APRIL 28.]

Land taken for the Purposes of a Road in Block V, Piako Survey District.

[J.s.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a road; and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 3 acres 0 roods 29 perches.

Portion of Section 28, Maramarua Parish, Block V, Piako Survey District. (S.O. 21340.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 50826, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of April, 1921.

R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending Regulation under the National Provident Fund Act, 1910.

JELLLCOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of April, 1921.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section seven (b) of the National Provident Fund Act, 1910, 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 revoke regulation twenty-five of the regulations under that Act, dated the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and gazetted on the twenty-ninth day of the same month, and doth hereby make the following regulation in lieu thereof.

REGULATION.

25. (1.) (a.) All moneys belonging to the National Provident Fund shall, as from the 1st day of April, 1921, be specially invested by the Public Trustee as hereinafter provided.

(b.) As from the first day of the month following the receipt of any such moneys, the Public Trustee shall allocate to the amount of such moneys then in hand securities held by him on behalf of the Common Fund of the Public Trust Office, at the rate of interest prevailing at that time in respect of Common Fund investments.

(c.) Where the moneys of the Common Fund have during that financial year been invested in different classes of securities bearing varying rates of interest, allocation for the purposes of paragraph (b) hereof shall be pro rata amongst such securities.

(d.) For his services in and about the collection of interest or otherwise in respect of such securities the Public Trustee shall be entitled to charge and deduct from such interest a fee of £4 per centum per annum in respect of interest received from mortgages, and £2 10s. per centum per annum on debenture interest.

(2.) In respect of the moneys of the National Provident Fund invested prior to the 1st day of April, 1921, the following provisions shall apply:

(a.) On that date the Public Trustee shall allocate from the existing investments of the Common Fund of the Public Trust Office such securities as may be mutually agreed on by the Superintendent of the National Provident Fund and the Public Trustee, and the securities so allocated shall on and after that date be deemed to be held in respect of investments of moneys belonging to the National Provident Fund, and all moneys thereafter payable by way of interest on such securities or for the redemption thereof, or otherwise

in respect thereof, shall form part of the National Provident Fund, and shall be dealt with by the Public Trustee as prescribed in subclause (1) hereof.

(b.) The securities so to be taken over shall be selected so that a due proportion of the investments at each separate rate of interest in the Common Fund of the Public Trust Office shall be taken over.

(c.) The Public Trustee's remuneration for his services in respect of these investments shall be regulated by paragraph (d) of subclause (1) hereof.

(3.) In the event of any dispute between the Superintendent of the National Provident Fund and the Public Trustee in respect of any matters arising out of this regulation, the matter shall be submitted to the Controller and Auditor-General, and his decision shall be final and conclusive.

C.A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Auckland Grammar School Board declared a Leasing Authority under the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 27th day of April, 1921.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Auckland Grammar School Board (a body corporate constituted under the Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899) is a body of persons having power to lease lands held in trust, reserved, or set apart for educational purposes, and has requested the Governor-General in Council to declare it to be a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in compliance with such request, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred by the above-mentioned Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the Auckland Grammar School Board is a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

C.A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorizing the Te Awamutu Electric-power Board to construct Electric Works.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of April, 1921.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section forty-nine of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, as amended by section seventeen of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, 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 authorize the Te Awamutu Electric-power Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") to erect electric lines and substations for the transmission and distribution of electrical energy in the Te Awamutu Electric-power District as defined by Proclamation dated the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1, of the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, 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.

CONDITIONS.

1. No electric lines shall be used for the distribution of electrical energy until the Board has obtained a license for that 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 the Board.

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