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And whereas section eleven of the said Act provides that the Governor-General in Council, in giving his consent to the borrowing of moneys by the local authority, may impose such conditions with respect to the time at which such moneys may be borrowed, the rate of interest that may be paid in respect thereto, the term for which they may be borrowed, and provisions for repayment thereof as he thinks fit, and that it shall not be lawful for the local authority to borrow such moneys save in accordance with the conditions so imposed :

And whereas the several local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto are desirous of raising the respective amounts set out opposite their names therein :

And whereas the said local authorities have complied with the provisions of the said Act, and it is expedient that the aforesaid precedent consent should be given to the raising of the loans on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth :

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the raising by the respective local authorities whose names are set out in the Second Column of the said Schedule of the loans referred to in the Third Column of the said Schedule up to the respective amounts set out in the Fourth Column of the said Schedule, subject to the condition that the respective local authorities shall before borrowing the said respective sums or any part thereof make provision for the repayment thereof 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 or rates which shall be not less than the respective rates per centum set out in the Fifth Column of the said Schedule, such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said respective sums 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 on any moneys so borrowed, and subject to the further condition that in no case shall any portion of interest or sinking fund be paid out of loan-moneys.

SCHEDULE.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notifying Lands in North Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction ; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

RURAL LAND.

Bay of Islands County.—Hukerenui Survey District.

SECTION 92, Block V : Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £10.

Section is situated on the Main North Road, about a quarter of a mile from Towai Railway-station by metalled road. Easy sloping to sharply undulating land. Poor quality soil. No water. Good building-site.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Whangarei County.—Parahaki Parish.

Section E 34 : Area, 18 acres 2 roods 33 perches. Upset price, £10.

Situated about five miles from Whangarei by good metalled road; and one mile from Whareora School. Undulating land, all in gorse, tea-tree, scrub, and fern. Soil is poor yellow clay on clay formation. Watered by springs. Altitude, 300 ft. to 400 ft. above sea-level.

RURAL AND VILLAGE LAND.

Whangarei County.

Mangapai Parish.

Section 134 : Area, 1 acre 1 rood 38 perches. Upset price, £3.

Mangapai Village.

Section 1 : Area, 2 roods 30 perches. Upset price, £6.

Part Section 3 : Area, 1 rood 13 perches. Upset price, £1.

Sections 23, 24, 25 : Area, 3 acres 2 roods 25 perches. Upset price, £11.

Section 28 : Area, 1 acre 0 roods 6 perches, Upset price, £4.

Section 30 : Area, 1 rood 39·6 perches. Upset price, £2.

Section 34 : Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £3.

Section 36 : Area, 1 acre. Upset price, £3.

Section 46 : Area, 2 roods. Upset price, £2.

Section 53 : Area, 5 acres 2 roods. Upset price, £17.

Section 54 : Area, 11 acres 3 roods 26·5 perches. Upset price, £36.

Weighting for Improvements.—Section 1, £7 12s. ; part Section 3, £3 ; Sections 23, 24, 25, £53 3s. 9d. ; Section 28, £9 10s. ; Section 30, £6 ; Section 34, £10 ; Section 36, £16 5s. ; Section 53, £39 7s. 6d. ; Section 54, £38 10s.

The sections are situated in the Village of Mangapai, on the Oakleigh-Mangapai Road. Access is from Oakleigh, one mile and a half distant by metalled road. Soil is poor clay resting on clay formation. Poorly watered. Level to undulating land.

Improvements consist of fencing, ploughing, and grassing. Also stable and cowshed, and another shed, 20 ft. by 12 ft., very old, on Section 54.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of December, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Confirmation of Appointment in the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,
Wellington, 12th January, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following confirmation of appointment in the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division) :—

Probationary Sub-Lieutenant Eric Mainland Foster as Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 10th August, 1927.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Clerk of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th January, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

James McIndoe

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Dunedin, Dunedin South, and Chalmers, vice H. V. Jerred.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.