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the intersection of the Palmerston North – Napier Road and the western bank of the Manawatu River, and preceding in a northerly direction along the western bank of the Manawatu and Pohangina Rivers at a point directly opposite the eastern end of Wyndham Street; thence in a straight line to the eastern end of Wyndham Street; thence in a westerly direction by Wyndham Street to its intersection with the Feilding Road; thence in a north-westerly direction by the Feilding Road to its intersection with Grove Road; thence in a southerly direction by Grove Road to its intersection with Winchester Street; thence in a south-easterly direction by Winchester Street to its intersection with Mulgrave Street; thence in a south-westerly direction by Mulgrave Street to its intersection with the Palmerston North – Napier Road; thence by the Palmerston North – Napier Road to the point of commencement. All that area comprising the Township of Halcombe, in the Wellington Land District, bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of Stanway Road and Pearce Street; thence in a westerly direction by Pearce Street to its intersection with the railway-line; thence in a southerly direction by Sherwill Street from its intersection with the railway-line to a point being the north-western boundary of Section 703, Township of Halcombe; thence in a southerly direction by a line being the western boundary of Sections 703, 702, 710, 711, 722. and 723, Township of Halcombe, to its intersection with Knorp Street at the south-western corner of Section 723; thence by Knorp Street in an easterly direction to its intersection with Carruthers Street; thence in an easterly direction by Carruthers Street to its junction with Vogel Street; thence in a northerly direction by Vogel Street to the point of commencement.

All that area comprising the Township of Bunnythorpe in the Wellington Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the Feilding–Bunnythorpe Road, being the south-eastern corner of Section 32, Block III, Kairanga Survey District; thence in a north-easterly direction by a line being the south-eastern boundary of Sections 32, 33, 34, and 35, Block III, Kairanga Survey District, to its intersection with Redmayne Street; thence in a south-easterly direction by Redmayne Street to its intersection with the western boundary of Section 4, Block III, Kairanga Survey District; thence by the western boundary of the said Section 4 in a southerly direction to its intersection with the Bunnythorpe–Ashhurst Road; thence in a westerly direction by the Bunnythorpe–Ashhurst Road to its intersection with the Bunnythorpe – Feilding Road; thence by the Bunnythorpe – Feilding Road in a north-westerly direction to the point of commencement.

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

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of a Road in Block I, Awakino Survey District.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1924.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR PRESIDING 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 Administrator of the Government 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 purposes of a road.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land permitted to be taken : 2 acres 0 roods 20 perches.

Being portion of Section 10, Native Reserve, Block I, Awakino Survey District. (S.O. 22920.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57889, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured purple.

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1924.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR 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 Administrator of the Government 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.

Devonport Borough Council (for the liquidation of maturing waterworks and drainage loan) . . £ 1,000
Franklin County Council (for metalling Clark’s Road) 800
Featherston Borough Council (for rebuilding bridges over Donald’s Creek and Abbott’s Creek) . . 1,200
Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board (for electric works in the Greenmeadows Special-rating Area) . . 4,000
Kairanga County Council (for forming, culverting, and metalling Lower Aorangi Road) . . 800
Mount Wellington Road Board (for construction of roads and purchase of machinery and plant) . . 30,000
Northcote Borough Council (for recreation reserve) 2,100
Otahuhu Borough Council (for waterworks-improvements) . . . . . . 12,000
Otorohanga County Council (for paying amount due to the Waitomo County Council) . . . . 7,000
Piako County Council (for metalling part of the Main Road at Motumaoho) . . . . 900
Piako County Council (for metalling Hangawera Road) . . . . . . 5,000
Wanganui Borough Council (for drainage, water-supply extensions, and streets-construction in Gonville) . . . . . . 15,000
Waitomo County Council (for improving and metalling portion of Trooper’s Road) . . . . 1,500
Wellington City Council (for carrying out works and operations authorized by the Wellington City and Suburban Highways Construction and Hutt Road Amendment Act, and for purchasing plant for that purpose) . . . . . . 130,000
Marton Borough Council (for the erection of abattoirs) 6,000
Northcote Borough Council (for repairing slips) . . 2,800
Cook County Council (for roading and bridging and purchase of machinery) . . . . 153,000

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

Consenting to the Raising of £149,999, being a Part of a Loan of £150,000 authorized to be raised by the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric-power Board on the Instalment System extending over a Period of Thirty-six and a Half Years.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1924.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS section thirteen of the Finance Act, 1921, provides that where any local authority, as defined by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, has heretofore been or shall hereafter be authorized to raise a loan, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise, and whether such loan has been raised in part or not, such local authority may, with the consent of the Governor-General in Council, raise any part of such loan upon terms of making the same, together with