Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3669

By omitting from Regulation 175 the words “Minister forwarded under cover to the Permanent Head,” and substituting therefor the words “Government Railways Board.”

By omitting from Regulation 177 the figures “59” and substituting therefor the figures “80.”

The regulations made on the 20th day of October, 1924, are hereby amended by making the following alterations to the Second Schedule thereto:—

By omitting from the regulation made on the 21st day of February, 1927, the figures “(11)” and substituting therefor the figures “(12).”

By adding thereto, the following regulation:—

“13. In any grading or regrading of positions made pursuant to the provisions of section 8 of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1927, the maximum salary for any position in the First Division may be fixed at the rate of salary prescribed for any subgrade of any grade. This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation from the 1st day of April, 1927.”

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

Amending Regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, as to Pickled and Smoked Meat and Manufactured Meats.—(H. 2/69.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of December, 1927

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, and of all other powers 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 make the following regulations, amending the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of the same month, at page 1505 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”), and doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall be read together with and be deemed part of the principal regulations.

REGULATIONS.

REGULATION 36 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by:—

(a) Deleting from clause (4) thereof the words “saltpetre (potassium or sodium nitrate).”

(b) Deleting from clause (5) thereof the words “saltpetre (potassium or sodium nitrate).”

(c) Deleting clause (6) thereof, including the heading “Prohibition,” and substituting therefor the following:—

“Permitted Addition.

“(6) To pickled and corned and smoked meat and to manufactured meat as standardized in clauses (4) and (5) hereof respectively saltpetre (potassium or sodium nitrate) may be added in proportion not exceeding fourteen grains to the pound, calculated as potassium nitrate (KNO₃), or in lieu thereof, potassium nitrate or sodium nitrate in proportion not exceeding one and one-half grains to the pound, calculated as sodium nitrate (NaNO₂).”

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

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street in the City of Christchurch of a Width less than 66 ft. but not less than 40 ft.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of December, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, 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 authorize the Christchurch City Council to permit the laying-off of the street, coloured red on the plan referred to in the Schedule hereto, of a width less than sixty-six feet but not less than forty feet, within the area described in the Schedule hereto, it being inexpedient to lay off a street of a width of sixty-six feet within such area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the Canterbury Land District, City of Christchurch, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods 30 perches, being part of Rural Section 148. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 70171, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green.

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

(P.W. 51/1098.)

Consenting to stopping Portion of Road in Block VII, Tokatoka Survey District, Hobson County.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of December, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 consent to the Hobson County Council stopping the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be stopped: 2 acres 0 roods 10 perches.

Adjoining or passing through part Section 34 and Section 33, Whakahara Parish.

Situated in Block VII, Tokatoka Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 21851.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 70674, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

(P.W. 33/1046/1.)

Consenting under the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, to the Raising of a Loan by the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of December, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the borrowing by the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board of the sum of two thousand six hundred pounds for the purpose of carrying out river works, subject to the following conditions:—

1. The said sum may be borrowed for a term not exceeding twenty years.

2. The Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board shall, before borrowing the said sum or any part thereof, make provision for the repayment of the said sum by establishing a sinking fund under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and by making to such sinking fund payments at intervals of not more than one year, at a rate which shall be not less than three per centum, such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said sum for the time being so borrowed and not repaid, and the first payment to be made not later than one year after the first day from which interest to the lender is computed.

3. That no portion of interest or sinking fund shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

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