JUNE 5. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1749

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of June, 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.
£
Cook County Council .. .. .. 2,000
Waimairi County Council .. .. .. 1,500
Waitoa Drainage Board .. .. .. 3,900
Auckland City Council .. .. .. 500
Hokianga County Council .. .. .. 1,250,000
Invercargill Borough Council .. .. .. 6,700
Masterton County Council .. .. .. 35,100
New Plymouth Harbour Board .. .. .. 4,000
.. .. .. 50,000

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

Declaring Land to be no longer subject to Part XV of the Native Land Act, 1909.

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 ninety-six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor-General in Council may from time to time by Order in Council declare that any land subject to Part XIV or XV of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and vested in a Maori Land Board, shall no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and shall be revested in the Native owners thereof:

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is at present subject to Part XV of the said Act, and is vested in the Waiariki District Maori Land Board, which Board has recommended that such land be no longer subject as aforesaid and that it be revested in the Native owners:

And whereas the Governor-General is satisfied that the said land is not subject to any lease, license, contract for sale, or other alienation, and that no moneys are charged on the said land or on the revenue thereof in accordance with the said Act or under any other authority:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section ninety-six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall no longer be subject to Part XV of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall be revested in the Native owners thereof.

SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Name of Land. A. R. P.
OKOHERIKI No. 2D Section 3A .. .. Area, 63 0 22
" 3B .. .. " 20 0 26

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

Prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Lands other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of June, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council, all alienation of the Native lands specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

WAINGAROMIA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Block. Approximate Area.
A. R. P.
PARAEROA No. 1 .. .. .. 222 2 18
" 2A .. .. .. 504 2 36
" 2B .. .. .. 215 3 25
Waihora No. 2c 2 .. .. .. 574 3 0

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

Public Trust Office.—Bonus to Beneficiaries.

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 the net surplus profits of the Public Trust Office for the financial year ended the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, after retaining twenty thousand pounds, were fifty thousand one hundred and fifty-five pounds:

And whereas the total amount of the bonuses hereafter mentioned will not exceed thirty-three thousand one hundred pounds:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by section sixty-one of the Finance Act, 1916, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby direct that out of the said net surplus profits a sum equal to one-tenth of the total amount of interest received during that year from the common fund by each estate or account (other than investment agencies) that was not finally closed and distributed before the end of that year shall be credited as a bonus to such estate or account; provided that the total amount of all the said bonuses shall not exceed thirty-three thousand one hundred pounds.

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