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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1]

Authorizing the Borrowing by the Gisborne Fire Board by Way of Hypothecation of Debentures issued in respect of a Loan of £4,000.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of December, 1937.

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

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, consent was given to the raising in New Zealand by the Gisborne Fire Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) of the sum of four thousand pounds (£4,000) by a loan to be known as “Reconstruction Loan (Additional), 1937,” such consent being given subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment therein set out, including, inter alia, the provision that the rate of interest that might be paid in respect of the said loan or any part thereof should be such as should not produce to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum:

And whereas the said local authority pending the raising of the said loan in accordance with the said determinations is desirous of borrowing the said amount or part thereof by hypothecation or mortgage pursuant to section thirty-four of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, of the debentures authorized to be issued in respect 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 seven of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, and by section eight of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Amendment Act, 1933, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby consent to the said local authority, pending the raising of the said loan in accordance with the said determinations, borrowing the said amount of four thousand pounds (£4,000) or any part thereof by the hypothecation or mortgage of the said debentures at a rate of interest not exceeding four pounds ten shillings (£4 10s.) per centum per annum, and hereby prescribes that the money borrowed by the hypothecation or mortgage of the said debentures shall, pending the raising of the said loan, be repaid by annual instalments equivalent to the instalments of principal which would have been repaid if on the first day on which any moneys are borrowed by such hypothecation or mortgage the whole of the said loan of four thousand pounds (£4,000) had been raised on the terms prescribed in the Order in Council made on the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven.

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

(T. 49/569.)

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 15th day of December, 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 any 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.