the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the Wairoa
County Council stopping the road described in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road permitted to be
stopped:
A. R. P.
0 3 5 Adjoining Section 2c 2.
0 1 5 " 2c 1.
Situated in Waihua Block, Block XI, Waihua Survey
District (Hawke's Bay R.D.).
In the Hawke's Bay Land District ; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45515,
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.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fourth
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, 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
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.

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.
CASTLECLIFF Town Board ... 10,000
Featherston County Council ... 650
Franklin County Council ... 10,000
Hawera County Council ... 9,000
Patea Borough Council ... 6,000
Piako County Council ... 4,000
Raglan County Council ... 5,000
Taranaki County Council ... 40,500
Waipa County Council ... 15,000
Waimarino County Council ... 1,250
Waitomo County Council ... 1,300

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

Declaring Portion of Marakopa River to Mahoenui Road, in
the Awakino County, to be a County Road.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth
day of June, 1919.
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 portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall,
on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a
county road.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that portion of the Marakopa River to Mahoenui Road,
in the Auckland Land District, Awakino County, commencing
at the south-eastern corner of Section 8, Block VI, Maunga-
mangero Survey District, and running generally in a north-
westerly direction, adjoining or passing through the said Sec-
tion 8, and terminating at its junction with Mangaotaki Valley
(Upper) Road ; being a distance of twelve chains, more or less.
As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated
on the plan marked P.W.D. 46184, deposited in the office of
the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington
Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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