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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 16

and twenty-seven, form one united district under and for the
purposes of the Land Drainage Act, the boundaries whereof
shall be those described in the Schedule hereto ; and doth also
order and declare that the name of the said united district
shall be the Hauraki United Drainage District, and that the
number of trustees of the said district shall be seven.

SCHEDULE.

HAURAKI UNITED DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a
line commencing at a point on the Firth of Thames in line
with the south-western boundary of the Orongo Settlement ;
then to and along that boundary to the south-western
corner of Section 34s, Orongo Settlement ; then north-
easterly along the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 34s
and 35s, Orongo Settlement, to the left bank of the Waihou
River ; then up the left bank of the Waihou River to a
point in line with the southern boundary of Lot 2 on plan
8682, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar,
at Auckland ; then to and along that boundary and along
the southern boundaries of Lots 5 and 6 on plan 8682 afore-
said to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned lot ;
then southerly along the eastern boundary of Lot 8 on plan
8891, deposited as aforesaid, to the south-eastern corner of
the said Lot 8 ; then westerly along the southern boundaries
of Lots 8 and 9 on the said plan 8891 to the south-western
corner of the last-mentioned lot ; then northerly along the
western boundary of Lot 9 aforesaid to the north-eastern
corner of Kaikahu No. 1b 1 Block ; then westerly along
the northern boundary of Kaikahu No. 1b 1 to the south-
eastern corner of Kaikahu No. 3 ; then north-westerly
along the eastern boundary of Kaikahu No. 3 to its north-
eastern corner ; then south-westerly along the northern
boundary of Kaikahu No. 3 Block to its intersection with
the south-eastern boundary of Makumaku No. 5c 2 Block ;
then north-easterly along that boundary to the south-
western corner of Section 6, Block VII, Waihou Survey Dis-
trict ; then northerly generally along the western bound-
aries of the said Section 6 to its intersection with the northern
boundary of Makumaku No. 5r Block ; then south-westerly
along the north-western boundaries of Subdivisions 5r, 5e,
and 3b, Makumaku Block, to the Awaiiti Canal ; then
north-westerly along the eastern bank of the Awaiiti Canal
to the Piako River ; then northerly generally along the
right bank of the Piako River to the Firth of Thames and
north-easterly along the shore of the Firth of Thames to the
point of commencement.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £800,
proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of
Masterton.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 11th day of
March, 1927.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Masterton County Council, acting under
and in pursuance of paragraph (e) of section seven-
teen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, proposes to raise
a loan of eight hundred pounds for the purpose of forming,
grading, and metalling the Wairere Road :

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said
loan are irregular in that the public notification of the meeting
to confirm the special order authorizing the raising of the
loan did not comply with the provisions of paragraph (e) of
section ninety-nine of the Counties Act, 1920 :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been
misled by the said irregularity, and it is expedient to validate
the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one
hundred and twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1926, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order
and declare that the proceedings taken to raise the said loan
shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though public
notification of the special order had been correctly given,
and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with
the said loan shall not be called into question be reason only
of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Bruce
County Council in respect of a Loan of £2,000 being a further
Portion of a Loan of £8,000, authorized to be raised for the
formation and metalling of Roads in the Balmoral Number Two
Riding.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 11th day of
March, 1927.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Bruce County Council has been authorized
to borrow the sum of eight thousand pounds for the formation
and metalling of roads in the Balmoral Number Two Riding,
and is now desirous of raising the sum of two thousand pounds,
being a further portion of the loan of eight 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 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 Bruce County Council in
respect of the said sum of two thousand pounds shall be a
rate not exceeding five and three-quarters per centum per
annum, and the said Bruce County Council is hereby authorized
to borrow the said sum of two thousand pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Auck-
land City Council in respect of a Loan of £70,000, authorized
to be raised for the Provision of Filtration Plants at Nikotupu
and Waitakere.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 11th day of
March, 1927.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 there-
after 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 Auckland City Council has been authorized
to borrow the sum of seventy thousand pounds for the pro-
vision of filtration plants at Nikotupu and Waitakere :

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