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per centum, and the said Timaru Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five thousand pounds accordingly.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest to be paid by the Matau River Board in respect of a Loan of £200 for the Purpose of completing River-protection Works.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1921.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS section eleven of the Finance 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, at a specified rate of interest, or for a specified term exceeding ten years, 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 Matau River Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of two thousand pounds for river-protection works, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional two hundred 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 eleven, and it is desired that the rate of interest at which the money 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 Matau River Board in respect of the loan of two hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum, and the said Matau River Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of two hundred pounds accordingly.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations as to Remuneration of Members of Local Railway Boards under the Local Railways Act, 1914.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1921.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Local Railways Act, 1914, 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 make the following regulations for the purposes of section thirty-four of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. INTERPRETATION.---"Board" means a Railway Board of a railway district duly constituted in accordance with the provisions of the Local Railways Act, 1914.
   "Member" means a member of a Board duly elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Local Railways Act, 1914, but does not include the Chairman of a Board.

2. The remuneration which a Board may pay out of its funds to any member for attendance at meetings of the Board or of any committee of the Board shall not exceed £1 1s. for each such meeting.

3. The maximum amount which may be paid to any member in respect of any one day shall not exceed £1 1s., notwithstanding that such member may have attended one or more meetings of the Board or of any committee of the Board on such day.

4. (a.) The remuneration which the Board may pay to any member of the Board for transacting any business of the Board pursuant to a resolution of the Board shall not exceed £1 Is. per day for each day during the whole of which such member is engaged in transacting such business.
   (b.) No claim of any member of the Board for such remuneration shall be recognized by the Board unless such claim is accompanied by the certificate of such member stating the days on which he was wholly engaged in transacting such business.
   (c.) Such certificate shall be in the following form:---
   I, [Full name, occupation, and address], hereby certify that I was wholly engaged in transacting the business of the [Name of Board] Railway Board, in pursuance of the Board's resolution dated the day of , 19 , on the following days [Day, date, month, and year].
   [Signature.]

5. No payment of remuneration under these regulations to any member of a Board shall be made unless such payment is first passed at a meeting of the Board.
   C. A. JEFFERY,
   Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Recreation Reserve in Southland Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1921.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Southland Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter form part of the Edendale Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain by the Edendale Domain Board.
SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
ALL that area, containing 3 acres, more or less, being part Lot 235 on deposited plan No. 128, part of Section 7, Block II, Mataura Hundred, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 115, folio 61, Invercargill Registry.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Coal-trade Regulations.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1921.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers 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 that Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations specified in the Schedule hereto, being regulations made under the War Regulations Act, 1914, and continued in force as Board of Trade Regulations pursuant to the provisions in that behalf of the War Regulations Continuance Act, 1920.
SCHEDULE.
THE Coal-trade Regulations, dated 5th February, 1917, and amending regulations dated 28th August, 1917; 29th May, 1918; 2nd June, 1919; 15th July, 1919; and 15th August, 1919.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.