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rized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of rate-
payers 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 Waitemata County Council has been
authorized to borrow the sum of twenty thousand pounds
for roads and bridges in the Takapuna Riding, and is now
desirous of raising the sum of five thousand pounds, being a
portion of the loan of twenty thousand pounds :

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

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Shannon Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £1,100, authorized to be raised for Water-supply.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 23rd day of
March, 1925.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING 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 autho-
rized before the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter autho-
rized, to borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of rate-
payers 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 Shannon Borough Council has been
authorized to borrow the sum of eleven thousand pounds
for water-supply, and is now desirous of borrowing an
additional sum of one thousand one hundred pounds under
the authority of section eighteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans
Act, 1913, for the purpose of completing the undertaking :

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

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with Otorohanga County Council’s Loan of £7,000.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 30th day
of March, 1925.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Otorohanga County Council proceeded
by way of special order to raise a loan of seven
thousand pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
and the Counties Act, 1920, for the purpose of paying the
sum due to the Waitomo County Council under an award
made under subsection one of section thirteen of the said
Counties Act, 1920 :

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said
loan were irregular, in that public notice of the resolution to
make the special order authorizing the raising of the loan,
although given four times, was not given once in each of the
four weeks immediately preceding the day on which the
meeting was held for the purpose of confirming that resolution,
as required by section ninety-nine of the Counties Act, 1920 :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district
have not been misled by such irregularity as aforesaid, 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 in connection with the said
loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the
said public notice had been correctly given, and that the
validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan
shall not be called in question by reason only of the
irregularity aforesaid.

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

Recreation Reserve in North Auckland Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 23rd day
of March, 1925.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the
reserve for recreation in the North Auckland Land District
described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is
hereby brought under the operation of and declared to
be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act ;
and such reserve shall hereafter be known as the Mata-a-Vai
Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as
a public domain.

SCHEDULE.

MATA-A-VAI DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, contain-
ing by admeasurement 4 acres 3 roods 18·7 perches, more or
less, being Lots 40, 50, 62, and 65 as shown on deposited plan
No. 16246, Auckland Registry.

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

Fairlight Street, in the City of Wellington, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 30th day
of March, 1925.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING 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 Wellington City Council on the
nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-five, viz. :—

“The Wellington City Council, being the local authority
having control of the streets in the City of Wellington,
hereby declares that the provisions of section one hundred
and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not
apply to all that new street called Fairlight Street, beginning
at its junction with the Tramway Reserve, Moorhouse
Street, and terminating at Edward Street, for a distance
of approximately 13 chains, as more particularly delineated
on plan A 2887, and D.P. 6990, Township of Wadestown ” ;