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 Opotiki Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of two thousand two hundred pounds for the construction in ferro-concrete of the landing-stage of the Opotiki Wharf, and the erection of concrete retaining-walls, and the filling-in with spoil portion of the foreshore:

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

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

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 Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, a regulation was made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), fixing charges for the transmission of radio-telegrams : And whereas it is desirable to add to such regulation in the manner hereinafter set forth:

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 said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that the regulation hereby made shall form part of and be read together with the regulation above recited, and shall have effect from the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.
CHARGES.
3A. THE charge for the transmission of an ordinary radio-telegram to or from the mainland of New Zealand from or to Kawau Island shall be 2½d. per word, with a minimum charge of 1s. 3d.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Radiotelegraphic Regulations.

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.

Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby amend and supplement the regulations referred to in the Schedule hereto as shown therein.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND PAYMENT OF THE NEW ZEALAND DIVISION OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

1. CANCEL paragraph 2 of regulation No. 13, and substitute—
   "Interest will be credited half-yearly—i.e., on 31st March and 30th September of each year, on the amount actually standing to the credit of each individual account with the Public Trustee. All interest will be added to principal on 31st March of each year.

2. Add an additional paragraph to regulation No. 9B, as follows:—
   "This allowance is payable only to officers of Captain's and Commander's rank after 29th February, 1924, except that officers in receipt of the allowance on that date may continue to be paid until relieved in their present appointments."

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

The Northern Side of Portion of Vivian Street, in the Borough of New Plymouth, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

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 powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the New Plymouth Borough Council on the second day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, viz:—
"That the New Plymouth Borough Council, being the local authority having control of the street hereinafter mentioned, hereby resolves and declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen, subsection one, of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to that portion of the northern side of Vivian Street to which Sections 317 and 318, New Plymouth, have frontage";
subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the northern side of the portion of Vivian Street (described in the Schedule hereto) within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

SCHEDULE.
THE northern side of all that portion of street, situated in the Taranaki Land District, Borough of New Plymouth, known as Vivian Street, fronting Sections 317 and 318, Town of New Plymouth. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 59890, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

License authorizing the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company (Limited) to erect Electric Lines across a Public Road in the Hauraki Plains County.

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 powers conferred by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,

Regulations under the Naval Defence Act amended.

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 powers and authorities conferred on me by section twenty-five of the Naval Defence Act, 1913, and section five of the Naval Defence Amendment Act, 1922, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount