Nov. 11.]

Also the southern side of all that portion of street situated
in the said land district and city, known as Macbeth Street,
abutting on part Section 17, Block VI, Town District.
As the said portions of streets are more particularly
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 63216, deposited in
the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in
the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured brown.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 51/783.)

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Orton
Drainage Board in respect of a Loan of £3,000 authorized
to be raised for Drainage-works in the Orton District.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of
November, 1926.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section one hundred and fourteen of the
Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, 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 or public body
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 Orton Drainage Board has been authorized
to borrow the sum of three thousand pounds for
drainage-works in the Orton District:
And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent
consent as required by the above-recited section one
hundred and fourteen, 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 Orton Drainage
Board in respect of the said sum of three thousand pounds
shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum,
and the said Orton Drainage Board is hereby authorized to
borrow the said sum of three thousand pounds accordingly.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Orton
Drainage Board in respect of a Loan of £3,000 authorized
to be raised for Drainage-works in the Punga District.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day
of November, 1926.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section one hundred and fourteen of the
Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, 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 or public body
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 Orton Drainage Board has been authorized
to borrow the sum of three thousand pounds for
drainage-works in the Punga District:

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And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent
consent as required by the above-recited section one
hundred and fourteen, 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 Orton Drainage
Board in respect of the said sum of three thousand pounds
shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum,
and the said Orton Drainage Board is hereby authorized to
borrow the said sum of three thousand pounds accordingly.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Opening Town Lands in Westland Land District for Selection
on Renewable Lease.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General
Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the town lands
described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection
on renewable lease on Monday, the seventeenth day of
January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, at
the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also
declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject
to the provisions of the said Act.
SCHEDULE.
WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.
Grey County.—Town of Kotuku.
Section. Area. Capital Value. Half-yearly Rent.
1 0 1 15 30 0 15 0
2 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
3* 0 1 10 45 1 2 6
4 0 1 4·7 50 1 5 0
5 0 1 16·1 25 0 12 6
6 0 1 12·9 25 0 12 6
7 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
8 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
11 0 1 13·2 25 0 12 6
12 0 1 10 25 0 12 6
13 0 1 10 25 0 12 6
14 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
15 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
16 0 1 9·7 30 0 15 0
17† 0 1 14·2 60 1 10 0
18 0 1 5·5 60 1 10 0
19 0 1 9·2 30 0 15 0
20 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
21 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
22 0 1 10 25 0 12 6
23 0 1 10 30 0 15 0
24 0 1 9·7 30 0 15 0

• Weighted with £560, valuation for improvements, consisting
  of a five-roomed dwelling, shed, and clearing.
  † Weighted with £775, valuation for improvements, consisting
  of six-roomed dwelling (scullery and bathroom), outhouse,
  and fencing and clearing.
  The Town of Kotuku is situated on the Kotuku-Bell Hill Road,
  about one mile from the Kotuku Railway-station on the Greymouth-Otira
  Line and about twenty-four miles from Greymouth by metalled road.
  The sections offered are practically level and mostly covered
  with a light growth of Native bush, and will be found suitable
  for residential sites. A school is situated within a few chains
  of the town and a post-office and general store about half a mile
  distant.
  Special Condition.—Sections 8 and 16 will be sold subject
  to existing access to adjacent sawmill, and will remain subject
  thereto until the tram-line is no longer required.
  As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
  this 6th day of November, 1926.
  D. H. GUTHRIE, for Minister of Lands.