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16. The Council shall be liable for any injury which may be caused at the said wharf to any vessel or boat through any default or neglect on the part of the Council.

17. In case the Council shall—
    (1) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them; or
    (2) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of thirty consecutive days;
    then, and in either of the said cases, this Order in Council and every license, right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor-General in Council without any notice to the Council or other proceedings whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the Council and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the licenses, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

18. In the event of this Order in Council being revoked for any reason whatsoever, or upon the expiry of the period for which the license is granted, the Council shall, if required by the Minister so to do, remove the said wharf entirely from the site and restore the site to its original condition within three months from the date of the revocation or expiry, as the case may be; and if the Council fails so to do, the Minister may cause the said wharf to be removed and the site so restored, and may recover the costs incurred by the said removal and restoration from the Council.

19. The erection of the said wharf shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the Council of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

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

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £360 by the Matamata County Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of May, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Matamata County Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) is desirous of raising the sum of three hundred and sixty pounds by a loan to be known as “Stokes’ and Head’s Roads Loan, 1931,” for the purpose of metalling the roads mentioned:

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 loan on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth:

And whereas the said loan is intended to be borrowed at a rate of interest not otherwise authorized, and 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 for the term and at the rate of interest hereinafter mentioned:

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 three hundred and sixty pounds for the term of twenty years, at a rate 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, 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, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable, and shall thereafter make to such sinking fund payments at intervals of not more than one year at a rate which shall be not less than three pounds per centum per annum, such payment to be made in respect of any 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 on the said loan shall be paid out of loan-money.

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

(T. 49/129/5.)

Order in Council validating Proceedings in connection with the Piako County Council’s Road-metalling Loans of £400 and £200.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of May, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Piako County Council, in pursuance of the powers contained in section seventeen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), lately proceeded to raise two loans—namely, Motumaho-Tauhei Road Loan (No. 2), 1930, of £400, and Jones’s and Jensen’s Road Loan, 1931, of £200 (hereinafter referred to as “the said loans”), for road-metalling purposes:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loans were irregular or defective in that the special rolls of ratepayers were not advertised in accordance with the provisions of section three and eighteen 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, in that all the ratepayers concerned signed the written consents under the provisions of section seventeen (e) of the said Act, and it is expedient to validate such irregularities or defects:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers 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 loans shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the special rolls had been advertised as required by the said sections three and eighteen of the said Act, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loans or the validity of the security for the said loans shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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

(T. 49/97/28.)

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £250 by the Ohinemuri County Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of May, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Ohinemuri County Council proposes to borrow, in accordance with the provisions of section three of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1928, the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds by a loan to be known as “Komata Stream Bridge Loan, 1931,” for the purpose of meeting the Council’s share of the cost of erecting a bridge over the Komata Stream on the Kopu-Raglan Main Highway:

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 Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to be borrowing by the Ohinemuri County Council of the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, 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, upon terms of making the said sum, together with interest thereon, repayable not later than one year from the date of raising the loan.

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

(T. 49/475/1.)