SEPT. 11. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2137

Pastoral Association, of the endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

(1.) ALL that piece of land containing 23 acres 0 roods 3 perches, more or less, being Lot 5 of Section 113, delineated on the public map of the District of Takaka, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 41, folio 170 (Nelson Registry).

(2.) All that piece of land containing 50 acres 0 roods 38 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 4 of Section 113, delineated on the public map of the District of Takaka, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 41, folio 169 (Nelson Registry).

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of a Post-office in Block III, Rangitoto Survey District, Borough of Marton.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of September, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities 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 consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purpose of a post-office.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land being taken :—

A. B. P. Portion of
0 1 0·8 Section 17, Rangitikei Agricultural Reserve; edged blue.
0 1 26·7 Section 17, Rangitikei Agricultural Reserve; edged red.

Situated in the Borough of Marton, Block III, Rangitoto Survey District. (S.O. 1888.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 60388, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by the Cambridge Borough Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of September, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Cambridge Borough Council to borrow the sums set out in the Schedule hereto, 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 Cambridge Borough Council, 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.

LOAN of £37,900 for the purpose of installing a gravitation water-supply and extending the present reticulation.

Loan of £13,535 for the purpose of laying down roads in permanent material.

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

Exchanging a Reserve in Block X, Wharekawa Survey District, Auckland Land District, for other Land.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of September, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in Part I of the Schedule hereto is a reserve heretofore duly set apart for a public-pound site, being a reserve within Class I of the Second Schedule to the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”) : And whereas by section four of the said Act the Governor-General is authorized, inter alia, to exchange any such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to the same or one or more of the purposes comprised in the said Class I, and to define the purpose to which such reserve or such land acquired in exchange shall be dedicated : And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the said public-pound site for other land of equal value, described in Part II of the Schedule hereto, to be dedicated as herein-after provided :

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section four of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the reserve for a public-pound site described in Part I of the Schedule hereto is hereby exchanged for the land described in Part II of the Schedule hereto, which, in the opinion of the Governor-General, is of equal value ; and doth also declare that the land described in the said Part I becomes and is Crown land freed from all previous reservation and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and that the land described in the said Part II is hereby reserved as a site for a public pound, being one of the purposes comprised in the said Class I.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Description of Reserve exchanged.

SECTION 20, Block X, Wharekawa Survey District, Auckland Land District : Area, 3 roods 39 perches.

PART II.

Description of Land obtained in Exchange therefor.

Section 15, Block II, Waitakaruru Township : Area, 3 roods 39·1 perches.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Franklin County Council in respect of a Loan of £1,000, authorized to be raised for the Purpose of metalling Goodwin Road.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of September, 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, 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 Franklin County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of one thousand pounds for the purpose of metalling Goodwin Road :

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 five and three-quarters per centum per annum :