Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Te Araroa Domain.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day of May, 1923.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), 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 revoke an Order in Council dated the eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and published in the Gazette of the tenth day of that month, appointing a Domain Board to have control of the Te Araroa Domain, and doth hereby appoint

CARL LUDWIG HANSEN,
GEORGE MCKENZIE McKEDDIE,
THOMAS McLACHLAN,
WILLIAM ROBERT MORELL, and
RODERICK DAWSON MACLEAN

to be the Te Araroa Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and doth hereby appoint Saturday, the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at two o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the Commercial Room of the Kawakawa Hotel, Te Araroa, as the place where, the first meeting of the said Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

TE ARAROA DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing 15 acres 1 rood 12 perches, more or less, being Section 33, Te Araroa Native Township, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 64, folio 156, Gisborne Registry.

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

Declaring Portion of the Otunui Road, in the Ohura County, to be a County Road.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day of May, 1923.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING 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 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 order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the Otunui Road, in the Taranaki Land District, Ohura County, commencing at its junction with the Aramahoe Road, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction, adjoining or passing through Section 8 (scenic reserve) and Section 2, Block VIII, Ohura Survey District, and terminating on the boundary between the said Section 2 and Section 5, Block VIII, Ohura Survey District, at a point about five chains north of the north-eastern corner of Section 7 (papa reserve), Block VIII, Ohura Survey District; being a distance of fifty-four chains, more or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57009, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Education.—Regulations regarding the Payment of Subsidies on Voluntary Contributions.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day of May, 1923.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1914, and the amendments of that Act, and all other powers and authorities enabling him in this 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 amend the regulations in force relating to the payment of subsidies on voluntary contributions by repealing clause 4A thereof, and doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force as from the date hereof.

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

Invercargill Fire District constituted.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day of May, 1923.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section four of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor-General may by Order in Council, on the application of any Borough Council, declare the district within the jurisdiction of such Borough Council to be a fire district under the said Act: And whereas an application has been made by the Invercargill Borough Council in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and it appears expedient to grant the said application:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare the Borough of Invercargill to be a fire district under the said Act.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Matamata County Council in respect of a Loan of £10,000 authorized to be raised for metalling certain Lengths of Putaruru-Tokoroa Ridings Roads.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st 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 Matamata County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of ten thousand pounds for metalling certain lengths of the Putaruru-Tokoroa Ridings roads: