Dec. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2991

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 prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Auckland City Council in respect of the said four hundred thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding seven per centum per annum, and the said Auckland City Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of four hundred thousand pounds beyond New Zealand accordingly.

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

Extending Prohibition of Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1921.
Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, and by section one hundred and eleven of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913 (as amended by section eight of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1916), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby extend for a further period of eighteen months the Order in Council dated the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and gazetted the twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, but only in so far as it affects the land specified in the Schedule hereto, prohibiting all alienation of such land other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.
WAIRPOUA SURVEY DISTRICT.
Block.
Approximate Area.
A. R. P.
WAIRPOUA 2A No. 1B ... ... ... 204 1 30
,, 2A No. 1C ... ... ... 203 1 19
,, 2A No. 1D (balance) ... ... ... 121 1 21
,, 2B No. 1 ... ... ... 20 0 0
,, 2B Section 2B No. 1 ... ... ... 405 3 0
,, 2B Section 2B No. 2 ... ... ... 100 0 0
,, 2B Section 2B No. 3 ... ... 1,405 0 0
,, 2B 3A 1 ... ... ... 60 0 0
,, 2B No. 3B No. 1 ... ... ... 317 0 0
,, 2B No. 3C ... ... ... 1,217 0 0
,, 2B No. 3D No. 2 ... ... ... 897 1 20
,, 2B No. 3E ... ... ... 816 0 0
,, 2C ... ... ... 22 2 0

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

Extending Prohibition of Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1921.
Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby extend for a further period of six months the Order in Council dated the tenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and gazetted the twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, prohibiting all alienation of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.
TAPATU and Waitangirua No. 2 Block, Matakaoa, Whanga-paraoa, and Mangaoporo Survey Districts: Approximate area, 2,239 acres 0 roods 7 perches.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Port Chalmers Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £7,000 authorized to be raised for paying off the Liability in connection with the Purchase, Repairs, and Improvements of and to the Gasworks.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1921.
Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, as amended by section six of the Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act, 1921, provides that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term not less than ten years as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:
And whereas the Port Chalmers Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of seven thousand pounds for paying off the liability in connection with the purchase, repairs, and improvements of and to the gasworks, and is unable to obtain the money:
And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven, and it is desired that the rate of interest at which the said seven thousand pounds may be borrowed be increased to not exceeding six per centum per annum:
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 prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Port Chalmers Borough Council in respect of the said loan of seven thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Port Chalmers Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of seven thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Auckland City Council in respect of £400,000, being Part of a Loan of £500,000 authorized to be raised for certain Purposes.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1921.
Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, as amended by section six of the Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act, 1921, provides that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where a local authority or public body has been authorized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined, and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed, the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or for such term not less than ten years, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:
And whereas the Auckland City Council is authorized, under the Auckland City Loans Consolidation and Empowering Act, 1921, to borrow the sum of five hundred thousand pounds at such rate or rates of interest as may from time to time be fixed by the Governor-General by Order in Council under section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and is now desirous of borrowing the sum of four hundred thousand pounds, being part of the five hundred thousand pounds, beyond New Zealand at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum:
And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven: