July 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2301

being such as shall not produce to the lenders a rate exceeding the rate of five pounds fifteen shillings 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 by the said local authority of the said loan up to the amount of twenty-one thousand five hundred pounds for a term of twenty years, at such rate or rates of interest as shall not produce to the lenders a rate exceeding the rate of five pounds fifteen shillings per centum per annum, subject to the condition that the said local authority shall, before borrowing the said sum or any part thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by establishing a sinking fund under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and shall thereafter make 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 rate of two pounds 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 on any moneys so borrowed.

F. D. THOMSON
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/244.)

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £5,200 by the Lower Hutt Borough Council.

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 Lower Hutt Borough Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) is desirous of raising the sum of five thousand two hundred pounds by a loan to be known as “Relief of Unemployment Loan, 1930,” for the purpose of undertaking specified street works for the relief of unemployment :

And whereas the said local authority has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council under the said Act should be given to the raising of the said loan on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth :

And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his precedent consent as required by section one hundred and fourteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, to the borrowing by the said local authority of the said sum of five thousand two hundred pounds, at a rate or rates of interest being such as shall not produce to the lenders a rate exceeding the rate of five pounds fifteen shillings 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 by the said local authority of the said loan up to the amount of five thousand two hundred pounds for a term of twenty-five years, at such rate or rates of interest as shall not produce to the lenders a rate exceeding the rate of five pounds fifteen shillings per centum per annum, subject to the condition that the said local authority shall, before borrowing the said sum or any part thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by establishing a sinking fund under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and shall thereafter make 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 rate of two pounds two shillings 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 on any moneys so borrowed, and subject to the further condition that no portion of interest or sinking fund shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

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

(T. 49/11/15.)

Suspending the Operation of certain Statutes in connection with the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition of Industries.

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.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Exhibitions Act, 1910 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), 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 holding of a public exhibition of works of industry and art to be conducted by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Incorporated) and the Canterbury Manufacturers Association (Incorporated) in the King Edward Barracks at Christchurch, from the ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, to the twenty-third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty (both dates inclusive), and to be known as the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition of Industries, and doth hereby declare the said exhibition to be an exhibition within the meaning of the said Act, and doth hereby suspend, subject, however, to the conditions set out in the Schedule hereto, all the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, the Factories Act, 1921–22, and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and of all awards and industrial agreements in force under the last-named Act in so far as such provisions relate to the hours of commencing or ceasing work, or to the issue of permits for overtime or extended hours, or to holidays or half-holidays, or to the closing of shops to any person, and so far as such provisions relate to hours of work done or business conducted or service carried out in or upon the premises aforesaid during the period aforesaid by or on behalf of the bodies conducting the said exhibition, or by or on behalf of any exhibitor of works of industry or art at the said exhibition, or by any person employed in or about the said exhibition.

SCHEDULE.

1. Eight hours shall constitute a day’s work in or about the exhibition and, with the exception set out in clause 2 hereof, such hours shall be worked consecutively.

2. No person shall be employed in or about the exhibition for more than four hours without an interval of at least three-quarters of an hour for a meal.

3. Any person employed during any day in or about the exhibition who is employed on such day in excess of eight hours or before the hour of 8 a.m. or after the hour of 10.30 p.m. (whether such excess employment is in or about the exhibition or otherwise) shall be paid for such excess employment at not less than one-half as much again as the ordinary rate for the first two hours and at not less than twice the ordinary rate thereafter, and any person employed in or about the exhibition on any day that would, but for the provisions of this Order in Council, have been a whole holiday for such person by virtue of any Act or of any award or industrial agreement shall be paid for all work done on such day at not less than twice the ordinary rate, whether such work is performed wholly in or about the exhibition or otherwise.

4. No female shall be employed in or about the exhibition after the hour of 10.30 p.m.

5. For the purposes of the enforcement of an award or industrial agreement, any provision of which has been suspended by this Order in Council, any officer of the industrial union or association concerned, who is authorized in writing in that behalf by such union or association, shall be entitled to interview at his place of employment any person employed in or about the exhibition under that award or industrial agreement at such time or times as may be agreed upon by and between such officer and the employer of such person, and for this purpose any such officer shall be entitled at any reasonable time to have access to the register of passes issued by the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition Executive.

6. Nothing in this Order in Council shall be deemed to affect any provisions in an award or industrial agreement relating to preference of employment.

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