to which the Order relates, in like manner as if such residence
were residence in New Zealand :
And whereas the Governor-General in Council is satisfied
that Canada has made sufficient provision for the protection
of works first produced or published in New Zealand and
entitled to copyright therein :
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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on him as aforesaid, doth hereby direct that the
Copyright Act, 1913, shall extend as from the first day of
July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, to works
first published in the Dominion of Canada, as if such works
were first published in New Zealand; and doth further
direct that the said Copyright Act, 1913, shall extend in
respect of residence in the Dominion of Canada in like
manner as if such residence were residence in New Zealand.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Municipal Corporations Act, 1920.-Authorizing Investment of
Renewal Funds in Bonds, Debentures, or other Securities of
certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of
July, 1924.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section one hundred and seventeen of
the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920 (hereinafter
called "the said Act"), it is enacted that Renewal Fund
Commissioners appointed in pursuance of section one hundred
and fifteen of the said Act may invest all moneys received by
them for the purposes of a renewal fund in such securities
other than those mentioned in the said section as may be
authorized by the Governor-General in Council:
And whereas by Order in Council dated the first day of
April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and
gazetted on the seventeenth day of the same month Renewal
Fund Commissioners appointed under section one hundred and
fifteen of the said Act were authorized to invest all moneys
received by them for the purposes of a renewal fund in the
Common Fund of the Public Trust Office:
And whereas, in addition to the powers contained in the
said Order in Council, it is desirable that Renewal Fund
Commissioners should be authorized to invest such funds in
the bonds, debentures, or other securities of the local autho-
rities hereinafter mentioned:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred upon him by the said section
one hundred and seventeen and of all other powers and autho-
rities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby authorize Renewal Fund Commissioners
appointed under section one hundred and fifteen of the said
Act to invest all moneys received by them for the purposes
of a renewal fund in the bonds, debentures, or other securities
of any Municipal Corporation, or County Council, or Water-
supply Board, or River Board in New Zealand having authority
to borrow money, other than the local authority which has
appointed such Renewal Fund Commissioners.

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

Money-orders for Payment in Australia : Commission.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of
July, 1924.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,
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
fix the rate of commission set forth in the Schedule hereto
for the issue of money-orders payable in Australia and in

certain other places; and doth order and declare that any
rates of commission of similar purport heretofore made are
hereby revoked in so far as they are not in agreement with
the rate made in the said Schedule, but that otherwise any
such other rates shall remain in full force and virtue, and
shall be read and applied together with the charges hereby
fixed ; and doth further order and declare that such revocation
and the rate hereby fixed shall have effect on and after the
date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New
Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

MONEY-ORDERS (BY POST).
PAYABLE in the Australian States, Dutch 6d. for the first
East Indies, Ellice Islands, Federated £2 or fraction
Malay States, Fiji, New Guinea (British
thereof and 3d.
Administration), Gilbert Islands,
for each ad-
Nauru, Papua (British New Guinea), ditional £1 or
Solomon Islands, and Tonga fraction of £1.

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

Revocation of Regulation under Midwives Act, 1908.

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 by Order in Council dated the twenty-third
day of June, 1914, and gazetted on the twenty-fifth
day of the same month, regulations were made, inter alia,
fixing the fees to be paid under the Midwives Act, 1908, and
whereas it is considered desirable to revoke regulation Number
thirteen thereof:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Midwives
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 revoke the aforesaid regulation Number thirteen.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Glen
Eden Town Board in respect of a Loan of £1,500, authorized
to be raised for the Purchase and Improvement of Recreation-
grounds.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of
July, 1924.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921,
and its amendments, it is provided that, notwith-
standing 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 speci-
fied 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 Glen Eden Town Board has been autho-
rized to borrow the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds
for the purchase and improvement of recreation-grounds:
And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his prece-
dent 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