1732

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 53

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 Awakino-Te Kuiti Road, in the Auckland Land District, Waitomo County, commencing at its junction with the Manganui Road, and proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly and easterly direction, adjoining or passing through Sections 5 N.R., 1, 3, and 4, Block VIII, Section 2, Block VI, Section 2, Block IX, Section 3, Block VI, Section 1, Block IX, Section 3, Block IV, all in Awakino North Survey District; Sections 4 and 3, Block V, Awakino East Survey District; and terminating at its junction with the lower Awakino Valley Road; being a distance of thirteen miles, more or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57098, 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.

Prescribing Dues for the Use of Messrs. Lichtenstein, Arnoldson, and Company’s Wharf at Onetangi Bay, Waiheke Island.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of June, 1923.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 27, of the twenty-ninth day of the same month, Max Lichtenstein, Louis Arnoldson, Max Paykel, and Albert Paykel, trading under the style or title of “Lichtenstein, Arnoldson, and Co.” (hereinafter called “the licensees”), were licensed to use and occupy a part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark at Onetangi Bay, Waiheke Island, as shown on plan marked M.D. 5641, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, in order to erect thereon a wharf as shown on the plan so deposited as aforesaid, for a period of fourteen years computed from the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three:

And whereas it is considered expedient to prescribe dues to be charged and taken for the use of the said wharf:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the Harbours Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the dues set forth in the Schedule hereto shall be taken and received by the licensees for the use of the said wharf.

SCHEDULE.

SHIPPING WHARFAGE.

EVERY person who shall use the said wharf with any vessel shall pay for the use thereof as follows, that is to say:—

For every vessel a sum of 1d. per ton on the gross tonnage of such vessel per day for each day or part of a day a vessel shall occupy a berth alongside any vessel laying at the said wharf, or shall lay at the said wharf undergoing repairs or fitting out only, or shall lay off the said wharf with a line attached thereto.

GOODS WHARFAGE.

Every person who shall use the said wharf for landing or shipping any goods shall, before using same, pay dues as follows, that is to say:—

1. For all goods landed on the said wharf, a rate of 2s. 6d. per ton weight or measurement, at the option of the licensees.

2. For every head of cattle or horses landed upon or shipped from the said wharf, 2s. 6d. per head.

3. For every yearling or calf so landed upon or shipped from the said wharf, the sum of 1s. per head.

4. For every head of sheep or small cattle so landed upon or shipped from the said wharf, the sum of 6d. per head.

5. If any ship shall use the said wharf for the discharge of any goods or cargo after the usual working-hours or on wharf holidays, such ship shall pay to the licensees for the use of the said wharf a charge at the rate of 1s. per ton on all goods or cargo so discharged from such ship.

This charge will only be made when, in the opinion of the wharfinger, it is necessary to employ labour to stack or remove cargo in sheds in consequence of the discharge of such goods or cargo as aforesaid.

PASSENGERS.

For every passenger who shall land on or be shipped from the said wharf, the sum of 1s.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Westland Hospital Board in respect of a Loan of £7,000 authorized to be raised for completing its Building Scheme.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of June, 1923.

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 Westland Hospital Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of seven thousand pounds for completing its building scheme:

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 Westland Hospital Board in respect of the said loan of seven thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Westland Hospital Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of seven thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Special Duty on Goods from Countries having a Depreciated Currency.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of June, 1923.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section seven of the Customs Amendment Act, 1922, and of all other powers and authorities 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 determine that the special duty chargeable pursuant to section thirteen of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, in respect of goods imported from countries having a depreciated currency shall, in the case of goods imported from countries where the depreciation in the commercial or banking value of the monetary unit in relation to the sovereign exceeds at the date of exportation 90 per centum of the value of that unit in accordance with the mintage rate of exchange, be at the rate of thirty-three and one-third per centum ad valorem.

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