Declaring Portion of Waihuka Road, in the Ohura County, to be a County Road.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of March, 1921.
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 Waihuka Road, in the Taranaki Land District, Ohura County, commencing at its junction with the Parakiti Road, and proceeding thence generally in a south-westerly direction, adjoining or passing through Sections 1 and 3, 77D No. 2, Block VII, Tangitu Survey District, and terminating on the boundary between the above-mentioned Section 77D No. 2 and Section 7 of the Waihuka Loan Block, Block VII, Tangitu Survey District; being a distance of 2 miles 18 chains, more or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on plan marked P.W.D. 48302, 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 Portion of Mangare Road, in the Whangamomona County, to be a County Road.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of March, 1921.
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 Mangare Road, in the Taranaki Land District, Whangamomona County, commencing at the boundary between Sections 8 and 176, Block XVI, Upper Waitara Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction, adjoining or passing through the said Section 8, Block XVI, Upper Waitara Survey District, and terminating at the eastern end of the Mangare Road tunnel; being a distance of forty chains, more or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 51138, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Ostend Road District, Waiheke Island, constituted.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of March, 1921.
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of section eleven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1919, as amended by section eighty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1920, a petition, signed by not less than two-thirds of the occupiers within the meaning of the Rating Act, 1908, of land within the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the said area be constituted a road district under the provisions of the said section:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in section eleven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1919, as amended by section eighty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1920, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a road district for the purposes of the Road Boards Act, 1908, and to be called by the name of the "Ostend Road District"; and also, in further pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the said section eleven, doth hereby declare that the Board of the said district shall consist of seven members.
SCHEDULE.
OSTEND ROAD DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks I—III and V—VII inclusive, Waiheke Survey District, being part of Waiheke Island, commonly called "The Ostend Estate," and bounded as follows: Commencing at Ostend Wharf in Putiki Bay, bounded towards the west and north-west generally by the high-water mark at Okanuiti Creek, and by the boundary between the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 157, folio 20, at the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, and that comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 140, folio 40, as aforesaid, to Onetangi Bay; thence towards the north generally by the high-water mark at the said Onetangi Bay and by the boundary between the land comprised in said certificate of title, Vol. 140, folio 40, and other part of Allotment 41, Parish of Waiheke, to the eastern boundary of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 140, folio 40, aforesaid.; thence towards the east and south generally by the eastern and southern boundaries of land comprised in the last-mentioned certificate of title, and by the high-water mark at Putiki Bay to the point of commencement.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest to be paid by the Whakatane Harbour Board in respect of a Loan of £650 for the Purpose of completing the carrying-out of General Harbour Improvements.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of March, 1921.
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS section thirty-three of the Finance Act, 1920, 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, at a specified rate of interest, 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 part thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest as may be prescribed by the Governor-General in Council:
And, whereas the Whakatane Harbour Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of six thousand five hundred pounds at five and a quarter per centum, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional six hundred and fifty pounds under the authority of section eighteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913:
And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by the above-recited section thirty-three, and it is desired that the rate of interest at which the money may be borrowed be increased to five and a half per centum:
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 Whakatane Harbour Board in respect of the loan of six hundred and fifty pounds shall be five and a half per centum, and the said Whakatane Harbour Board is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of six hundred and fifty pounds at the rate of interest prescribed.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.