Schedule hereto, 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 said loans.

SCHEDULE.

Devonport Borough Council (for road improvements)
Timaru Borough Council (for liquidating antecedent
liability)
Teviot Electric-power Board (for hydro-electric purposes)
Whangarei Hospital Board (for erecting a nurses' home)
Eltham County Council (for roads construction in the South Riding)
Napier Borough Council (for erecting workers' dwellings)
Vincent County Council (for erecting workers' dwellings)
Raetihi Borough Council (for metalling road to hospital, taking water-mains to hospital, forming footpath to cemetery, &c.)
Foxton Borough Council (for paying off Council's antecedent liability)
Otorohanga Town Board (for renewal purposes)

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of June, 1922.
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; 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 said loans.

SCHEDULE.

Wairarapa Electric-power Board (for electrical reticulation)
Te Awamutu Electric-power Board (for assisting consumers to install motors and electric plant)
Hastings Borough Council (for repaying maturing loan)
Clifton County Council (for reconstructing bridges within the county)
Picton Borough Council (for completing the sewerage scheme)
Waitemata County Council (for road construction, metalling, bridge and culvert building, and approaches thereto, in the Kaukapakapa Riding)
Awatere County Council (for paying the Council's quota towards the capital charges of the Wairau Hospital Board)
Te Puke Land Drainage Board (for completing Raparapahoe Drain and widening Kopuaro Drain)
Wellington City Council (for completion of Miramar Sewerage Scheme)
Wellington City Council (for extension of Miramar Sewerage Scheme)
Waitemata County Council (for bridge-building and quarry-equipment in the Kaukapakapa Riding)
Rangitikei County Council (for meeting the Council's contribution of the proposed capital expenditure by the Manawatu Gorge Board of Control)
Carterton Borough Council (for completing improvements to gasworks)

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

Consenting to the Raising of £5,000, being a Further Part of a Loan of £209,000 authorized to be raised by the Patangata County Council on the Instalment System extending over a Period of Thirty-six and a Half Years.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 12th day of June, 1922.
Present:
The Right Honourable W. F. Massey, P.C., Presiding in Council.
WHEREAS section thirteen of the Finance Act, 1921, provides that where any local authority, as defined by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, has heretofore been or shall hereafter be authorized to raise a loan, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise, and whether such loan has been raised in part or not, such local authority may, with the consent of the Governor-General in Council, raise any part of such loan upon terms of making the same, together with interest thereon, repayable by instalments extending over such period of years, whether in excess of the period mentioned in the poll taken on the proposal for such loan or not, and payable at such times as may be fixed by such local authority, and may permanently appropriate and pledge for the purpose of securing such instalments any special rate already made or hereafter to be made, or any part of such special rate:
And whereas the Patangata County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of two hundred and nine thousand pounds for the purpose of re-erecting and reconstructing all the bridges and culverts in the county, and has been unable to raise the whole amount on the terms specified:
And whereas application has been made by the County Council for the consent of his Excellency the Governor-General in Council to the raising of five thousand pounds, being a further part of the above-mentioned two hundred and nine thousand pounds, on the instalment system extending over a period of thirty-six and a half 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 consent to the Patangata County Council raising the sum of five thousand pounds upon the terms of making the same, together with interest thereon, repayable by instalments extending over a period of thirty-six and a half years, and the said Patangata County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five thousand pounds on these terms.

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

Closing St. Stephen's Cemetery, Parnell, Auckland.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of June, 1922.
Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General In Council.
WHEREAS it appears to the Governor-General that burials in St. Stephen's Cemetery, Parnell, Auckland, which said cemetery is described in the Schedule hereto, should be wholly discontinued: And whereas a sufficient cemetery not within the limits of any borough or town district has been provided, and has been prepared for the interment of the dead, as required by the Cemeteries Act, 1908:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the authorities vested in him by the said Cemeteries Act, 1908, doth hereby order and direct that, from and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the St. Stephen's Cemetery, Parnell, Auckland, described in the aforesaid Schedule, shall be closed, and burials therein discontinued; and, further, that the said cemetery shall, from and after the said first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, be vested in the General Church Trust, under the provisions and for the purposes of the seventy-eighth section of the said Cemeteries Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

St. Stephen's Cemetery, Parnell, Auckland.
All that area in the North Auckland Land District being part of Lot 3 of Section 2, Suburbs of Auckland, and known as St. Stephen's Cemetery.

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