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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

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 17th day of November, 1937.

Present:

THE RIGHT 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 procuration 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.

Consenting to the Raising of Portion (£42,000) of the North Auckland Electric-power Board’s Reticulation Loan, 1935, of £267,000.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1937.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. M. J. SAVAGE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by a poll of ratepayers taken on the eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, the North Auckland Electric-power Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) was authorized to borrow by way of loan the sum of two hundred and sixty-seven thousand pounds (£267,000) by a loan to be known as “Reticulation Loan, 1935,” for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, and providing electric works as defined in the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, in order to supply and to extend the supply of electricity within the whole of the North Auckland Electric-power District, including extensions, preliminary expenses, contingencies, incidentals, costs of raising the loan, and payment out of loan-money of interest on the loan for the first year:

And whereas the sum of one hundred and eighty-three thousand pounds (£183,000) has been raised:

And whereas the said local authority, being desirous of raising a further portion—forty-two thousand pounds (£42,000) (hereinafter called “the said sum”)—of 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 sum.:

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 sum for the said purpose up to the amount of forty-two thousand pounds (£42,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) The term for which the said sum 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 sum 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 sum shall be free of principal repayments for the first two years of the loan.

(4) The said sum or any part thereof together with interest thereon shall thereafter be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over a period not exceeding twenty (20) years.

(5) The payment of interest and the payment of such instalments shall be made in New Zealand, and no such instalments or interest after the first year shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procuration fees in respect of the raising of the said sum or any part thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-half per centum of any amount raised.

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

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/503/1.)