Mar. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 557

Leasehold Estate or Interest in Land taken for the Development of Water Power (Featherston Substation) in Block I, Huangarua Survey District.

[L.S.] C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the leasehold estate or interest in the land described in the Schedule hereto, created by memorandum of lease to William Frank Mason for a term of twenty-one years from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three and registered in the Land Registry Office at Wellington as No. 19643, is hereby taken for the development of water power; and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the tenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land in respect of which the leasehold estate or interest is taken: 3 acres 1 rood 7·4 perches.

Being part Section 37, Moroa Block.

Situated in Block I, Huangarua Survey District. (S.O. 20659.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 109966, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 1st day of March, 1941.

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(P.W. 58/336/0.)

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Parts of the Defence Forces called out for Military Service.

[L.S.] C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Defence Emergency Regulations 1939, the Governor-General may by Proclamation call out the Defence Forces or any part thereof for military service: And whereas, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Emergency Regulations 1939, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby call out for military service for purposes of defence in New Zealand the following parts of the Defence Forces, namely:—

(1) As from the 7th January, 1941—
The 29th Light Aid Detachment, New Zealand Ordnance Corps (attached 7th New Zealand Infantry Brigade).

(2) As from the 1st April, 1941—
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Field Hygiene Sections, New Zealand Medical Corps.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 26th day of February, 1941.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £11,300 by the Takapuna Borough Council and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of February, 1941.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Takapuna Borough Council (hereinafter called “the said local authority”), being desirous of raising the sum of eleven thousand three hundred pounds (£11,300) by a loan to be known as “Sewerage Supplementary Loan, 1940” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of completing the work for which the Sewerage Loan, 1925, of £119,000 was raised, 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 eleven thousand three hundred pounds (£11,300), 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-five (25) 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 four pounds (£4) per centum per annum.

(3) The said loan or any part thereof shall be repaid by equal annual instalments of principal of not less than four hundred and fifty-two pounds (£452) each.

(4) The payment of interest and instalments of principal in respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand, and no amount payable as interest or principal 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 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. 49/120.)

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Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of February, 1941.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the several local authorities enumerated in the Schedule hereto are desirous of raising loans, to be known in each case as “Rural Housing Loan, 1941,” of the respective amounts stated opposite their names in the second column of the said Schedule, from the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”), for the purpose of enabling the said local authorities out of the respective loans so raised to make advances to farmers under the Rural Housing Act, 1939:

And whereas the said local authorities 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, from the Corporation of the said loans up to the respective amounts specified in the second column of the said Schedule, and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

(1) Each local authority shall pay to the Corporation each half-year in reduction of the principal moneys advanced by the Corporation to such local authority an amount equal to the sum of all the amounts which are expressed to be payable to that local authority during such half-year by the agreements entered into with the local authority by the various farmers to whom the said local authority has advanced any of the loan-moneys.

(2) The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of each of the said loans or so much thereof as is for the time being raised and not repaid shall be three pounds (£3) per centum per annum payable half-yearly, the first such payment to be made in each case not later than six months after the date