Dec. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2467

Water-supply Loan, 1938” (hereinafter called “the said loan”) for the purpose of instituting a water-supply to the Waimeha Township Special Rating Area, and 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 for the said purpose up to the amount of three thousand three hundred pounds (£3,300), 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 (20) 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 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 ten shillings (£3 10s.), such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said loan for the time being so borrowed 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 the said loan or any part thereof so raised.

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

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

(6) 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.

(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. 49/136/5.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £10,000 by the Petone Borough Council and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 30th day of November, 1938.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Petone Borough Council (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 “Recreation-ground Grandstand Loan, 1938” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of erecting a new grandstand with dressing-accommodation in the recreation-ground and making alterations to the cycle track to permit the Rugby football-ground being laid out north and south, 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 for the said purpose 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 thirty (30) 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 or rates exceeding three pounds ten shillings (£3 10s.) per centum per annum.

(3) The said loan or any part thereof, together with interest thereon shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the term as determined in (1) above.

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

(5) The amount 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) 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. 49/267/17.)

Consenting to the Raising of Part (£2,500) of the Stratford Borough Council’s Loan of £129,500.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Government House at Wellington, this 30th day of November, 1938.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the twenty-second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, consent was given to the raising by the Stratford Borough Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) of the sum of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred pounds (£129,500) (hereinafter called “the said loan”) of which the amount of sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty pounds (£69,980) has not been raised :

And whereas by section nine of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Amendment Act, 1934, the authority conferred by the said Order in Council was revoked in so far as it had not been exercised and it is not now lawful or competent for the said authority to borrow any moneys to which the said Order in Council relates except in accordance with the provisions of an Order in Council that may be made 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 sum of two thousand five hundred pounds (£2,500) (hereinafter called “the said sum”), being part of the moneys to which the said Order in Council 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 in New Zealand by the said local authority of the said sum or any part thereof for the purpose for which the said loan was authorized and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows :—

(1) The term for which the said sum or any part thereof may be borrowed shall be ten (10) 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 together with interest thereon shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the term as determined in (1) above.

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

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

(6) 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. 49/299.)