And whereas it is therefore necessary that provision should
be made for representation of the said county on the Wairau
Hospital Board:

And whereas by section one hundred and thirty-five of the
Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Em-
powering Act, 1924, the area comprised in the Picton Road
District immediately before the merging of that district in
the County of Marlborough was declared not to form part of
the Wairau Hospital District, and was constituted a con-
tributary district of the Picton Hospital District by the name
of the Picton Rural District, and it is necessary that provision
should be made for the representation thereof on the Picton
Hospital Board :

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,
and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by the said Act, doth hereby determine as
follows :—

1. The County of Marlborough (exclusive of the Picton
   Rural District) and the Havelock Town District
   shall be combined contributary district of the
   Wairau Hospital District for the purposes of the
   said Act.

2. The Marlborough County Council is declared to be
   the principal contributory local authority of the
   said combined district for the purposes of the said
   Act and of the said Order in Council made on the
   ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred
   and twenty-three.

3. The number of representatives of the said combined
   district (part Marlborough County and Havelock
   Town District) on the Wairau Hospital Board shall
   be seven.

4. The number of representatives of the Picton Rural
   District on the Picton Hospital Board shall be
   three.

5. The first election of representatives of the aforsaid
   contributory districts shall be held on the date of
   the next ordinary general election of members of
   the Marlborough County Council.

6. The regulations made by the said Order in Council
   of the ninth day of March, one thousand nine
   hundred and twenty-three, shall apply, mutatis
   mutandis, as if incorporated in this Order in Council.

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

Consenting to stopping Portion of Road in Blocks X, XIV,
and XV, Waipara Survey District, Waipara County.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day
of March, 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 anyway 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 Waipara County Council stopping the portion of
road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be
stopped: 50 acres.
Adjoining or passing through Section 35169, Blocks XV
and XIV, and Section 35171, Blocks X and XIV, situated
in Waipara Survey District (Canterbury R.D.). (S.O.
864/147.)
In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 65019,
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. 45/550)

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 March, 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,
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.
CENTRAL Electric-power Board (for electric works) £ 5,000
Dannevirk Borough Council (for a further contribution to the Manawatu Gorge Board of Control) 696
Devonport Borough Council (for completing the improvement to Stanley Bay Reserve) 200
Kairanga County Council (for building and renewing bridges in the Taonui Riding) 2,000
Kairanga County Council (for building and renewing bridges in the Fitzherbert Riding) 2,000
Lower Hutt Borough Council (for the improvement of roads) 26,000
Lower Hutt Borough Council (for redemption purposes) 43,000
Palmerston North Borough Council (for completing the installation of sewerage in the streets of Hokowhitu) 1,200
Pleasant Point Town Board (for sanitation purposes) 250
Raglan County Council (for completing the metalling of the Port Waikato - Tuakau Bridge Road) 400
Tauranga County Council (for the erection of a bridge over the Wharawahara Stream) 300
Te Rapa Drainage Board (for drainage-works) 1,000
Te Aroha Borough Council (for providing proportion of the cost of constructing a bridge) 8,000
Tamaki Road Board (for repayment of the foreshore loan) 2,750
Tamaki Road Board (for completing the bituminous sealing of various roads) 3,300
Onehunga Borough Council (for completing road and footpath formation) 7,500
Wairarapa South County Council (for repairing flood damage) 5,000
Waitomo County Council (for completion of workers' dwellings) 500
Waimairi County Council (for concrete kerbing and channelling) 9,000
Makerua Drainage Board (for completing the erection of river-protection works, the purchase of land, the construction of drains, and the purchase of the necessary machinery and plant) 15,000

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

Appointing Trustee for the Control of Wharf at Tongaporutu.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day
of March, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifteenth day
of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-
five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 75, of the
twenty-second day of the same month, Sydney Southcott and
Thomas Benjamin Waters were appointed as trustees for the
inhabitants of the district for the control and management of