3374
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

Declaring Public Highways in the No. 18 Highway District to be Main Highways.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 29th day of November, 1926.

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section three of the Main Highways Act, 1922, 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 on and after the date of the gazetting of this Order in Council the public highways mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be main highways within the meaning and for the purposes of the Main Highways Act, 1922.

SCHEDULE.

INVERCARGILL–Fortrose (via Gorge Road): All that portion of the road known as the Invercargill–Fortrose (via Gorge Road) Road, commencing at the eastern boundary of the Borough of South Invercargill, and proceeding thence generally in a south-easterly direction via Gorge Road and terminating at its junction with the Kennington–Waikawa Main Highway in Section 11, Block VIII, Toetoes Survey District, passing through the County of Southland; being a distance of 25 miles 14 chains, more or less.

Gore–Winton: All that road known as the Gore–Winton Road, commencing at its junction with the Invercargill–Dunedin Main Highway, near Gore, and proceeding thence generally in a westerly direction via Waimumu and Hedgehope, and terminating at the eastern boundary of the Borough of Winton, passing through the County of Southland; being a distance of 37 miles 26 chains, more or less.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked M.H. 41, deposited in the office of the Main Highways Board at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

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

(P.W. 62/18.)

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Raglan County Council in respect of a Loan of £500, authorized to be raised for completing the Forming and Metalling of Roads from Dunmore to Burnt Bridge, and from Upton’s Hill towards the Whangape Riding Boundary.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 29th 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 Raglan County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of five thousand pounds for forming and metalling roads from Dunmore to Burnt Bridge, and from Upton’s Hill towards the Whangape Riding boundary, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional sum of five hundred pounds under the authority of section nineteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, 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 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 Raglan County Council in respect of the said loan of five hundred pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Raglan County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of five hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Riccarton Borough Council in respect of a Loan of £4,000, authorized to be raised for repaying the Balances of certain maturing Loans.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 29th 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 Riccarton Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of four thousand pounds for repaying the balances of certain maturing loans:

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 five and three-quarters 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 Riccarton Borough Council in respect of the said sum of four thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding five and three-quarters per centum per annum, and the said Riccarton Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of four thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Hunter-ville Town Board in respect of a Loan of £500, authorized to be raised for completing Road Construction and Tar and Bituminous Surfacing.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 29th 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