790 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 25

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fifth day of March, 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.

INVERCARGILL Borough Council .. .. .. £ 29,760
,, .. .. .. 4,000
,, .. .. .. 2,000
,, .. .. .. 5,000
,, .. .. .. 1,925
,, .. .. .. 12,500
,, .. .. .. 50,000
,, .. .. .. 10,000
Carterton Borough Council .. .. .. 16,000
Hokianga County Council .. .. .. 10,000
Manurewa Town Board .. .. .. 10,000
Rangiora Borough Council .. .. .. 5,000
Kakepuku Road Board .. .. .. 100
Vincent Hospital and Charitable Aid Board .. .. 4,000
Otamatea County Council .. .. .. 460

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

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of Workers’ Dwellings in the City of Wellington.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1920.

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

WHEREAS by the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, in section fifteen thereof, inter alia, enacted that, except for the purpose of a railway or defence purposes, or for the purposes of any other work to be made under the authority of a special Act, nothing in that Act shall authorize the taking of any land occupied by any building, yard, garden, orchard, or vineyard, or in bona fide occupation as an ornamental park or pleasure-ground, without the previous consent of the Governor-General in Council or the consent in writing of the owner first obtained :

And whereas part of the land described in the Schedule hereto is occupied by buildings, and the Wellington City Council has applied to His Excellency the Governor-General for the issue of an Order in Council under the said Act consenting to the taking of the said land for the purpose of workers’ dwellings :

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 land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land being taken :—
A. R. P. Being
28 0 22 Land known as Tinakori North ; coloured blue.
58 3 21 Portion of Section 30, Karori ; coloured red.

Situated in the City of Wellington, Block VI, Port Nicholson Survey District.

In the Wellington Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 47765, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £14,000 proposed to be raised by the Thames Borough Council.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fifth day of March, 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 Thames Borough Council to borrow the sum of fourteen thousand pounds :

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 loan of fourteen thousand pounds by the Thames Borough Council, provided that the rate of interest at which the loan is to be raised shall in no case produce to the lender a return exceeding five and one-half 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 loan hereby authorized.

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

Declaring Portion of Road in the Hawke’s Bay County to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fifth 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 portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.