Feb. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 675

Amending Regulations as to Licenses for the Taking of Toheroa at Kaipara, on the West Coast of the North Island.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 36, of the eleventh day of the same month, certain regulations were made as to the licenses for taking toheroa at Kaipara, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand :

And whereas it is desirable to amend the said regulations in the manner hereinafter described :

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 five of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend the said regulations of the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, by adding to regulation three thereof the following proviso :—

“Provided that when any unoccupied area is advertised for lease in accordance with the foregoing provisions, and the only applicants for such area already have a canning-factory in the district and are the holders of a license in respect of any other of the said areas, the Minister may, in his discretion, grant to one of the said applicants a license for the area so advertised for lease.”

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

Amending Regulations made under the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 37, of the sixth day of the following month, regulations were made relating to the examination of applicants for certificates under the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”) :

And whereas it is desirable that the said regulations be amended in the manner hereinafter described :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend the aforesaid regulations of the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine, by adding thereto after the word “Dunedin” in paragraph one thereof the words “Whangarei, New Plymouth, Greymouth”; and doth hereby declare that this amendment shall come into force on the day of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

F. D. THOMSON,
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 eleventh day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, 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 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 out 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 Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Dannevirke Borough Council .. .. .. £25,000
Picton Borough Council .. .. .. 10,000
Waipukurau Borough Council .. .. .. 10,000
Taumarunui Borough Council .. .. .. 8,000
Otamatea County Council .. .. .. 5,000
Featherston Borough Council .. .. .. 2,000
Franklin County Council .. .. .. 2,000
” .. .. .. 750
Marton Borough Council .. .. .. 1,600
Stratford County Council .. .. .. 750
” .. .. .. 400
Masterton County Council .. .. .. 300
Whangamomona County Council .. .. .. 75
Mataura Borough Council .. .. .. 6,850

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

Declaring Roads in Blocks V and VII, Longwood District, to be Government Roads.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING 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 roads described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become Government roads.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of roads declared to be Government roads :—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
1 0 34·7 Section 72, Block V.
4 2 33 ” 71 ”
4 0 14·2 ” 75 ”
2 1 13·6 ” 75 and 71, Block V.
6 2 4·7 ” 69 and 71 ”
12 2 22 Crown land, Block VII.

Situated in Longwood District.

In the Southland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 47642, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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