehold lands vested in the said Board, together with a covenant by the said Board that a contribution will be levied annually by the said Board, under the provisions of section forty-one of the said Act, for whatever sum as is required to make up the full interest and sinking fund in respect of the said sum of thirty thousand pounds for the year :

And whereas part of the said security is not one authorized by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 :

And whereas by section ninety-one of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, it is enacted that it shall be lawful to invest any part of the balance of the Public Trust Office Account in any security which shall be declared by the Governor-General by Order in Council to be security in which such balance may be invested :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General in and for the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that it shall be lawful for the Public Trustee to invest out of the balance of the Public Trust Office Account the further sum of thirty thousand pounds upon the said security.

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities from the State Advances Office.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of February, 1918.

Present:

The Right Honourable W. F. Massey, P.C., 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 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.

SCHEDULE.

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

Moa Road Board, £350: For constructing a bridge on Rugby Road.

Moa Road Board, £2,300: For forming and metalling Everett Road, and for constructing an arch over the Kurapete Stream.

Raglan County Council, £2,000: For constructing a bridge over the Waipa River at Ngaruawahia.

Waitemata County Council, £1,400: For forming, culverting, and metalling a portion of the Wainui-Kaukapakapa Road.

Waitomo County Council, £175: For completing the work of reforming, culverting, and metalling the Mairoa Road and a portion of the Kihikihi Road.

Tauranga County Council, £1,000: For metalling a road in the Greerton Special-rating Area.

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 eleventh day of February, 1918.

Present:

The Right Honourable W. F. Massey, P.C., 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.