Dec. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3629

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Whenuapai Public Hall Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”), with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Friday in each month at eight o’clock p.m. at Mr. A. J. R. Clarke’s residence, Whenuapai, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Friday, the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.
2. All members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.
3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two day’s notice of any such meeting is given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.
4. Any three members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.
6. If by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself without reasonable cause from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.
7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at meeting.
8. The Board shall have prepared and submitted at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.
9. The Board shall control the said reserve and any building that may be erected thereon for the purpose of a public hall, and shall also afford settlers and residents of Whenuapai and the surrounding district such facilities for meeting within the said building as may from time to time be determined by the Board: Provided that the Board shall have power to fix reasonable charges for the use of the said building.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the North Auckland Land District containing by admeasurement 1 acre 4 perches, more or less, being Lot 24 shown on land transfer plan No. 15956, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland: As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 22/3630/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Stratford County Council may borrow the Sum of £3,500, being a further Portion of a Loan of £22,000, authorized to be raised for effecting Road Improvements in and purchasing Machinery for the West Riding, and also the Rate of Interest payable thereon.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., 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 Stratford County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of twenty-two thousand pounds for effecting road improvements in and purchasing machinery for the West Riding, and is now desirous of raising the sum of three thousand five hundred pounds, being a further portion of the loan of twenty-two 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 term for which the money may be borrowed be thirty years, and the rate of interest payable thereon 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 term for which the Stratford County Council may borrow the said sum of three thousand five hundred pounds shall be thirty years, and the rate of interest that may be paid thereon 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 three thousand five hundred pounds accordingly.

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Stratford County Council may borrow the Sum of £2,500, being a further Portion of a Loan of £35,000, authorized to be raised for effecting Road Improvements in and purchasing Machinery for the East Riding, and also the Rate of Interest payable thereon.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of November, 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 Stratford County Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of thirty-five thousand pounds for effecting road improvements and purchasing machinery for the East Riding, and is now desirous of raising the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds, being a further portion of the loan of thirty-five 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 term for which the money may be borrowed be thirty years, and the rate of interest payable thereon 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 term for which the Stratford County Council may borrow the said sum of two thousand five hundred pounds shall be thirty years, and the rate of interest that may be paid thereon 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 two thousand five hundred pounds accordingly.

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