1634
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Amendment of Regulations under the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, relating to Patents.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, and of all other powers 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 Order in Council under the said Act, making regulations relating to patents, dated the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and gazetted on the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, in the manner hereinafter appearing, namely:—

The First Schedule, containing the list of fees payable, is hereby amended by the omission of the word “since” and insertion in place thereof of the words “or part of a month from the lapse of the patent to the,” in the sentence “on restoration of lapsed patent, for each month since date of application for restoration.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING 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.

Auckland Harbour Board (for the completion of Princes Wharf and other works) .. .. £ 250,000
Taumarunui Borough Council (for street improvements) .. .. .. .. 24,600
Waipukurau Borough Council (for the purchase of land, and building and equipping a municipal theatre and shops) .. .. .. .. 14,000
Mount Albert Borough Council (for constructing an overhead bridge at Kingsland) .. .. 11,000
Whangarei County Council (for road formation and metalling) .. .. .. .. 8,000
Ngaruawahia Borough Council (for water-supply) .. .. .. .. 5,000
Hastings Borough Council (for renewing a maturing loan) .. .. .. .. 4,000
Whangarei Hospital Board (for completing a nurses’ home) .. .. .. .. 3,500
Raetihi Borough Council (for electrical extension) .. .. .. .. 3,000
Waitotara County Council (for formation of Maungapapa Road) .. .. .. .. 1,500
Mangapapa Town Board (for completing roads and levels) .. .. .. .. 365
Greytown Borough Council (for completing the purchase of a gas-making plant) .. .. 250

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £4,000, being the Balance of a Loan of £14,000 authorized to be raised by the Gore Borough 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 7th day of June, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL 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 Gore Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of fourteen thousand pounds for the purpose of drainage and water-supply to West Gore:

And whereas application has been made by the Borough Council for the consent of His Excellency the Governor-General in Council to the raising of four thousand pounds, being the balance of the above-mentioned loan of fourteen 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 Gore Borough Council raising the said loan of four 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 Gore Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of four thousand pounds accordingly.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Constituting the Eastern Pohangina Rabbit District.—Notice No Ag. 2272.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section sixty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), as amended by the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1918, it is provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, on petition in that behalf from a majority of the ratepayers therein, constitute and declare any part of New Zealand defined in such Order in Council a district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

And whereas a petition in accordance with the provisions of the said Act has been received, asking that the lands described in the Schedule hereto be constituted and declared a rabbit district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act and its amendments, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute by the specific name of “the Eastern Pohangina Rabbit District” and declare that part of New Zealand defined in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act; and doth hereby further declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall, in terms of the said Act, consist of six members.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded on the east by the eastern boundary of the Pohangina County and