Sept. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2869

STORAGE.

Every person, firm, company, or corporate body whose goods are stored in any shed or bin upon any wharf, after the expiry of seven days, shall pay, before receipt of such goods (when called on by the Council or wharfinger so to do), storage for such goods as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say :—

For each and every day or part of a day— s. d.
For metal or shingle (per cubic yard) .. .. 1 0
For all other goods (per ton or part of a ton, weight or measurement) .. .. .. 1 0

PENALTIES.

If any person, firm, or company—
(1) Permits any offensive matter to be placed on or about any wharf premises, or
(2) Deposits the remains and/or the offal of fish about any wharf premises, or
(3) Uses any wharf premises or sheds for private purposes or for any purpose for which such wharf or shed was not intended,
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £20.

All landing-dues shall be paid quarterly, on returns to be furnished to the Clerk of the said Council, or other person appointed by the said Council, by the receiver of the goods, or on returns from the books of the master or owner of the vessel which carried them.

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

Regulations under the Samoa Act, 1921.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1927.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa, conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as “the Samoa Commissions of Inquiry Order, 1927.”

2. The Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908 (as amended by the Commissions of Inquiry Amendment Act, 1920), hereinafter called “the said Act,” and the scale of costs made under the Commissioners Act, 1903, on the fifteenth day of December, 1903, and enuring under the said Act shall extend and apply to and be in force in Western Samoa.

3. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, section 2 thereof shall be deemed to extend to the administration of the Government of Samoa and to the conduct of any officer in the Samoa Public Service (as defined by the Samoa Act, 1921) or the New Zealand Reparation Estates Service (as defined by the New Zealand Reparation Estates Service Order, 1926).

4. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, section 6 thereof shall be read as though after the words “Courts of law” were added the words “in New Zealand proper.”

5. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, subsection (1) of section 8 thereof shall be read as though for the words “Minister of Internal Affairs” were substituted the words “Minister of External Affairs or the Administrator,” and as though after the words “Consolidated Fund” were added “or out of the Samoan Treasury as, having regard to the circumstances, the Minister of Finance may think fit.”

6. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, section 12 thereof shall be read as though there were added thereto the following additional subsection :—

“(4) The Court so named may nevertheless, irrespective of the amount recoverable under the order, if the person by whom any costs are ordered to be paid is, in the opinion of the Commission, resident in Samoa, be the High Court of Western Samoa.”

7. In the application of the said Act to Western Samoa, subsection (2) of section 13 thereof shall be read as though after the words “Supreme Court” were inserted the words “or High Court of Western Samoa,” and as though for the words “that Court” were substituted the words “such Court.”

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Stratford County Council in respect of a Loan of £170, authorized to be raised for the Purpose of completing the Metalling of Portions of Stanley and Makara Roads.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1927.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS 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 Stratford County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of one thousand seven hundred pounds for metalling portions of Stanley and Makara Roads, and is now desirous of borrowing an additional sum of one hundred and seventy 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 Stratford County Council in respect of the said loan of one hundred and seventy pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the said Stratford County Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one hundred and seventy pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Rate of Interest that may be paid by the Whangarei County Council in respect of a Loan of £3,500, being the Balance of a Loan of £12,250, authorized to be raised for widening, forming, and metalling Roads in the Otonga Riding.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of September, 1927.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS 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 Whangarei County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and fifty pounds for widening, forming, and metalling roads in the Otonga Riding, and is now desirous of raising the sum of three thousand five hundred pounds, being the balance of the loan of twelve thousand two hundred and fifty 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 :