MAY 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1549

Land Transfer plan No. 546 aforesaid, on a line bearing 244° 7′, a distance of 487·3 links; thence towards the south-west by Royston Street, on a line bearing 317° 10′, a distance of 63·4 links, to the commencing-point. As the said street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 48413, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

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

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan proposed to be raised by the Christchurch Tramway Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourteenth day of May, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 to enable the Christchurch Tramway Board to borrow the sum of three hundred and forty 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 three hundred and forty thousand pounds by the Christchurch Tramway Board, 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.

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan proposed to be raised by the Stratford Borough Council.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourteenth day of May, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Stratford Borough Council to borrow the sum of seven 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 a loan of seven thousand pounds by the Stratford 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 the Taumarunui – Te Kuiti Road, in the Ohura County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourteenth day of May, 1920.

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 Taumarunui – Te Kuiti Road, in the Taranaki Land District, Ohura County, commencing at its junction with the existing road at the crossing of the Stratford Main Trunk Railway, and proceeding thence generally in a northerly direction, adjoining or passing through Section 2, Block II, Rangi Survey District, to a point on the boundary between the said Section 2 and Section 60A, Section 2, Block II, Rangi Survey District; being a distance of fifty-four chains, more or less. As the said portion of the road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 48496, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Declaring No. 1 Branch Road, in the Dannevirke County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourteenth day of May, 1920.

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 road in the Wellington Land District, Dannevirke County, known as No. 1 Branch Road, Tiratu Block, commencing at its junction with Tiratu Road, and proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction, adjoining or passing through Tiratu No. 1 Block (Native land), Sections 14, 13, 11, 12, 10, and 9, Tiratu Block, Block IV, Tahoraiti Survey District, and terminating at its junction with the Raumati Road; being a distance of 2 miles 43 chains, more or less. As the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 48488, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red and marked A-B.

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