2758
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Whangarei Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £4,000 authorized to be raised for the Purpose of providing Relief-works for Unemployed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of September, 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 Whangarei Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of four thousand pounds for the purpose of providing relief-works for unemployed:

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 Whangarei Borough Council in respect of the said loan of four thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Whangarei Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of four thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Rangitikei County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Rangitikei County Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The period for which the control of the reserve is hereby vested shall be three years from the date hereof, unless the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said Act.

2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserve. Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

SILVERHOPE SCENIC RESERVE.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 3, Block VI, Ongo Survey District: Area, 18 acres 1 rood 27 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of September, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Ruapekapeka Pa Scenic Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act) in the undermentioned persons, namely:—

Ernest Holmes Blundell,
Harry Clough Blundell,
Enoch Doel,
Charles Seorim Goodhue,
John Alexander Lindsay Hall,
Horace Leonard Irving,
Charles Fredrick Chipman Miller,
Albert Henry Morgan, and
The Hon. Vernon Herbert Reed, M.L.C.,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Ruapekapeka Pa Scenic Board (herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and 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 fourth Monday in the months of January, April, July, and October in each year, at four o’clock p.m., at the Bay of Islands Newspaper Company’s Office, Kawakawa, 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 twenty-fifth day of October, 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 provided, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of 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 five members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

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

6. 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 for such meeting.

7. 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.

8. The Board shall prepare and submit 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 in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

RUAPEKAPEKA PA SCENIC RESERVE.—NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Portion of Section 32, Ruapekapeka Parish: Area, 1 acre 0 roods 9 perches.

Also, portion of Huiarau Block: Area, 5 acres 2 roods 19 perches.

Situated in Block I, Hukerenui Survey District. (Auckland plan 1831, blue.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of September, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.