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

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Rodney County Council
may borrow the Sum of £7,640, authorized to be raised for
Reconstruction of Bridges, and also the Rate of Interest
payable thereon.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of
October, 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 there-
after 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 Rodney County Council has been authorized
to borrow the sum of seven thousand six hundred and forty pounds for the reconstruction of bridges:
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 term for which the money may be
borrowed be twenty years, and the rate of interest payable
thereon 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
term for which the Rodney County Council may borrow the
said sum of seven thousand six hundred and forty pounds
shall be twenty years and the rate of interest that may be
paid thereon shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum
per annum, and the said Rodney County Council is hereby
authorized to borrow the said sum of seven thousand six
hundred and forty pounds accordingly.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £6,000,
proposed to be raised by the Hokianga County Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of
October, 1924.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Hokianga County Council, acting under
and in pursuance of the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1913, proposes to raise a loan of six thousand pounds for the
purpose of forming, re-forming, and metalling roads in the
Taheke Riding:
And whereas section ten of the said Act provides that the
poll of the ratepayers shall be taken not less than one nor
more than three weeks after the day of the last publication
of the notice of intention to raise the loan:
And whereas the poll of ratepayers was taken less than
one week after the last publication of the said notice:
And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been
misled by the said irregularity or defect, and it is expedient
to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one
hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and
declare that the proceedings taken shall be valid to all intents
and purposes as if the provisions of section ten of the Local
Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, had been correctly complied with,
and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with
the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only
of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum
Industry Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington. this 29th day of
October, 1924.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:
And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the Manaia Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:
Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the Manaia Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall from the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
SECTIONS 35, 36, and 41, Parish of Manaia : Area, 191 acres 3 roods 27 perches.

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

Trustees for the Matiere Public Cemetery appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemetery specified in Part II of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
Part 1.—Names of Trustees.
Louis Alfred Margan,
Ernest Henry Price,
William Wilson Kelly,
Timothy Veazey Carter,
Percival John Halligan,
Alfred Baron, and
Nicholas John Dougherty.
Part II—Name of Cemetery and Description of Land
MATIERE PUBLIC CEMETERY.—TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 12, Block XVI, Aria Survey District: Area, 5 acres.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of October, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.