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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Mount Eden Borough Council in respect of the forty-five thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six and a half per centum per annum, and the said Mount Eden Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of forty-five thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Central Electric-power Board in respect of £50,000, being Part of a Loan of £200,000 authorized to be raised for Reticulation and supplying Electric Power.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of February, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Central Electric-power Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of two hundred thousand pounds for reticulation and supplying electric power, and is now desirous of borrowing fifty thousand pounds, being part of the two hundred thousand pounds, at an increased rate of interest :

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 said fifty 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 Central Electric-power Board in respect of the said fifty thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six and a half per centum per annum, and the Central Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of fifty thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Regulations as to Sale of Intoxicating Liquor in the Cook Islands.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day February, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, as amended by section twelve of the Cook Islands Amendment Act, 1921, 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 with respect to the sale of intoxicating liquor in the Cook Islands.

REGULATIONS.

1. ANY intoxicating liquor imported by a Resident Commissioner, which is retained in the custody and control of a Collector of Customs or other European officer in the Cook Islands Public Service authorized in that behalf by the Resident Commissioner and is available for sale, may be sold for medicinal, sacramental, or industrial purposes by the Collector or other custodian for cash on delivery at such prices as may be approved by the Resident Commissioner, not being less than the landed cost thereof.

2. No intoxicating liquor shall be sold for medicinal purposes except in pursuance of a certificate issued by a medical officer, within one month prior to the delivery of the liquor so sold, to the effect that alcoholic liquor is required by the purchaser or members of his family for medical reasons. Every such certificate shall set out the nature and quantity of the liquor so required, and shall specify precisely the purpose for which it is required.

3. No intoxicating liquor shall be sold for sacramental purposes except to a minister of religion approved for this purpose by the Resident Commissioner.

4. No intoxicating liquor shall be sold for industrial purposes except in pursuance of the written authority of the Resident Commissioner.

5. The Collector or other custodian shall keep a record, in form approved by the Resident Commissioner, of all intoxicating liquor received or disposed of by him, whether by way of sale or otherwise.

6. Every person who deceives or attempts to deceive a Collector of Customs, or other custodian of intoxicating liquor, or the Resident Commissioner, or a medical officer, with intent to procure, by purchase or otherwise, any intoxicating liquor shall be liable to imprisonment for three months or to a fine of fifty pounds.

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

Amending a Warrant setting apart Crown Land under Section 20 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of that month, an area of 42 acres 3 roods 11 perches, as being Section 11, Block XV, Hohoura East Survey District, in the North Auckland Land District, was set apart for disposal under section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912 :

And whereas an error was made in describing the said section as Section 11, Block XV, Hohoura East Survey District, and describing the area as 42 acres 3 roods 11 perches ;

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby amend the Warrant dated the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, hereinbefore referred to, by substituting the description as set forth in the Schedule hereto for the description of the said allotment set forth in the Schedule to the said Warrant of the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 11, Block V, Hohoura East Survey District: Area, 23 acres 1 rood 14 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 6th day of February, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in the Hawke’s Bay Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Friday, the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction ; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Waiapu County.—Block XVI, Mangaoporo Survey District.

Sections are situated about sixty chains from Ruatorea Post-office and five miles from Tuparoa.

Access by unformed road from the main road (Gisborne to Te Araroa). Good business and residential sites. Soil of fair quality. Sections 8, 9, 10, and 11 partly covered with gravel.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of February, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.