Nov. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3301

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District containing by admeasurement 33 acres, more or less, being Section 3, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and being the land secondly described in subsection (5) of section 43 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1925.

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

Vesting Crown Land in the Whangarei Borough Council for Tree-planting Purposes.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of November, 1926.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. NOSWORTHY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1926, it is provided that if in the opinion of the Governor-General it is expedient that any land vested in His Majesty and not reserved for any special purpose should be vested in any local authority in trust for the purpose of planting trees thereon, he may, by Order in Council, vest such land in that local authority for such purpose, with or without payment therefor, and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed or imposed in such order:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the land described in the Schedule hereto in the Corporation of the Borough of Whangarei for tree-planting purposes without payment therefor:

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 the said section twenty, doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Whangarei for tree-planting purposes, subject to the same conditions as are contained in the Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, vesting Sections 84, 89, 90, 91, and W. 93, Parish of Parahaki, in the said corporation, as published in Gazette No. 26, of the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, page 1110.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION S.W. 87, Parahaki Parish: Area, 39 acres 3 roods.

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

Trustees of Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Blind Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Fund incorporated under the War Funds Act, 1915.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of November, 1926.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the War Funds Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, incorporate a society possessing a war fund, or the trustees of such fund:

And whereas application, in writing, addressed to the Minister has been made by the Trustees of the Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Blind Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Fund (being the trustees of a war fund), praying for the incorporation of those trustees:

And whereas it is considered desirable to grant such application:

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 by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the trustees of the Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Blind Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Fund are hereby incorpo-
rated for the purposes of the said Act as from the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, and shall be known as the “Trustees of the Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Blind Soldiers and Sailors’ Fund.”

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Taradale Town Board in respect of a Loan of £5,000, being a Portion of a Loan of £10,000 authorized to be raised for erecting Workers’ Dwellings.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of November, 1926.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. NOSWORTHY 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 Taradale Town Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of ten thousand pounds for erecting workers’ dwellings, and is now desirous of raising the sum of five thousand pounds, being a portion of the loan of ten thousand pounds:

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 Taradale Town Board in respect of the said sum of five thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Taradale Town Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Pigeon Bay Road Board in respect of a Loan of £2,500 authorized to be raised for Road-construction.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of November, 1926.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. NOSWORTHY 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 Pigeon Bay Road Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds for road-construction: