Dec. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3305

Extending Time for holding Election of Trustees for Wainono Drainage District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of November, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section ten of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, it is provided that on the first Monday in the month of November in the year following the year in which the first trustees for any drainage district are elected, and on the same day in each succeeding third year thereafter, an election of trustees for each district shall be held:

And whereas an election of trustees for the Wainono Drainage District should have been held on the third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four:

And whereas it is expedient to extend the time for holding such election of trustees for the Wainono Drainage District:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section twenty-two of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1922, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby extend the time for holding the aforesaid election of trustees for the Wainono Drainage District; and doth hereby order and declare that in the aforesaid drainage district the said election shall be held and take place on Monday, the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consent to exercise by Chief Judge of Power of Amendment.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection eight of section seven of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1922, it is enacted that in all cases where an order is dated more than five years previously to the receipt of the application the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court shall first obtain the consent of the Governor-General in Council before making any order thereunder:

And whereas applications have been made under the said section seven in respect of the various orders of the Native Land Court particulars of which are set out in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, 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 consent to the Chief Judge exercising with regard to the succession orders set out in the said Schedule or any of them all and every the jurisdiction granted to him by the said section seven and to the making of any such order thereunder as may seem necessary or expedient.

SCHEDULE.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

B

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of November, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL 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 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 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.

Clifton County Council (for metalling the Onaero-Mataro Road) .. .. .. .. .. £ 400
Featherston County Council (for improvement of the main highways) .. .. .. .. 12,000
Levin Borough Council (for completion of the municipal buildings) .. .. .. .. 3,000
Mount Eden Borough Council (for completion of street-construction) .. .. .. .. 5,000
Mount Eden Borough Council (for completing the construction of the Mount Eden and Dominion Roads) .. .. .. .. 12,500
Mount Eden Borough Council (for completing the erection of a fire brigade station) .. .. 800
Opotiki Borough Council (for the renewal of a traffic-bridge across the Waioeka River) .. .. 7,000
Taumarunui Borough Council (for completion of the municipal abattoirs) .. .. .. .. 550
Timaru Borough Council (for the purchase of roading-machinery) .. .. .. .. .. 4,500
Waipa County Council (for the formation and metalling of the St. Leger Road) .. .. .. 400
Whangaroa County Council (for completing the culverting, constructing, and reforming of the Omaunu Road) .. .. .. .. 265

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Whangaroa Hospital Board in respect of a Loan of £1,300, authorized to be raised for the Repayment of a Matured Loan.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of November, 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, 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 Whangaroa Hospital Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of one thousand three hundred pounds for the repayment of a matured loan:

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