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 term for which the said twenty-four thousand pounds may be borrowed be reduced to ten years and the Power Board be authorized to pay interest at a rate not exceeding six and a half 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 term for which the Opunake Electric-power Board may borrow the said sum of twenty-four thousand pounds shall be ten years, and the rate of interest payable thereon shall be not exceeding six and a half per centum per annum, and the said Opunake Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of twenty-four thousand pounds on these terms.

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Whangarei Borough Council may borrow £1,300 for the Completion of the Sewerage Extension, being One-tenth of the Original Loan of £13,000 authorized to be raised for Sewerage.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1922.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING 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 Whangarei Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of thirteen thousand pounds for sewerage extension for a term of twenty years, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional thirteen hundred pounds under the authority of section eighteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for a term of ten years:

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 term for which the said thirteen hundred pounds may be borrowed be reduced to ten years:

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 term for which the Whangarei Borough Council may borrow the said sum of thirteen hundred pounds shall be ten years, and the said Whangarei Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of thirteen hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Whangarei Borough Council may borrow £3,800 for the Completion of the Waterworks Extension, being One-tenth of the Original Loan of £38,000 authorized to be raised for Waterworks Extension, and also the Rate of Interest payable thereon.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1922.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING 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 Whangarei Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of thirty-eight thousand pounds for waterworks extension for a term of thirty-three and a half years, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional three thousand eight hundred pounds under the authority of section eighteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for a term of ten years, and at six per centum per annum:

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 term for which the said three thousand eight hundred pounds may be borrowed be reduced to ten years and the Council be authorized to pay interest at a rate 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 term for which the Whangarei Borough Council may borrow the said sum of three thousand eight hundred pounds shall be ten years, and the rate of interest payable shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Whangarei Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of three thousand eight hundred pounds on these terms accordingly.

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

Setting aside Native Land as a Native Reservation, and vesting in the Matakaoa County Council as Trustees.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1922.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty-two of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted, inter alia, that when any Native freehold land is owned at law or in equity by more than ten owners in common the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, set apart and reserve any part of that land for the common use of the owners thereof as a place of historical and scenic interest, and may by the same or any subsequent Order in Council vest such land in any body corporate on trust to hold and administer the same for the benefit of the beneficial owners thereof in accordance with the regulations for the time being governing the same:

And whereas the Tairawhiti District Native Land Court has recommended that the land described in the Schedule hereto be set apart and reserved under the provisions of section two hundred and thirty-two of the Native Land Act, 1909, as a place of historical and scenic interest for the common use of the owners thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and all other powers thereunto him enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby set apart and reserve for the common use of the owners thereof as a place of historical and scenic interest the Native freehold land described in the Schedule hereto, to be a Native reservation within the meaning of the said Act, and it is hereby directed and declared that the Native reservation constituted as aforesaid be and the same is hereby vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Matakaoa, a body corporate, on trust to hold and administer the same for the benefit of the beneficial owners thereof in accordance with the regulations for the time being governing the same.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land, situate in the Land Registration District of Poverty Bay, called or known as Whetumatara A Block (Whetumatara Pa), containing 243 acres 0 roods 28 perches, more or less, and comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 21st day of October, 1918.

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