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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

by a duly constituted Borough Council under sections two hundred and seventy-seven and three hundred. And twenty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, section thirty-three, and subsection one as regards paragraph (a), and subsection two of section forty-five of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, and section five of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1915.

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

Consenting to stopping a Road in Block I, Otahoua Survey District, Masterton County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-second day of April, 1919.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING 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 Masterton 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 Masterton County Council stopping the road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be stopped: 1 acre 1 rood 4 perches.
Adjoining or passing through part of Lot 2 on D.P. 1626, part Section 101, Masterton Small-farm Settlement.
Situated in Block I, Otahoua Survey District.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45787, 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.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-second day of April, 1919.

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 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.
£
Clutha County Council .. .. .. 1,250
Clutha County Council .. .. .. 600
Mangawara Drainage Board .. .. .. 750
Mangawara Drainage Board .. .. .. 1,500
Awakino County Council .. .. .. 400
Carterton Borough Council .. .. .. 1,200
Green Island Borough Council .. .. .. 1,000
Dargaville Borough Council .. .. .. 1,300
Dargaville Borough Council .. .. .. 1,000
Halswell County Council .. .. .. 5,000
Hamilton Borough Council .. .. .. 2,500
Hobson County Council .. .. .. 3,500
Lower Hutt Borough Council .. .. .. 350
Thames County Council .. .. .. 2,500
Timaru Fire Board .. .. .. 3,000
Waimairi County Council .. .. .. 3,600
Whangarei Borough Council .. .. .. 7,000
Wanganui Borough Council .. .. .. 5,000
Whangarei Borough Council .. .. .. 13,000

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 Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-second day of April, 1919.

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 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.
£
Clifton County Council .. .. .. 350
Eketahuna County Council .. .. .. 40
Manawatu County Council .. .. .. 1,000
Onehunga Borough Council .. .. .. 4,000
Wairoa County Council .. .. .. 1,000
Waitemata County Council .. .. .. 500
Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board .. .. .. 50,000
Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board .. .. .. 6,500
Heathcote County Council .. .. .. 1,200
Johnsonville Town Board .. .. .. 10,000

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