Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3685

and shall be read with all General Harbour Regulations heretofore made and now in force :

GENERAL HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

(1) No vessel engaged in towing rafts of logs or timber shall tow a raft exceeding 300 ft. in length, and the distance between the towing vessel and the raft shall in no case exceed 100 ft.

(2) Any master or any person in charge of a vessel offending against the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £100.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Ashley River Trust.

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.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for river-protection purposes : And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Ashley River Trust : Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Ashley River Trust, in trust, for river-protection purposes.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.
RESERVE 1836, Block I, Mairaki Survey District: Area, 8 acres, more or less.

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

Recreation Reserve in Hawke's Bay Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

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.
BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Hawke's Bay Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the same is hereby brought under the operation of, and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act, and such reserve shall hereafter be known as the Pourerere Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 22 acres 2 roods 25·62 perches, more or less, being Section 32, Block XII, Pourerere Survey District ; Bounded towards the north-west by Lots 4 and 3 of D.P. 3762, a distance of 572 links ; towards the north-east, east, and south-east by the South Pacific Ocean, a distance of 5,000 links (approx.) ; and towards the west by Lot 4 D.P. 3762, a distance of 3928 links : Save and excepting Sections 1–23, inclusive, and shown edged green on plan. Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/863, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by the South Invercargill Borough Council.

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.
WHEREAS the South Invercargill Borough Council has obtained, in terms of section fourteen of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, exemption from the requirements of that Act in respect of the loans mentioned in the Schedule hereto :
And whereas application has been made under section twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council to enable the said local authority to borrow the sums set out in the said Schedule :
Now, therefore, 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 raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the South Invercargill Borough Council, and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loans.

SCHEDULE.
£
MIDDLE Ward Area—Public Works Loan (balance) .. 500
North Ward Area—Public Works Loan (balance) .. 300

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Masterton Borough Council may borrow the Sum of £1,000, authorized to be raised for completing certain Drainage Works within the North Ward, and also the Rate of Interest payable thereon.

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.
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 Masterton Borough Council has been authorized to borrow the sum of one thousand pounds for completing certain drainage works within the North Ward :
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 twenty 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 Masterton Borough Council may borrow the said sum of one thousand pounds shall be twenty 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 Masterton Borough Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one thousand pounds accordingly.

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