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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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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 Manukau County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds for additional work in connection with the erection of a public hall at Mangere East, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds for 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 Manukau County Council in respect of the said loan of one hundred and twenty-five pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Manukau County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds accordingly.

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

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Cambridge East, Auckland Land District.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for General Government purposes, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and such land is not vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustee :

And whereas it is expedient that such land should be appropriated for a public-school site, being a purpose within Class III of the said Second Schedule :

Now, therefore, I, Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the eleventh section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do by this notification declare that the said land shall, from and after the seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, be appropriated for a public-school site under Class III of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 633 to 650 (inclusive), Town of Cambridge East: Area, 6 acres 2 roods 8 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of January, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Inspectors of Scenic Reserves appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Francis William Foster, Frank Edward Hutchinson, Allan Norman Perham, Cecil McLean Smith, and Robert Blackwood Steele to be Inspectors under the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of January, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Lands temporarily reserved in the North Auckland, Auckland, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago Land Districts.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section three hundred and fifty-nine of the Land Act, 1924, I Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the North Auckland, Auckland, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago Land Districts described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes specified in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of January, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Lands