Nov. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2759

Exemption of certain Native Lands in the Sounds County from Payment of Rates.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of November, 1933.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS under the authority of section one hundred and four of the Rating Act, 1925, and as therein mentioned, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, exempt any Native land liable to rates from all or any part of such rates, and such Order in Council may apply to any specified class of lands :

And whereas it is desirable that such power should be exercised in respect of the specified class of lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said Act and of every other power thereunto him by 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 exempt the Native land named in the Schedule hereto from all rates made or levied by the Valuer-General acting under the authority conferred upon him by the provisions of section 58 or 59 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, and the Rating Act, 1925.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL Native lands situated within the Sounds County (including the Croixelles Road District), excepting thereout such Native lands as are subject to subsisting leases to Europeans.

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

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Gratuities for Conveyance of Mails by Passenger-coaches or other Vehicles.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of November, 1933.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, 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 revoke the Order in Council dated the twelfth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of the same month, at page 1133, determining the amount of gratuities to be paid to the proprietors of passenger-coaches or other vehicles for the conveyance of mails, and doth hereby determine that such gratuities shall be in accordance with and at the rate set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

The proprietor of any passenger-coach or other vehicle plying for hire required to receive and convey mails in accordance with section 44 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, shall be paid a gratuity at the following rate : 1d. per bag per mile, with a minimum payment of 6d. per bag.

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

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Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £210 by the Kahutara River Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of November, 1933.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the Kahutara River Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”), being desirous of raising the sum of two hundred and ten pounds (£210) by a loan to be known as “Stop-bank Repair Loan, 1933” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of carrying out repairs to stop-banks in the Board’s district, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loan :

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 section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), 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 two hundred and ten pounds (£210), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows :—

1. The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed two (2) years.

2. The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loan or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum.

3. The said loan shall be repaid by instalments of principal of not less than one hundred pounds (£100) in the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and the balance in the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six.

4. No such instalment and no portion of interest on the loan shall be paid out of loan-money.

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

(T. 49/428.)

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Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £10,000 by the Ashburton Electric-power Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of November, 1933.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the Ashburton Electric-power Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”), being desirous of raising the sum of ten thousand pounds (£10,000) by a loan to be known as “Special Loan, 1929,” for the purpose of extending the Power Board’s undertaking, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, and it is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loan :

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 section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, as set out in section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 2), 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 ten thousand pounds (£10,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows :—

1. The term for which the said loan or any part thereof may be raised shall not exceed twenty-two (22) years.

2. The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loan or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate exceeding four pounds two shillings and sixpence (£4 2s. 6d.) per centum per annum.

3. The said local authority shall, before raising the said loan 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 payments to such sinking fund at intervals of not more than one year, at a rate or rates per centum which shall be not less than three pounds (£3), such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said loan for the time being so raised and not repaid, the first such payment to be made not later than one year after the first day from which interest to the lender or lenders is computed on any amount so raised.

4. The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and pro-curation fees in respect of the raising of the said loan or any part thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum on any amount raised.

5. No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of any moneys raised pursuant to this consent shall be paid out of such moneys.

6. The payment of interest and repayment of principal in respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand.

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

(T. 49/378.)