May 6.]

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 April, 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 oans.
SCHEDULE
Bay of Islands Harbour Board (for construction of wharf at Russell) ... ... ... ... ... £2,500
Devonport Borough Council (for the installation of fire-alarms) ... ... ... ... ... £2,000
Devonport Borough Council (for the completion of the fire-brigade station) ... ... ... ... ... £500

Hokianga County Council (for completing the construction of roads and bridges) ... ... ... ... ... £700
Hutt Valley Electric-power Board (for completion of electric works) ... ... ... ... ... £20,000
Hutt Valley Electric-power Board (for completion of electric works) ... ... ... ... ... £4,000
Helensville Town Board (for completion of waterworks) ... ... ... ... ... £2,500
Huntly Town Board (for the erection of municipal buildings) ... ... ... ... ... £12,000
Dargaville Borough Council (for the acquisition of land for an additional catch-water area) ... ... ... ... ... £12,000
Dargaville Borough Council (for the laying of water-mains) ... ... ... ... ... £1,250
Ellerslie Town Board (for improvement of portion of the Great South Road) ... ... ... ... ... £7,000
Ellerslie Town Board (for waterworks) ... ... ... ... ... £5,000
Ellerslie Town Board (for the erection and furnishing of municipal buildings) ... ... ... ... ... £3,750
Invercargill Borough Council (for the purpose of paying off the Tramways and Electricity Loan) ... ... ... ... ... £20,900
Masterton County Council (for widening the Ngahape Road) ... ... ... ... ... £250
Tauranga Electric-power Board (for the completion of electric works) ... ... ... ... ... £10,000
Tamahere Road Board (for the bituminous sealing of various roads) ... ... ... ... ... £3,300
Timaru Borough Council (for completion of certain drainage and sewerage works) ... ... ... ... ... £700
Woodville Borough Council (for providing the Council's proportion of the further cost of reconstructing the Manawatu Gorge Road) ... ... ... ... ... £695
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in Cook Islands taken for the Purpose of Public Recreation.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT,
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of April, 1926.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, it is provided that the Governor-General may by Order in Council take any land in the Cook Islands for any public purpose specified in the Order:
And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a certain public purpose within the meaning of section three hundred and sixty-four of the said Act—to wit, for the purpose of public recreation:
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, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purpose aforesaid.
SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land situate in the District of Avarua in the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, containing eight perches (8 perches), be the same a little more or less, being part of the land named by the Native Land Court “House-site Section One hundred and seventy-one (171) Ngatipa, Avarua.” As the said parcel of land is delineated and edged red in the plan numbered 17, signed by the Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands at Rarotonga.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.