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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

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 20th day of August, 1941.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 respective loans or any parts thereof, together with interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or half-yearly instalments extending over the respective terms 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-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) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

SCHEDULE.

T. R. AICKIN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 40/416/6.)

Consenting to the Raising of the Balance (£2,300) of a Loan of £9,200 by the Christchurch Drainage Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of August, 1941.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine (hereinafter called “the said Order in Council”), and subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment therein set out, consent was given to the raising by the Christchurch Drainage Board (hereinafter called “the said local authority”) of a loan of nine thousand two hundred pounds (£9,200) to be known as “Drainage Loan, 1939, No. 2” (hereinafter called “the said loan”):

And whereas the authority conferred by the said Order in Council has not yet been exercised to the extent of two thousand three hundred pounds (£2,300):

And whereas the authority has lapsed in accordance with the provisions of clause seven thereof, and it is not now lawful or competent for the said local authority to raise any further portion of the said loan except in accordance with the provisions of a further Order in Council that may be issued pursuant to section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called “the said Act”):

And whereas it is expedient to authorize the said local authority to raise the balance of the said loan amounting to two thousand three hundred pounds (£2,300) (hereinafter called “the said sum”) on the conditions hereinafter mentioned:

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 up to the amount of two thousand three hundred pounds (£2,300) 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 raised shall not exceed twenty-five (25) 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 four pounds (£4) per centum per annum.

(3) The said local authority shall, before raising the said sum 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 at a rate or rates per centum which shall be not less than two pounds ten shillings (£2 10s.), such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said sum 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 sum or any part thereof so raised.

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

(5) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of the said sum 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 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.

T. R. AICKIN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/197/14.)