766
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

And whereas all the conditions precedent required by law
to be observed and performed prior to the authorization of
the construction of the said extension of railway have been
observed and performed :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
vested in him by the Local Railways Act, 1914, and section
seventy-eight of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and
Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, 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 authorize the extension of
the Wairoa to Moretown Railway, the middle-line whereof is
described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point on the Wairoa to Moretown Railway,
in Section 194, Block VI, Wairoa District, 4669 links south
and 7778·2 links east of Trig. I, and proceeding in a north-
westery direction generally for a distance of 1 mile 50 chains,
more or less, and passing in, into, through, or over the fol-
lowing lands—viz., Sections 194, Block VI, 37 and 20, Block
III, Wairoa District ; and terminating at a point in the said
Section 20, 5834·5 links north and 1864·7 links east of the said
Trig. I : including all adjoining and intervening places, lands,
reserves, roads, tracks, lakes, rivers, streams, and water-
courses.

In the Southland Land District ; as the same is delineated
on the plan marked P.W.D. 43054, deposited in the office of
the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington
Land District.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting 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 House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh
day of February, 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 expe-
dient 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 herein-
after 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 pro-
visions 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.
£
Cook County Council .. .. .. 4,500
Pukekohe Borough Council .. .. 750
Waitemata County Council .. .. 300

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh
day of February, 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 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.

Egmont County Council, £4,000 : For reconstructing certain
bridges in reinforced concrete.

Kawhia County Council, £600 : For metalling a portion of the
Kinohaku–Waiharakeke Road.

Manukau County Council, £1,000 : For reconstructing three
bridges.

Ngaruawahia Town Board, £1,200 : For providing the Board’s
share of the cost of constructing a bridge over the Waipa
River at Ngaruawahia.

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

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Declaring Rotoroa Road, in the Murchison County, to be a
County Road.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February, 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
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 road described in the Schedule hereto
shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council,
become a county road.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Nelson Land District, Mur-
chison County, known as the “Rotoroa Road,” commencing
at the Gowan Bridge, Buller River, on the Glenhope–West-
port–Reefton Road, eight miles from Glenhope Railway-
station, in Block IX, Hope Survey District ; proceeding
thence in a south-easterly direction along the boundaries of
Sections 4 and 5, Block IX aforesaid, for a distance of about
180 chains ; thence in a southerly direction for a distance of