otherwise except with the approval of the Commissioner of
State Forests.

7. In April of each year the said Council shall furnish to the
   Commissioner of State Forests a report for the year ending on
   the preceding thirty-first day of March, presenting in complete
   detail full particulars of the technical operations, and of
   the administration of the land hereby vested in the said
   Corporations and of the financial operations relating thereto,
   and shall at the same time submit a plan of operations and
   management for the ensuing year, which shall be effective
   on approval by the Commissioner of State Forests.

SCHEDULE.

SECTIONS 1, 2, 3, Block VI, Upper Rangitaiki Survey District,
in the Auckland Land District, containing an aggregate
area of 720 acres, 3 roods, 19 perches.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £2,000
proposed to be raised by the Taumarunui County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of
July, 1925.
Present:

WHEREAS the Taumarunui County Council, acting
under and in pursuance of paragraph (e) of section
sixteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, proposes
to raise a loan of two thousand pounds for the purpose of
forming Maungakahu and Kakiamutu Roads :

And whereas the ratepayers' consent given under paragraph (e) of section sixteen aforesaid is irregular in that a subscribing ratepayer has attested the signatures of other subscribers thereto :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularity, 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 to raise the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the ratepayers' consent had been properly witnessed, 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.

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £1,000, proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Southland.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of July, 1925.
Present:

WHEREAS the Southland County Council, acting under and in pursuance of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan of one thousand pounds for the purpose of constructing, forming, and gravelling the Tokanui-Haldane Road :

And whereas the special order authorizing the raising of the loan is irregular in so far that the public notification of the time and place fixed for the confirmation of the said special order, although given four times, did not comply with the provisions of section ninety-nine of the Counties Act, 1920 :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularity, 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 to raise the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though public notification of the special order had been correctly given, 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.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Inglewood County Council in respect of a Loan of £120, authorized to be raised for the Purpose of completing the Erection of County Offices.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of July, 1925.
Present:

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 Inglewood County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of twelve hundred pounds for the purpose of erecting county offices, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional sum of one hundred and twenty 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 Inglewood County Council in respect of the said loan of one hundred and twenty pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Inglewood County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one hundred and twenty pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Thames Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £12,000, authorized to be raised for providing the Council's Contribution to the Cost of constructing a Bridge over the Waihou River at Kopu.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of July, 1925.
Present:

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 :