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(e) The loan proposal published under section nine of the said Act misdescribes the said area;
(f) The said loan proposal fails to state the amount of the proposed sinking fund;
(g) In the notice setting forth the date on which the poll would be taken the said Act was not correctly cited by its short title.

The resolution making and levying the special rate misdescribes the boundaries of the special-rating area, and fails to state the numbers of the sections and blocks comprising the same and the name of the survey district, and purports to make the rate payable to Ernest Walton, County Treasurer, at the County Office, Ngatea, during the whole currency of the loan:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the said special-rating area have not been misled by such irregularities or defects as aforesaid, and it is expedient to validate the said proceedings:

And whereas by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, the said Act is repealed, and it is enacted that all matters and proceedings commenced under the said Act and pending or in progress on the commencement of the reciting Act may be continued and enforced under the reciting Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section one hundred and twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, 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 in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though,—

(a) The area above-described had been duly constituted a special-rating area;
(b) The preparation of the said special roll had been duly authorized;
(c) The special roll prepared in respect of the said area had been complete and in order;
(d) The published notice of the deposit for public inspection of the said special roll had duly defined the said area;
(e) The loan proposal published under section nine of the said Act had correctly described the said area;
(f) The said loan proposal had stated the amount of the annual payments to the proposed sinking fund as one per cent. of the amount of the loan for the time being raised;
(g) The said Act had been correctly cited in the notice setting forth the date on which the poll would be taken;
(h) The resolution making and levying the special rate had correctly described the boundaries of the said area, and had duly stated the numbers of the sections and blocks comprising the same, and the name of the survey district or districts, and had not included the words “to Ernest Walton, County Treasurer, at the County Office, Ngatea”:

And that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan or of the security for the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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

Regulations for Radio-receiving, Amateur Transmitting and Receiving, and Experimental Stations.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of March, 1927.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”) in connection with the licensing of the installation and working of apparatus for radio-telegraphy:

And whereas it is desirable to amend the said regulations in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion doth hereby revoke the regulations under the heading “Penalties” in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth declare that such regulations shall be read as part of the hereinbefore-mentioned regulations, and shall have effect as from the date of publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

PENALTIES.

80. Every licensee or operator who acts in contravention of, or commits an offence against, any of the provisions of Regulations 23, 67, 74, 75, or 83 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £50, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months.

81. Every licensee or operator who acts in contravention of, or commits an offence against, any of these regulations for which a penalty is not hereinbefore provided shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months.

82. The Minister may, by notice in writing, revoke and determine any license on the ground of the licensee having failed to comply with any regulation for the time being in force, or with any condition of the license.

83. (1.) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, direct that, within a time to be specified in such notice, every owner of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy who, up till the 31st day of March preceding the publication of the said notice, was the holder of a license under these regulations, and who has failed to renew the said license, shall dismantle the said apparatus.

(2.) The owner of any wireless apparatus who fails within the time specified in the said notice to comply with the direction of the Minister to dismantle the same commits an offence against these regulations.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Hokianga Hospital Board in respect of a Loan of £3,500, authorized to be raised for Capital Expenditure.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of March, 1927.

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 or 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 Hokianga Hospital Board has been authorized to borrow the sum of three thousand five hundred pounds for capital expenditure:

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

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