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of the Akaroa Borough Council, the local authority of the Borough of Akaroa, one of the constituent districts within the Banks Peninsula Electric-power District; to acquire land by purchase or lease and thereon to plant or sow such trees as the Board may consider advisable; to expend moneys on the tending and rearing of such trees, and the same trees from time to time to cut down and utilize for the purpose of electric works within the district, subject to the provisions of the Harbours Act, 1908, and its amendments; to reclaim land by the erection of retaining-walls or otherwise, and to fill in and level such land or otherwise adjust or adapt the same to use for the purposes of the Board; and generally to perform the functions of an Electric-power Board constituted in accordance with the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and its amendments, subject to the following conditions.

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CONDITIONS.

1. No electric lines shall be used for the distribution of electrical energy until the Banks Peninsula Electric-power Board has obtained a license for such purpose in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911.

2. Any conditions inserted in such license shall be strictly complied with by such Board.

3. Such Board shall, before the works authorized are commenced, forward for the approval of the Minister of Public Works,—

(a.) Plans, in triplicate, showing the routes of the electric lines proposed to be erected, and particulars of insulation and voltage;

(b.) Such further plans and particulars as the Minister of Public Works may require.

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

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Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £6,250 by the Wairarapa South County Council for the Purpose of Roading, Bridging, completing Water-races, and completing Purchase of Steam Road-roller and Motor-trucks.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1921.

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 Wairarapa South County Council to borrow the sum of six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds for the purpose of roading, bridging, completing water-race, and completing purchase of steam road-roller and motor-trucks, 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, doth hereby consent to the raising of the sum of six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds by the Wairarapa South County Council at a rate of interest not 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.

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Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1921.

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, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

£

Petone Borough Council (for renewal of a loan) .. 25,000
Paeroa Borough Council (for drainage-works) .. 10,000
South Invercargill Borough Council (for municipal works) .. 2,800
Uawa County Council (for erecting a bridge) .. 1,000
Kairanga County Council (for completing water-race) 400
Kimihia Drainage Board (for drainage) .. 300
Pahiatua County Council (for forming and metalling Puketoi Road) .. 250

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

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Consenting to stopping Portion of Road in Block XIII, Waingaromia Survey District, Waikohu County.

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1921.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 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 Waikohu County Council stopping the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

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

A. R. P.

0 3 17·6 Adjoining or passing through Paraeroa No. 2a.
0 3 19·6 " Hauomatuku No. 7.

Situated in Block XIII, Waingaromia Survey District (Poverty Bay R.D.). (S.O. 894, brown.)

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45284, 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.

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

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JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the Aramahoe Road, in the Taranaki Land District, Ohura County, commencing at its junction with the Ararimu and Otunui Roads, and proceeding thence generally in an easterly direction, adjoining or passing through part Sections 9, 11, and 10, Block VIII, Ohura Survey District, and terminating at a point fourteen chains east of the south-west corner of the above-mentioned Section 10; being