JUNE 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1525

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Stratford County Council in respect of £1,900, being Part of a Loan of £12,000 authorized to be raised for Road Improvements in North Riding and Machinery.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th 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 Stratford County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of twelve thousand pounds for road improvements in North Riding and machinery at a rate of interest not exceeding five and a half per centum per annum, and is unable to obtain the whole of the money at this rate:

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 sum of one thousand nine hundred pounds (being part of the said loan of twelve thousand pounds) may be borrowed be increased to 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 rate of interest that may be paid by the Stratford County Council in respect of the said loan of one thousand nine hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six and a half per centum per annum, and the said Stratford County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one thousand nine hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £4,690 to be raised by the Mangapapa Town Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of May, 1922.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Mangapapa Town Board, acting under and in pursuance of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan of four thousand six hundred and ninety pounds for the construction of roads and levels and the opening-up and development of the Matokitoki Gravel Pit:

And whereas the notices of intention to raise the loan and the notices of the poll are irregular, inasmuch as they were published partly in one newspaper and partly in another instead of wholly in one newspaper as required by sections 9 and 10 of the said Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings taken shall be valid to all intents and purposes as if the provisions of sections nine and ten of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, had been correctly complied with and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

Radio-Telegraphic Regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of May, 1922.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the tenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, a regulation was made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), fixing charges for the transmission of radio telegrams: And whereas it is desirable to revoke such regulation, and to make another in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the above-recited Order in Council and the regulation thereby made, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth order that the regulation so made shall be read as part of the regulations with respect to the transmission of radio telegrams made by Order in Council dated the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and shall take effect on the date of publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

CHARGES.

Ordinary, Urgent, Relaying.

3. Ordinary.—The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio telegram to or from ships (other than His Majesty’s ships when in New Zealand waters, ships registered in New Zealand or Australia, and ships trading exclusively between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand, or between ports on the coast of the Dominion of New Zealand) from or to any telegraph office in the Dominion of New Zealand shall be 10d. per word, allocated as follows:—

Ship-station charge .. .. 4d. per word.
Coast-station and inland charges .. 6d. ,,

The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio telegram to or from ships registered in New Zealand or Australia, and ships trading exclusively between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand, or (except as hereinafter provided) between ports on the coast of the Dominion of New Zealand, from or to any telegraph office in the Dominion of New Zealand shall be 5d. per word, allocated as follows:—

Ship-station charge .. .. 2d. per word.
Coast-station and inland charges .. 3d. ,,

The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio telegram to or from ships trading exclusively between the ports of Wellington and Lyttelton, from or to any telegraph office in the Dominion of New Zealand, shall be 2½d. per word, with a minimum charge of 1s. 3d. for each radio telegram, equal to a message of six words, allocated as follows:—

Ship-station charge .. .. 1d. per word.
Coast-station and inland charges .. 1½d. ,,

The charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio telegram to or from the mainland of New Zealand from or to Chatham Islands, shall be 6d. per word, and to His Majesty’s ships (when in New Zealand waters) 5d. per word.

The New Zealand coast-station charge on radio telegrams exchanged with the fixed stations of other administrations or with Rarotonga shall be 6d. per word.

Urgent.—The charge for an urgent radio telegram is the charge for an ordinary radio telegram plus the rates charged for urgent telegrams over the telegraph systems the message has to traverse.

Relaying.—Whenever Chatham Island Radio Station is used as a relaying-station the charge shall be 4d. per word.

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