Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 887

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.

MILTON Borough Council .. .. .. £10,000
Auckland City Council.. .. .. .. 10,000
Mount Eden Borough Council .. .. .. 10,000
Waipa County Council .. .. .. .. 8,000
Carterton Borough Council .. .. .. 1,000
Hungahunga Drainage Board .. .. .. 1,000
Horowhenua County Council .. .. .. 500
Taranaki County Council .. .. .. 100
Onehunga Borough Council .. .. .. 350

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Raising of a Loan of £10,000 by the Council of the Borough of Te Awamutu.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of March, 1920.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Te Awamutu Borough Council lately proposed to raise a loan of ten thousand pounds, under the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and Part V of the Housing Act, 1919, for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings:

And whereas section nine of the said Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, provides that a notice setting forth the proposal to raise the loan shall be published once in each week for four successive weeks:

And whereas the notice setting forth the proposal to raise the loan was not published once in each week for four successive weeks, inasmuch that the said notices were published in the Waipa Post on the twentieth and twenty-third days of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and the third and tenth days of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the said proceedings shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the notice of proposal to raise the loan had been published in the manner prescribed in section nine aforesaid, and that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £400 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Woodville.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of March, 1920.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Woodville County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of four hundred pounds, under Part III of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and section fifty-one of the Housing Act, 1919, for the purpose of purchasing a cottage for the use of the county surfaceman:

And whereas section nine and section ten, subsection four, of the said Act provide that public notification of the intention to raise a loan and the voting-paper shall contain certain full particulars of the proposal to raise such loan:

And whereas the public notifications of intention to raise the said loans and the voting-paper used in connection therewith contained no statement of the provision for repayment of the loan as set out in section sixty-eight, subsection (b), of the said Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the requirements of section nine and of subsections two and four of section ten of the said Act as above mentioned had been strictly complied with, and that the proceedings shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Raising of a Special Loan of £4,000 for Land Drainage Purposes by the Board of the Woodlands Drainage District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of March, 1920.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Woodlands Drainage Board lately proposed to raise, under the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and its amendments, a special loan of four thousand pounds for the purpose of land drainage:

And whereas public notification of the deposit of the special roll of ratepayers for public inspection was not given in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and the regulations thereunder, inasmuch as such notification was given on the second day following the deposit of the said roll:

And whereas the notice of the date fixed for the taking of the poll of ratepayers on the said proposal was not given not less than four times as provided by section ten (two) of the said Act, inasmuch as only three such notifications were given:

And whereas in the public notifications of intention to raise the said loan and in the voting-paper used at the said poll of ratepayers the words “classified C” were omitted from the clause relating to the security for the said loan:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such defects or irregularities, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers conferred by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the public notifications of the deposit of the said special roll and of the date fixed for the taking of the poll of ratepayers shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as though such notifications had been properly published, and that the said public notifications of intention to raise the loan and the voting-paper used at the said poll shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as though the words “classified C” had not been omitted therefrom; and, further, that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the defects and irregularities aforesaid.

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

Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand revoked.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New