1558
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

SCHEDULE.
AREA PROPOSED TO BE ADDED TO THE BOROUGH OF THAMES.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Auckland bounded towards the north-east by a right line commencing at Trig. Station F, Block IV, Thames Survey District, and proceeding to Trig. Station D, Punga Flat; thence by a right line to the true right bank of the Kauaeranga River, passing through a point 3650 links distant, bearing due west (true), from Trig. Station 92, Gentle Annie; thence towards the south generally by the true right bank of the said Kauaeranga River and by the ordinary high-water mark of the true right bank of the said Kauaeranga River to the south boundary of the Borough of Thames at the confluence of the said Kauaeranga River and the Hape Creek; thence towards the south-west generally by the boundary of the said Borough of Thames—namely, by a line along the middle of the said Hape Creek to the middle of Grey Street, by a line along the middle of the said Grey Street to the middle of Rolleston Street, by a line along the middle of the said Rolleston Street to the middle of Karaka Road, by a line along the middle of the said Karaka Road to a point opposite the middle of Sandes Street, by a right line to Trig. Station No. 1, Waiotahi Spur, by a right line to Trig. Station No. 5, Kuranui Hill, and by a right line to Trig. Station F, the point of commencement.

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

Consenting to stopping a Road in Block XI, Mount Robinson Survey District, Horowhenua County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1919.

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 Horowhenua 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 Horowhenua County Council stopping the road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be stopped: 4 acres 0 roods 6 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Sections 651 to 661 and 703 on D.P. 369 (originally part of Manawatu-Kukutauaki 2D No. 3), Block XI, Mount Robinson Survey District (Township of Shannon).

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45976, 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 House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1919.

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.
£

Bruce County Council
.. .. .. 1,700
Franklin County Council
.. .. .. 3,000
Kairanga County Council
.. .. .. 1,670
”
.. .. .. 1,670
Rangitikei County Council
.. .. .. 1,660
”
.. .. .. 120
”
.. .. .. 100
”
.. .. .. 800
Rangiaohia Road Board
.. .. .. 5,000
Waitemata County Council
.. .. .. 920
Levels County Council
.. .. .. 10,000
Waikohu County Council
.. .. .. 120
Eketahuna Borough Council
.. .. .. 2,600
Eketahuna County Council
.. .. .. 4,000
Invercargill Borough Council
.. .. .. 900
”
.. .. .. 4,500
Kairanga County Council
.. .. .. 7,000
Vincent Hospital and Charitable Aid Board
.. .. 3,000
Whakatane Borough Council
.. .. .. 1,000
”
.. .. .. 100
Waimairi County Council
.. .. .. 3,900

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

Defining and assigning a Distinctive Badge for the New Zealand Returned Soldiers Association.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of the Military Decorations and Distinctive Badges Act, 1918, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, define a badge or badges and assign the same to be worn as a distinctive mark or marks only by the members of a society incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908, of which the membership (other than honorary membership) is limited to persons or classes of persons who have served in His Majesty’s Forces during a period when His Majesty is or was at war, or who have rendered public service, whether civil or military, during such a period:

And whereas the New Zealand Returned Soldiers Association (Incorporated), (hereinafter called “the said association”), is a society incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908:

And whereas by the constitution of the said association membership is limited to persons or classes of persons defined as aforesaid:

And whereas the said association has applied to have the badge described in the Schedule hereto defined and assigned to the said association:

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, in pursuance of section four of the Military