JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1495

Ship-station charge: 2s. 6d. per 100 words or fraction thereof.

Coast-station and inland charges: 2s. 6d. per 100 words or fraction thereof.

The charge for the transmission of a Press radio-telegram to or from the mainland of New Zealand from or to Chatham Islands, Western Samoa, or Rarotonga (Cook Islands) shall be as set out hereunder:—

Chatham Islands: 5s. per 100 words or fraction thereof.

Western Samoa: 3d. per word, with a minimum charge of 5s. for each message.

Rarotonga (Cook Islands): 4½d. per word, with a minimum charge of 7s. 6d. for each message.

For Press radio-telegrams transmitted to a New Zealand coast-station for places beyond the Dominion, the charge shall be the rates mentioned above for Press radio-telegrams, and in addition thereto, for the onward transmission, the charges published in the table of “Cable Press Rates” in the “New Zealand Post and Telegraph Guide.”

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 Buildings at Wellington, this 16th day of June, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., 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.

Birkenhead Borough Council (for streets and footpaths construction) .. .. .. .. £17,000

Christchurch City Council (for completing the erection and furnishing of municipal offices) .. .. .. 5,000

Hamilton Borough Council (for constructing sewer-drains and drainage-works) .. .. .. 26,800

Hamilton Borough Council (for street-works) .. .. .. 70,000

Hamilton Borough Council (for repaying a portion of the Town Hall Loan) .. .. .. 2,200

Horowhenua County Council (for forming and metalling a portion of Te Whanga Road) .. .. .. 300

Kamo Town Board (for extension of electrical reticulation) .. .. .. 300

Kaikoura County Council (for electrical purposes) .. .. .. 1,370

Mount Roskill Road Board (for laying a water-main along Mount Albert Road) .. .. .. 1,250

Pahiatua County Council (for reconstructing Konini and Warren’s Bridges) .. .. .. 2,700

Raetihi Borough Council (for public works) .. .. .. 15,565

Raetihi Borough Council (for electrical extensions) .. .. .. 7,420

Raetihi Borough Council (for constructing swimming-baths) .. .. .. 850

Raglan County Council (for metalling certain portions of the Port Waikato to Tuakau Bridge Road) .. .. 4,000

Rotorua Borough Council (for improvement of streets, footpaths, and storm-water drainage, and the purchase of plant) .. .. .. 30,000

Turua Town Board (for the purpose of providing a public hall) .. .. .. .. 3,500

Waitomo County Council (for completing the metalling of Kāhuwera Road) .. .. .. 90

Waitomo County Council (for metalling roads in Te Mapara S.R.A.) .. .. .. .. 425

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

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan by the Waitemata County Council for the Purpose of discharging Existing Liabilities for the Acquisition of Land.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made under section thirty-nine of the Finance Act, 1921–22, for the consent of the Governor-General in Council to enable the local authority mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the sum of money set out therein for the purposes named:

And whereas it is expedient that such consent should be given:

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 borrowing of the said sum of money by the said local authority mentioned in the Schedule hereto:

And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of section thirty-nine of the Finance Act, 1921–22, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the borrowing of the said sum of money by the said local authority, in the manner provided by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, without taking the steps defined in sections eight to twelve of that Act.

SCHEDULE.

Waitemata County Council (for compensation for Lot 23 of Lots 5 and 8 of Allotment 190, Block III, Rangitoto Survey District, Takapuna Parish, 2 roods 0·6 perches taken for road purposes) .. .. £750

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

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of widening Heberden Avenue in the Borough of Sumner.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 16th day of June, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN 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 consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purpose of widening Heberden Avenue in the Borough of Sumner.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land permitted to be taken: 6 perches.

Portion of Section 2, Block II, Sumner Survey District (Borough of Sumner), (Canterbury R.D.) (S.O. 853/393.)

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 59292, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

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

Declaring Portion of the Purahotangahia Block Road in the Hawke’s Bay County, to be a County Road.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers