Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of
February, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., 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,
doeth 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.
CASTLEPOINT County Council (for workers' dwellings) £ 2,000
Kaitieke County Council (for widening, culverting, and
metalling roads) ... ... 1,250
Kaitaia Town Board (for the formation and metalling
of a portion of Empire Street) 400
Foxton Borough Council (for reconstructing and tar-
sealing certain roads and streets) 5,000
Ohakune Borough Council (for paying off the unpaid
portion of a loan of £575 raised for electric-light-
extension purposes) 425
Kaikoura County Council (for electrical works) 1,258
Tauranga County Council (for metalling a portion of
the Tauranga-Matamata Highway) 2,800
Tauranga County Council (for reconstructing a portion
of the Katikati-Waihi Road and purchasing
machinery) 3,500
Tauranga Borough Council (for completing the recon-
struction of certain streets) 200
Waiapu County Council (for metalling Takapau-
Thungia Road) 2,000
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to stopping Portion of Road in Block I, Paterson
District, Stewart Island County.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day
of February, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., 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 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 con-
sent to the Stewart Island County Council stopping the
portion of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be
stopped: 10·5 perches.
Being portion of road adjoining Section 27, situated in
Block I, Paterson District. (S.O. R. 537.)
In the Southland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 63796,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured green.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 47/919.)

Consenting to Body Corporate borrowing Money, and authori-
zing Payment to Committee of Management.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of
February, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section three hundred and thirty-five of
the Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that, with
the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, a
body corporate constituted under Part XVII of the said Act
may, on the security of a mortgage or charge of the land
vested in it, borrow money for any of the purposes therein
mentioned:
And whereas the " Proprietors of the Poroporo No. 1B
block," a body corporate constituted as aforesaid, has
applied for the precedent consent of the Governor-General
in Council accordingly, and also that consent be given to any
money so borrowed being paid to the committee of manage-
ment of such body corporate:
And whereas the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board
has recommended that such consent be granted, and it seems
expedient so to do:
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, pursuant to section three hundred and thirty-five of
the Native Land Act, 1909, and all other powers him enabling,
grant precedent consent to the said body corporate, on
the security of a mortgage or charge of the lands vested in
it, borrowing from a State Loan Department or from any
person or body corporate, whether by cash credit in current
account with a bank or otherwise, the sum of three thousand
five hundred pounds (£3,500) for the purpose of enabling the
said body corporate to liquidate existing liabilities in respect
of, and to further improve and more efficiently farm, the said
lands of the said body corporate; and doth authorize the
payment of any money so borrowed to the committee of
management of the said body corporate.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Conferring Special Jurisdiction on the Native Land Court.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day
of February, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section twenty-five of the Native Land
Act, 1909, it is enacted that, in addition to the juris-
diction elsewhere conferred upon the Native Land Court, the
Governor-General may by Order in Council confer upon the
Court jurisdiction in any matter or question affecting the
rights of Natives in any real or personal property:
And whereas it is expedient to confer upon the Court the
said jurisdiction as hereinafter appears:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and all other
powers thereunto him enabling, and acting by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby confer upon the Native Land Court
jurisdiction to hear and determine as between Natives any
claim, whether at law or in equity, to the ownership of
certain improvements on and of stock formerly running on
or depasturing upon Tahora 2f 2 Block, and which said
improvements and stock were transferred to the control and
management of the East Coast Native Trust Board on the
commencement of the farming operations of the said Board
on the said block, with power and jurisdiction to make such
order or orders as the circumstances of the case may require,
and to enforce compliance therewith as fully and effectually
as if the order was one within the ordinary jurisdiction of the
Court.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.