FEB. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 595

And whereas the Wairarapa Electric-power Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of fifty thousand pounds for financing intending consumers and purchasing stock, &c., to be repaid within forty years from the raising of the same:

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 term for which the said fifty thousand pounds may be borrowed be five years:

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 term for which the Wairarapa Electric-power Board may borrow the said sum of fifty thousand pounds shall be five years, and the said Wairarapa Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of fifty thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Mount Albert Borough Council in respect of £1,300, being a Further Part of a Loan of £100,000 authorized to be raised for Road-works and the Purchase of Plant.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 18th day of February, 1924.
Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments it is provided 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, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:

And whereas the Mount Albert Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of one hundred thousand pounds for roadworks and the purchase of plant, and is now desirous of borrowing one thousand three hundred pounds, being a further part of the loan of one hundred 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 one thousand three hundred pounds 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 Mount Albert Borough Council in respect of the said sum of one thousand three hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Mount Albert Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one thousand three hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Uawa County Council in respect of £6,000 authorized to be raised for providing Electric Light and Power for the Township of Tolaga Bay.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of February, 1924.
Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921, and its amendments, it is provided 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, as may be prescribed by the Governor-General by Order in Council:

And whereas the Uawa County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of six thousand pounds for providing electric light and power for the Township of Tolaga Bay:

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

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

Appointing a Member of the Havelock Harbour Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
WHEREAS it is provided by section 38 of the Harbours Act, 1923, that, in the event of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a non-elective member of a Harbour Board, the Governor-General shall, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas Harcourt Williams, a non-elective member of the Havelock Harbour Board, has resigned his office by writing under his hand delivered to the Secretary of the Board, and an extraordinary vacancy in the membership of the Board has been created, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the herein-before-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint William George Twidle to be a member of the Havelock Harbour Board in the place of Harcourt Williams, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of February, 1924.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th February, 1924.
IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Charles Ernest Seabright to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Taranaki Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 20th day of February, 1924.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1924.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Charles Ernest Seabright to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.