2944
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

the number specified in the second column of the Schedule
hereto opposite the name of that constituent or combined
district.

SCHEDULE.

First Column.
CONSTITUENT districts—
Patangata County (p)
Otane Town District
Waipawa County
Waipukurau County
Waipukurau Borough
Waipawa Borough

Second Column.
Combined district 3 members.
3 ,,
1 ,,
1 ,,
1 ,,

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Authorizing the Purchase by the Central Electric-power Board
of the Ngaruawahia Borough Electric Works.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of
November, 1922.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the
Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, and of
all other powers in anywise enabling him in that 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 the said Dominion, doth hereby autho-
rize the purchase by the Central Electric-power Board, duly
constituted under the provisions of the Electric-power Boards
Act, 1918, of the electric works erected in pursuance of the
license issued to the Ngaruawahia Borough Council on the
thirteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred
and fifteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 143,
page 4041, of the sixteenth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen.

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

Conferring Jurisdiction on the Native Land Court under
Section 25 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of
November, 1922.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-five of the Native Land
Act, 1909, it is enacted that, in addition to the
jurisdiction elsewhere in the said Act conferred upon the
Native Land Court, the Governor-General may by Order in
Council confer upon the Court, as effectually as if the same
was conferred by the said Act, jurisdiction in any matter
or question affecting the rights of Natives in any real or
personal property, and thereupon the Court shall have full
jurisdiction and power to determine that matter or question
according to law :

And whereas application has been made that jurisdiction
be conferred on the Native Land Court, pursuant to the said
section twenty-five, for the purpose of ascertaining the
persons entitled to a sum of money held by the Waiapu
Farmers’ Co-operative Company (Limited), being the proceeds
of the sale of certain sheep lately depasturing on the Hine-
tirahi Block in the Tairawhiti Native Land Court District :

And whereas it is expedient to confer such jurisdiction
accordingly :

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 section
twenty-five of the Native Land Act, 1909, and acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby confer upon the Native
Land Court jurisdiction to hear and determine who are the
persons entitled to the sum of money above mentioned or
any part thereof, and to make such order or orders in that
behalf as to the Court shall seem fit.

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 3rd day of
November, 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.

DANNEVIRKE Electric-power Board (for electrical
reticulation) .. .. .. .. £ 175,000
Hamilton Borough Council (for Frankton surface-
water drainage) .. .. .. .. 30,000
Hamilton Borough Council (for Hamilton surface-
water drainage) .. .. .. .. 22,000
Hamilton Borough Council (for waterworks) .. 10,000
Hamilton Borough Council (for sanitary works) .. 7,000
Hamilton Borough Council (for streets improve-
ments, &c.) .. .. .. .. 80,000
Waipa County Council (for metalling roads in the
Mangapiko Riding) .. .. .. .. 6,000
Waimate Borough Council (for drainage extensions) 5,000
Te Awamutu Borough Council (for repaying its
antecedent liability) .. .. .. .. 3,546
Onehunga Borough Council (for relief of unemploy-
ment in the Borough of Onehunga) .. .. 3,000
Christchurch City Council (for paying off a loan
raised by the St. Albans Borough Council which
matures on the 1st January, 1923) .. .. 3,000
New Lynn Town Board (for completing water-
reticulation) .. .. .. .. 1,550
Cook County Council (for metalling and improving
portion of the Totangi Road) .. .. 1,000
Kaitieke County Council (for widening, culverting,
bridging, and improving Retaruke Road) .. 1,000
Papakura Town Board (for road formation and
metalling) .. .. .. .. 450
Franklin County Council (for metalling Sandspit
Road) .. .. .. .. 450
Waimea County Council (for forming and metalling
Horton’s Road) .. .. .. .. 200

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

Declaring the Isleworth Settlement Road, in the Coldstream Road
District, to be a District Road.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of
November, 1922.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by
the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in
anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Go-
vernor-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 order and declare that the
road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the
date of this Order in Council, become a district road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Canterbury Land District, Coldstream
Road District, known as the Isleworth Settlement Road,
commencing at its junction with Surveyors Road, and pro-
ceeding thence generally in a southerly direction, adjoining
or passing through Sections 3, 4, 5, and 8, Block XI, and