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 money may be borrowed be not exceeding six per centum per annum:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and 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 Franklin County Council in respect of the said loan of two thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Franklin County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of two thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Akaaka Drainage Board in respect of a Loan of £700 authorized to be raised for repaying its Antecedent Liability.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 2lst day of May, 1923.
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 Akaaka Drainage Board is authorized to borrow the sum of seven hundred pounds for repaying its antecedent liability:

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 money may be borrowed be not exceeding six per centum per annum:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and 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 Akaaka Drainage Board in respect of the said loan of seven hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Akaaka Drainage Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of seven hundred pounds accordingly.

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

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 Taumarunui Hospital Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of forty-five thousand pounds for erecting new hospital buildings at Taumarunui:

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 money may be borrowed be not exceeding six per centum per annum:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him as aforesaid, and 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 Taumarunui Hospital Board in respect of the said loan of forty-five thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Taumarunui Hospital Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of forty-five thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Partial Revocation of Order in Council setting apart Land under the Workers' Dwellings Act, 1910.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 2lst day of May, 1923.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and gazetted on the twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, the land described in the Schedule hereto was (inter alia) set apart for the purposes of the Workers' Dwellings Act, 1910:

And whereas it now appears that the said land is no longer required for such purposes:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by subsection two of section nine of the Housing Act, 1919, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council in so far as it relates to the said land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 roods, more or less, being Sections 4 and 6 Block XCIX, Town of Waitara West Survey District.

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

Declaring Land to be no longer subject to Part XIV of the Native Land Act, 1909.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 2lst day of May, 1923.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section ninety-six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor-General in Council may from time to time by Order in Council declare that any land subject to Part XIV or XV of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), and vested in a Maori Land Board, shall no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and shall be revested in the Native owners thereof:

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is at present subject to Part XIV of the said Act, and is