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so restored, and may recover the costs incurred by the said
removal and restoration from the company.

14. The erection of the said timber-booms shall be sufficient
    evidence of the acceptance by the company of the terms and
    conditions of this Order in Council.

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

Members appointed to Ratanui Memorial Public Hall Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of
July, 1930.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the third day
of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-
eight, and published in the Gazette of the sixth day of that
month, the control of Section 29, Block III, Woodland Survey
District, in the Otago Land District, a reserve for a site for a
public hall, was vested in certain persons therein named, who
were by the said Order in Council constituted a special Board,
by the name of the Ratanui Memorial Public Hall Board, in
pursuance of section two of the Public Reserves and Domains
Amendment Act, 1914:

And whereas it is desirable that William Faulkner and
Alexander Anderson, of Ratanui, should be appointed members
of the said Board, in place of John Winter Findlater, and
Samuel Robert Miller McDowell, who have left the district:

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 conferred on him by
section seventeen of the Public Reserves, Domains, and
National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby appoint the said

William Faulkner and
Alexander Anderson

to be members of the Ratanui Memorial Public Hall Board,
constituted by the Order in Council dated the third day of
September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight,
hereinbefore referred to, in place of the said John Winter
Findlater, and Samuel Robert Miller McDowell, who have
left the district.

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

(L. and S. 22/3246.)

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Chatham Islands
County Council’s Loan of £10,000.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of
July, 1930.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Chatham Islands County Council lately
proceeded to raise a loan of ten thousand pounds
under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926 (hereinafter referred
to as “the said Act”), for the purpose of erecting a hardwood
wharf at the Port of Waitangi, Chatham Islands:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said
loan were irregular or defective in that—

(a) Public notice of the date on which the poll was taken
was not given as required by section eleven, sub-
section two, of the said Act:

(b) The poll was not taken not more than three weeks
after the day of the last publication of the notice
mentioned in section ten of the said Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district
have not been misled by such irregularities or defects as
aforesaid, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section
one hundred and twenty-two of the said Act, and of all other
powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare
that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be
valid to all intents and purposes as though—

(a) Public notice of the date on which the poll was taken
had been given in terms of section eleven of the
said Act:

(b) The poll was taken not more than three weeks after
day of the last publication of the notice mentioned
in section ten of the said Act:

And that the validity of the proceedings in connection with
the said loan, or the validity of the security for the said loan,
shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregu-
larities or defects aforesaid.

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

(T. 49/380.)

Order in Council prescribing the Rates of Interest that may be paid by certain Local Authorities in respect of specified Loans or Portions thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of July, 1930.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS each of the local authorities mentioned in the Second Column of the Schedule hereto has been authorized
to borrow, in respect of the loans referred to in the Third Column of the said Schedule, the respective sums stated
in the Fourth Column of the said Schedule, and the respective amounts shown in the Fifth Column of the said Schedule have
not been borrowed:

And whereas the Minister of Finance has in each case given his precedent consent as required by section one hundred and
fourteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926 (hereinafter called “the said section”), and it is desired that the rates of interest
at which the money may be borrowed be rates which shall not produce to the lenders rates exceeding the respective rates specified
in the Sixth Column of 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on him by the said section and by section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and of all other
powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby prescribe that each of the amounts set out in the Fifth Column
of the said Schedule may be raised by the respective local authority whose name is set out in the Second Column of the said
Schedule, at a rate of interest being such as shall not produce to the lender a rate exceeding the respective rates specified in
the Sixth Column of the said Schedule, and the respective local authorities are hereby authorized to borrow the respective
sums accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

(T. 40/416/6.)

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