1492
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Piako County Council in respect of a Loan of £90 authorized to be raised for the Purpose of completing the Metalling of a Part of the Main Road at Motumaoho.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of May, 1926.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Piako County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of nine hundred pounds for the purpose of metalling a part of the main road at Motumaoho, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional sum of ninety pounds under the authority of section eighteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of completing the undertaking:

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 acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Piako County Council in respect of the said loan of ninety pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Piako County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of ninety pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Manukau County Council in respect of a Loan of £17,700 authorized to be raised for the Purpose of completing the Construction of a Portion of the Great South Road.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of May, 1926.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Manukau County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of seventeen thousand seven hundred pounds for the purpose of completing the construction of a portion of the Great South Road:

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 acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the Manukau County Council in respect of the said loan of seventeen thousand seven hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Manukau County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of seventeen thousand seven hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Bell Hill Public Hall Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of May, 1926.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant dated the sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and published in Gazette of the eleventh day of that month, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter provided:

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 exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section two of the Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act, 1914, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,—

John Thomas Butterworth,
Oscar Gibson Bird,
Earnest James Coleman,
Peter Munroe Eadie, and
Abraham Lincoln Thow,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Bell Hill Public Hall Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”), with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each quarter at half-past seven o’clock p.m. at the Bell Hill Public Hall, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of any such meeting is given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

4. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself without reasonable cause from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at meeting.

8. The Board shall have prepared and submitted at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve and the building erected thereon for the purposes of a public hall, and shall