May 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1273

Authorizing the Waitomo Electric-power Board to construct Electric Works.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,

CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section forty-nine of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, 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 authorize the Waitomo Electric-power Board to erect electric lines as shown on the plans marked P.W.D. 64698, 64699, and 64700, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and such further lines as may from time to time be required in the Waitomo Electric-power District and outer area of such district as hereinafter defined; transformers and substations for the transmission and distribution of electrical energy in the Waitomo Electric-power District and outer area of such district, as defined by Proclamation dated the third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 14, of the sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. No electric lines shall be used for the distribution of electrical energy until the Waitomo Electric-power Board has obtained a license for such purpose in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911.

2. Any conditions inserted in such license shall be strictly complied with by such Board.

3. Such Board shall forward for the approval of the Minister of Public Works such further plans and particulars as the Minister of Public Works may from time to time require.

4. The Board shall not, without the consent in writing of the Minister of Public Works, erect any electric lines along the routes of the Government main-trunk transmission-lines.

5. The works hereby authorized shall be constructed so as to comply with the regulations made under section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, dated the 9th day of October, 1922, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th day of the same month, or any regulations made in amendment thereof or in substitution thereof, which regulations shall be deemed to be incorporated herein.

6. The Board shall substantially complete the works hereby authorized within a period of three years from the date of this license, or within such further time as the Minister may allow in the event of the work being delayed by strikes, lock-outs, breakdowns, or other unavoidable causes not due to any neglect by the Board.

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

(P.W. 26/980.)

Apportionment of Representation on the Wellington Hospital Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,

CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection two of section eleven of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, whenever in his opinion it becomes necessary so to do, amend any provisions made by him with respect to the representation of the contributory districts in a hospital district:

And whereas it is necessary that provision should be made for the representation of the Borough of Upper Hutt upon the Wellington 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 authority conferred upon him by the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, doth hereby determine that the Borough of Upper Hutt and the Hutt County shall be a combined district for the purposes of the said Act, and that the number of representatives of the said combined district on the Wellington Hospital Board shall be one, and the Hutt County Council is hereby declared to be the principal contributory local authority of the said combined district; and it is hereby further declared that the first election of a representative for the said combined district shall take place on the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and the present representative of the Hutt County shall continue in office until that date; and it is hereby further declared that the regulations made by Order in Council of date the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, published in the Gazette on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at page 773, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the said combined district and to the representation thereof on the Wellington Hospital Board.

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,

CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 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.

Manawatu Drainage Board (for drainage-works) .. £ 5,000
Hamilton Borough Council (for the construction of waterworks and sewers) .. .. .. 18,400
Woodville County Council (for contribution to the Manawatu Gorge Board of Control) .. .. 870
Foxton Borough Council (for the completion of water-supply and drainage-works) .. .. 850
Inglewood County Council (for completing the metalling of Otaraoa Road) .. .. .. 75

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

Consent to exercise by Chief Judge of Power of Amendment.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,

CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of May, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., 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