Feb. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 339

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £9,500 by the Christchurch Fire Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of February, 1936.

Present:
THE HON. M. J. SAVAGE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Christchurch Fire Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”), being desirous of raising the sum of nine thousand five hundred pounds (£9,500) by a loan to be known as “Building Loan, 1936” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), 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 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 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 in New Zealand by the said local authority of the said loan up to the amount of nine thousand five hundred pounds (£9,500), 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 be seventeen (17) 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 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 of not less than two hundred pounds (£200) per annum for the first three years of the currency of the loan and of not less than five hundred pounds (£500) per annum for the remaining period of the loan, 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) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of the said loan shall be paid out of loan-money.

(5) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said loan or any part 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 loan 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.

(T. 49/253/1.) C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of February, 1936.

Present:
THE HON. M. J. SAVAGE PRESIDING 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 in New Zealand 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.) C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
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