APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1039

SCHEDULE.

CONDITIONS OF MANAGEMENT.

1. In these conditions the term “Minister” means the Minister of Marine as defined by the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. All His Majesty's subjects shall at all reasonable times, and upon payment of the proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the above-mentioned wharf, and rights of ingress and egress thereto and therefrom.

3. His Majesty or the Governor-General, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into, over, and out of the said wharf without payment.

4. The Council shall maintain and keep the above-mentioned wharf, and all erections on or in connection with the wharf, in good order and repair; and shall at all times exhibit therefrom, and maintain at its own cost, suitable and necessary lights for the guidance of vessels; provided that no new light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved by the Minister.

5. All dues and rates received on account of the said wharf by the Council shall be applied to keeping the said wharf, and all erections on or in connection with such wharf, in good order and repair.

6. Any person authorized by the Minister may at all reasonable times enter upon the said wharf, and any buildings erected on the wharf or in connection therewith, and view the state of repair thereof; and upon his leaving at or posting to the last known address of the Council in New Zealand a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such wharf or buildings, requiring the Council, within a reasonable time, to be therein prescribed, to make good or repair the same, the Council shall, with all convenient speed, cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

7. The Council shall not erect, or suffer to be erected, on the said wharf any building or structure whatever, except with the consent of the Minister.

8. The Council shall keep a separate account of the receipts and expenditure on account of such wharf and premises, and shall cause such account to be balanced to the 31st day of March in every year, and shall send a copy of such account when balanced to the Minister, and shall supply any particulars in reference thereto as may be required by the Minister.

9. The Council shall appoint all officers necessary for the working and management of the wharf.

10. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Council to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions of the Harbours Act, 1923, or its amendments, or any regulations thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

11. The rights, powers, and privileges hereby conferred shall continue in force for fourteen years, computed from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the Council shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.

12. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred under or by virtue of this Order in Council may be at any time resumed by the Governor-General, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the Council three calendar months’ notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the Council in New Zealand.

13. The Council shall be liable for any injury which may be caused at the said wharf to any vessel or boat through any default or neglect on the part of the Council.

14. In case the Council shall-

(1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them; or

(2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of thirty consecutive days,-

then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council, and every license, right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor-General in Council without any notice to the Council or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the Council, 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 recover the cost incurred by any such removal from the Council!

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

Portions of Road in Block 1, Oamaru Survey District, Waitaki County, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1924.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
I N pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Waitaki County Council on the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, viz.-
“The Waitaki County Council, the local authority having control of the roads bounding Section one (1) of fifty-six (56) and Section fifty-seven (57), Block one (1), Oamaru district, hereby declares that the provisions of section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the north-western side of the road along the south-eastern boundary of said Section one of fifty-six (1 of 56) nor the north-eastern side of the road along the south-western boundary of said Section one of fifty-six (1 of 56) and Section fifty-seven (57)”; such portions of road being described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

The north-western side of all that portion of road situated in the Otago Land District, Waitaki County, fronting on the south-eastern boundary of Section 1 of 56, Block 1, Oamaru Survey District.

Also, the north-eastern side of all that portion of road situated in the said Land District and county fronting on the south-western boundary of Section 1 of 56 and Section 57, Block 1, Oamaru Survey District.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 59165, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Leamington Town Board in respect of a Loan of £600, authorized to be raised for the Purpose of paying the Board's Proportion of the Cost of improving the High-level Bridge over the Waikato River at Cambridge.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1924.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., 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 Leamington Town Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of six hundred pounds for the purpose of paying the Board's proportion of the cost of improving the High-level Bridge over the Waikato River at Cambridge :

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