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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of August, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the several local authorities enumerated in the Schedule hereto, being desirous of raising the respective loans stated opposite their names therein, have respectively 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, as required by the said Act, should be given to the raising of the said loans:

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 said Act, 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 respective local authorities mentioned in the First Column of the said Schedule of the respective loans set out in the Second Column of the said Schedule, up to the respective amounts specified in the Third Column of the said Schedule, and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

1. The terms for which the said loans or any parts thereof may be raised shall be the respective terms (in years) stated in the Fourth Column of the said Schedule.

2. The rates of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loans or any parts thereof shall be such as shall not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding the respective rates per centum per annum stated in the Fifth Column of the said Schedule.

3. The said local authorities shall, before raising the said respective loans or any parts thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by establishing sinking funds under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable in any respective case, and shall thereafter make payments to such sinking funds at intervals of not more than one year, at a rate or rates per centum which shall be not less than the respective rates stated in the Sixth Column of the said Schedule, such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said respective loans for the time being so borrowed and not repaid, the first such payment in each respective case to be made not later than one year after the first day from which interest to the lender or lenders is computed on any loan or part thereof so raised.

4. No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of the said loans shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

5. The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said respective loans or any parts thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.

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

7. No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

SCHEDULE.

(T. 40/416/6.)
A. W. MULLIGAN, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of the Balance (£20,000) of a Loan of £150,000 by the Thames Valley Electric-power Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of August, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-second idem, at page 2158, consent was given to the raising by the Thames Valley Electric-power Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) of a loan of £150,000 for electricity works, and the authority so conferred has not been exercised to the extent of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000):

And whereas by section nine of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Amendment Act, 1934, the consent given by the said Order in Council was revoked in so far as the authority conferred thereby had not been exercised, and it is not now lawful or competent for the said local authority to borrow any moneys to which such consent relates except in accordance with the provisions of an Order in Council under section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926:

And whereas it is expedient to authorize the said local authority to borrow on the conditions hereinafter mentioned the aforesaid sum of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000) (hereinafter called “the said sum”), being the whole of the moneys to which the said consent relates:

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, and by section nine of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Amendment Act, 1934, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the borrowing by the said local authority of the said sum for the purpose for which the said loan was authorized, and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) The said sum may be raised upon terms of making the same, together with interest thereon at a rate that shall be such as shall not produce to the lenders a rate exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum, repayable by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over a period of twenty (20) years.

(2) The payment of such instalments shall be made in New Zealand, and no such instalment shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(3) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said sum shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum thereof.

(4) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/535.)