Oct. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2905

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.

Dannevirkc Borough Council (for repaying a maturing waterworks loan) .. .. .. £4,000
Ellerslie Town Board (for completing the erection and furnishing of the municipal buildings) .. 375
Feilding Borough Council (for completing the extension and improvement of the waterworks) .. 1,850
Hamilton Borough Council (for completing the formation and improvement of streets) .. .. 7,000
Hauraki Plains County Council (for completing the construction of roads in the Turua-Netherton Special-rating Area) .. .. .. 1,100
Heathcote County Council (for providing relief-works for unemployed) .. .. .. 1,000
Lower Hutt Borough Council (for water-supply, sewerage, and drainage) .. .. .. 6,000
Mount Eden Borough Council (for the permanent construction of roads and footpaths and for various public works) .. .. .. 110,000
Inglewood County Council (for erecting two bridges on the Rugby Road) .. .. .. 350
Inglewood County Council (for erecting a bridge on the Upland Road) .. .. .. 150
Opunake Town Board (for making and tar-sealing the main highway through the town, remaking and tar-sealing certain streets, and purchasing a tar sprayer and boiler) .. .. .. 3,350
Rangiora County Council (for erecting a worker’s dwelling) .. .. .. 1,000
Wairoa County Council (for forming and bridging a portion of the Makaretu-Mangaone Road) .. 2,500
Wairoa County Council (for metalling a portion of the Kiwi Branch Road) .. .. .. 350
Waitomo County Council (for re-forming, widening, and metalling a portion of the Mangaokewa Road) 2,400

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portions of Road in Blocks X and XI, Tokatoka Survey District, to be Government Roads.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of October, 1926.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 order and declare that the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become Government roads.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road declared to be Government roads :—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
0 1 11 Allotment 4, Tokatoka Parish, Block X.
1 0 14 ,, 4, ,, X.
0 3 28 Allotment 5, Tokatoka Parish, and portion Section 7, Block XI.
2 3 38 Allotment 5, Tokatoka Parish, and portion Section 7, Block XI.

Situated in Tokatoka Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 23187.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62071, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 62/1/9/1.)

Adding an Office to the Administrative Division of the Public Service.

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 subsection two of section eighteen of the Public Service Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Commissioner may, whenever it appears advantageous to the Public Service so to do, certify to the Governor-General that it is expedient to add any office to or to abolish any office from the Administrative Division of the Public Service of New Zealand; and the Governor-General in Council may, upon such certificate, add any office to the Administrative Division or abolish any office therein:

And whereas the Public Service Commissioner has certified to the Governor-General that it is expedient to add the office of Permanent Head, Prime Minister’s Department, to the said Administrative Division:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby add the office of Permanent Head, Prime Minister’s Department, to the said Administrative Division.

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

Amending Regulations under Section 16 of the Engineers Registration Act, 1924.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of October, 1926.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Engineers Registration Act, 1924, 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 amend the regulations made under the said Act by Order in Council dated the tenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in Gazette No. 79, of the twelfth day of the same month, by revoking clause four of Regulation six, and substituting in lieu thereof the following clause :—

“ (4.) The assessors hearing any appeal may be paid such fee and allowances as may be considered reasonable by the Board of Appeal, but so that in no case shall the amount payable to any assessor exceed a fee of £2 2s. per diem, together with such reasonable travelling-expenses as are actually incurred by the assessor in attending a sitting of the Board of Appeal.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 30/922.)

Authorizing the Purchase by the Otago Electric-power Board of certain Electric Works the Property of the Kaitangata Borough Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of October, 1926.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section seventy-six of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that 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 purchase by the Otago Electric-power Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) duly