may be revoked and determined by the Governor-General in Council without any notice to the company or other proceedings whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the company, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined; and upon such revocation the Minister may cause the said wharf to be removed, and may cover the cost incurred by any such removal from the company.

14. The erection of the said wharf shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the company of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

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 25th day of June, 1923.
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.
ONEHUNGA Borough Council (for drainage) . . £ 1,600 Clutha County Council (for rebuilding or re-erecting bridges over 30 ft. span) . . . . . 12,000 Tamahere Road Board (for road-construction) . . 5,000 Manukau County Council (for providing a public hall and recreation-ground in the Mangere Riding) . . 3,500 Hungahunga Drainage Board (for completion of drainage) . . . . . . . . 2,700 Waitomo County Council (for completing the metalling of the Te Kuiti-Awakino Road) . . . . 1,000 Manurewa Town Board (for acquiring land and the erection of a worker's dwelling) . . . . . . 900 Rangitikei County Council (for providing balance of Council's share of cost of bridge over Upper Kawhatau River, also bridge over Hikurangi River) Manukau County Council (for completing the construction of approaches to the Manurewa High-level Bridge) . . . . . . . . . 200 Taranaki County Council (for forming and metalling Upper Barrett Road) . . . . . . . 100

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Spring Creek Road Board in respect of a Loan of £1,200 authorized to be raised for paying its Share of the Capital Expenditure of the Wairau Hospital Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th 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 Spring Creek Road Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of one thousand two hundred pounds for paying its share of the capital expenditure of the Wairau Hospital Board:

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 Spring Creek Road Board in respect of the said loan of one thousand two hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Spring Creek Road Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one thousand two hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Taumarunui Borough Council in respect of £5,000, being a Further Part of a Loan of £32,000 authorized to be raised for Street Improvements.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th 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 Taumarunui Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of thirty-two thousand pounds for street improvements, and is now desirous of borrowing the sum of five thousand pounds (being a further part of the thirty-two thousand pounds) at an increased rate of interest:

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 said five thousand pounds may be borrowed be increased to 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 Borough Council in respect of the five thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Taumarunui Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Thames County Council in respect of a Loan of £8,200 authorized to be raised for repaying its Antecedent Liability.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th 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