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after the filing of the said petition as required by section
sixty-one of the said Act, and that the time for commencing
such hearing should be extended :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities vested in him by the Local Elections and
Polls Act, 1925, 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,
doeth hereby extend the time for the commencement of the
hearing of the said inquiry until the twenty-second day of
June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight; and,
further, doth declare that the Stipendiary Magistrate sitting
at Taupo shall have the same power to exercise the jurisdiction
conferred upon him by the said Act as if the hearing of the
said inquiry were commenced within fourteen days of the
date of the filing of the said petition.

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

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan by the
Lower Hutt Borough Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of
June, 1928.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of the Local Government
Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called "the said
Act"), it is provided that, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in any Act, it shall not be lawful or competent for
any local authority to borrow or contract to borrow any
money (otherwise than in anticipation of its revenue within
the limits of its powers, if any, in that behalf), whether from
the State Advances Office or from any other source whatever,
and whether in pursuance of a special Act or under any
authority whatever, without the precedent consent of the
Governor-General in Council given after compliance with the
provisions of the said Act:

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 im-
posed:

And whereas the Lower Hutt Borough Council is desirous
of raising a loan of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000) to be
known as the Street-widening Loan, 1928, of £20,000, for the
purpose of acquiring land for street-widening, including
formation and construction of streets:

And whereas the Lower Hutt Borough Council has 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 loan on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth:

And whereas by section one hundred and fourteen of the
Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, it is provided that, notwith-
standing 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 this 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 Minister of Finance has given his pre-
cedent consent as required by the said 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, 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 by section one hundred
and fourteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, and of
all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf,
doth hereby consent to the raising of the said Street-widening

Loan, 1928, of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000) by the
Lower Hutt Borough Council, subject to the following con-
ditions :—

1. That the said loan may be borrowed for a term of five
   (5) years.

2. That the rate of interest payable in respect of the said
   loan shall not exceed six pounds (£6) per centum
   per annum.

3. That one-third of the loan shall be redeemable during
   the first two years of the currency of the loan, a
   further one-third during the third and fourth years,
   and the amount outstanding at the end of the fifth
   year shall be repaid on maturity date.

4. That no portion of interest shall be paid out of loan-
   money.

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

Recreation Reserve in North Auckland 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 25th day of
June, 1928.

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,
acting 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 North Auckland 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 form part of the Birkenhead
Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as
a public domain by the Birkenhead Domain Board.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, con-
taining by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods 30.7 perches, more
or less, being part Allotment 122, Parish of Takapuna, Wai-
temata County: As the same is more particularly delineated
on the plan marked L. and S. 1/522A, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington,
and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 24467.)

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

Recreation Reserve in Southland 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 25th day of
June, 1928.

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 Southland 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 Wairio Domain, and be managed,
administered, and dealt with as a public domain.

SCHEDULE.

WAIRIO DOMAIN.—SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
SECTIONS 10, 11, and 12, Block V, Wairio Village: Area,
14 acres 0 roods 26 perches.

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