2738
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

And whereas it is expedient that such land shall be appropriated for gravel purposes, being a purpose within the said Class I:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that the said land shall, from and after the date hereof, be appropriated for gravel purposes under Class I of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, being Reserve 2287B, Block VII, Selwyn Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 3 acres 1 rood 22 perches, more or less.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Consenting to stopping Portions of Road in Block XII, Maungamangero Survey District, Waitomo County.

ROBERT STOUT.
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of September, 1920.

Present :

His Excellency the Administrator presiding in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government 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 Waitomo County Council stopping the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road permitted to be stopped :—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
0 0 0·008 } Kinohaku East 4n, Section 1.
1 2 35·7
0 1 30·3 }
0 1 19 } 4g . 3.
0 0 2·5 } 4g 2.

Situated in Block XII, Maungamangero Survey District. (S.O. 18341.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39462, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of a Public School in the City of Nelson.

ROBERT STOUT.
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of September, 1920.

Present :

His Excellency the Administrator presiding in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government 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 of a public school, portion of such street being occupied by a building.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land being taken: 1 rood 9 perches.

Being part B Lutheran Reserve, situated in the City of Nelson.

In the Nelson Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D 49703, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged pink.

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

ROBERT STOUT.
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of September, 1920.

Present :

His Excellency the Administrator presiding in Council.

WHEREAS application has been made, under section twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, for the precedent 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 it is expedient that such consent should issue:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government 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-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 loans hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Hamilton Borough Council, £110,000 (drainage).
Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board, £25,000 (sewerage).
Whakatane Borough Council, £20,000 (hydro-electric scheme).
Wanganui County Council, £10,000 (workers’ dwellings).
Mackenzie County Council, £8,000 (hydro-electric scheme).
Kawhia County Council, £4,000 (road-metalling).
Christchurch City Council, £6,000 (sanitary purposes); £1,000 (sanitary purposes).
Patangata County Council, £1,200 (road-making plant and bridge-building).
Opotiki Borough Council, £538 18s. 3d. (hospital levy).
Piako County Council, £500 (road-metalling).

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

Declaring that the Bay of Islands County Council shall exercise the Powers of a Harbour Board within the Limits of the Port or Harbour of Bay of Islands.

ROBERT STOUT.
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of September, 1920.

Present :

His Excellency the Administrator presiding in Council.

WHEREAS it is, among other things, provided by section one hundred and eighty-five of the Counties Act, 1908, that in any place where there is no Harbour Board the Governor-General, on the request of the Council of any county bordering on any estuary or arm of the sea, may, by Order in Council duly gazetted, declare that such Council shall, from a date to be fixed in such Order, exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within such limits of such estuary or arm aforesaid as the Governor-General may define for that purpose:

And whereas the Council of the County of Bay of Islands, which borders on the port or harbour of Bay of Islands, in the Bay of Islands County, has requested that it may be declared that it shall exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within such port or harbour: And whereas it is desirable that such request should be acceded to:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, from and after the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, the said Council shall exercise the powers of a Harbour Board within the limits of the port or harbour hereinbefore set forth, and which said port or harbour is called Bay of Islands Harbour, that is to say :—

All that area of the sea known as Bay of Islands, and covered by the sea at high water, lying inside a straight line drawn from the northern extreme of Richards Peninsula to the Nine Pin, and thence to the northern extreme of Cape Wiwiki.

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