1770
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of specified Loans or Portions thereof on the Instalment-repayment System and prescribing Rates of Interest.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day of June, 1931.
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the local authorities mentioned in the Second Column of the Schedule hereto have 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 said local authorities are desirous of raising the respective amounts set out in the said Fifth Column of the said Schedule upon terms of making the same, together with interest thereon, repayable by instalments extending over periods not exceeding the respective periods set out in the Seventh Column of the said Schedule:

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, to the borrowing by the said local authorities of the respective loans aforesaid at respective rates of interest being such as 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 sections thirty-two and one hundred and fourteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, 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 consent to the raising by the 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 Fifth Column of the said Schedule, at rates of interest being such as shall not produce to the lenders rates exceeding the respective rates specified in the Sixth Column of the said Schedule, upon terms of making the said sums, together with interest thereon, repayable by instalments extending over periods not exceeding the respective periods set out in the Seventh Column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

(T. 40/416/6.)
F. D. THOMSON, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Opossum Regulations (Amendment No. 1).

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day of June, 1931.
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, 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 make the following amending regulations by way of amendment to the Opossum Regulations, 1930 (hereinafter called “the principal regulations”).

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Opossum Regulations (Amendment No. 1), and shall be read together with and form part of the principal regulations.

2. Regulation 8 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by revoking clause (1) thereof and by substituting the following clause in lieu thereof:—

(1) In respect of the skin of every opossum taken and killed in New Zealand, where the skin is submitted for stamping in the Acclimatization District in which the opossum was taken, there shall be payable the sum of 6d. by way of royalty.

In respect of every opossum-skin imported into New Zealand, there shall be payable the sum of 1s. by way of royalty.

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

(I.A. 25/16/17.)

Order in Council prescribing the Rate of Interest in respect of the Blenheim Borough Council’s Loan of £2,000.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 9th day of June, 1931.
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Blenheim Borough Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) has been authorized to borrow in respect of a loan to be known as “Streets Improvement Loan, 1931,” the sum of two thousand pounds, and the said sum has not yet been borrowed:

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 (hereinafter called “the said section”), to the borrowing by the said local authority of the said sum of two thousand pounds at such rate or rates of interest as shall not produce to the lenders a rate exceeding the rate 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 section and by the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby prescribe that the said sum of two thousand pounds or any part thereof may be raised in respect of the said loan by the said local authority 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, and the said local authority is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum accordingly.

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

(T. 49/221/2.)