Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of
November, 1920.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General 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 Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doith 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.
PALMERSTON North Borough Council (for construction
of roadways and purchase of plant) .. .. £ 70,000
Palmerston North Borough Council (for purchase of
four motor-buses and material for barn and workshop)
.. .. .. .. .. .. 9,000
Napier Borough Council (temporary loan) .. 10,000
Waimeate West County Council (for metalling roads
and erecting bridges) .. .. .. .. .. 24,820
Manukau County Council (for roading) .. .. 7,000
Dargaville Borough Council (for portion of cost of
traffic-bridge and approaches thereto) .. .. 6,000
Mangaorongo Road Board (for widening and metalling
roads) .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,000
Waimarino County Council (for widening, forming,
and metalling Mangaeturoa Road) .. .. 2,500
Eyre County Council (for extension of electric reticulation)
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,000
Parawera Road Board (for metalling Puahue Road) .. 2,000
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portions of Road in Block X, Leaning Rock Survey
District, to be Government Roads.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 8th day of
November, 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 portions of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on
and after the date of this Order in Council, become Government
roads.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road declared to be
Government roads:-
A. R. P.
0 1 16 Adjoining or passing through Section 9.
0 1 20
" " 9.
2 3 21
" Secs. 9, 147, 82.
0 1 12
" Section 8.
0 1 28
" 8.
1 1 24
" Sections 4, 8.
1 1 0
" Section 4.
0 0 12
" 4.
Situated in Block X, Leaning Rock Survey District (Otago
R.D.).
In the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 49956,
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.

Declaring that the Whangaroa County Council shall exercise
the Powers of a Harbour Board, and defining the Limits of
the Port or Harbour of Whangaroa.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of
November, 1920.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General 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 Whangaroa,
which borders on the port or harbour of Whangaroa, in the
Whangaroa 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, and that the limits of such port or harbour
should be defined as hereinafter appears:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General 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, as from the
date hereof, the said Council shall exercise the powers of a
Harbour Board within the limits of the port or harbour here-
inafter set forth, and which said port or harbour is called
Whangaroa Harbour.
And, in further pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-
recited power and authority, His Excellency the Governor-
General, with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby
define the limits of the said port or harbour within which the
Council of the County of Whangaroa is to exercise the powers
aforesaid as follows, that is to say:-
All that area of the sea known as Whangaroa Harbour,
and covered by the sea at high water, and inside a circle of
one nautic mile radius from the South Head.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portions of Road in Block VII, South Molyneux
Survey District, to be a Government Road.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of
November, 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 any-
wise 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 portions
of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after
the date of this Order in Council, become a Government
road.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road declared to be a
Government road:-
A. R. P.
1 2 20 Adjoining or passing through Sections 8 and 9.
0 2 10
Situated in Block VII, South Molyneux Survey District
(Otago R.D.).
In the Otago Land District; as the same are more par-
ticularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 49964,
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.