All in the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 119525, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
coloured as above mentioned.

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 22nd day of September, 1944.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

(P.W. 45/1041.)

Amending and Extending a License authorizing the Bay of Islands
Electric-power Board to use Water for the Purpose of generating
Electricity and to maintain and use Electric Works (Puketotara
Stream Diversion)

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of
September, 1944

Present:

His EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public
Works Act, 1928, and section seventy-six of the Electric-power
Boards Act, 1925, and all other powers in anywise enabling him in
this behalf, 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, doth hereby authorize
the Bay of Islands Electric-power Board (hereinafter referred to as
“the licensee”), subject to the conditions hereinafter referred to,
to take and use from the Puketotara Stream a stream of water not
exceeding eight cubic feet per second for the purpose of generating
electricity, and doth hereby amend, as set forth in the Schedule
hereto, the Order in Council (hereinafter referred to as “the license”)
dated the third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty,
and published in the Gazette of the eleventh day of the same month
at page 690, authorizing the licensee to use water from the Keri Keri
River for the purpose of generating electricity and to maintain and
use electric works; and, further, for the purposes of section seventy-
six of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, doth hereby authorize
the licensee to construct, maintain, and use the additional works
described in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

1. VOLUME OF WATER

The operative part of the license is amended by deleting therefrom
wheresoever they appear the words “twenty-five cubic feet per
second”, and substituting therefor the words “thirty-three cubic
feet per second”.

2. ADDITIONAL WORKS AUTHORIZED

The licensee is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and
use the additional works indicated on the plan marked P.W.D.
119165, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington,
such works consisting of—

(a) A weir, with automatic intake gate and by-pass, constructed
across and in the Puketotara Stream, being a tributary
of the Keri Keri River:

(b) Water-race leading from such intake gate across Lot 1,
D.P. 29633, the Kaeo-Ohaeawai Road, Lot 1, D.P.
29895, being part O.L.C. 60, Puketotara Road, and Lot 5,
D.P. 6704, being part O.L.C. 60, Block X, Keri Keri
Survey District, North Auckland Land District, to the
watercourse shown on the said plan.

3. The said additional works and the taking and using of the
   waters of the Puketotara Stream shall be subject in every respect to
   the provisions and conditions set forth in the license as if they had
   been expressly authorized in that license from the beginning.

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

(P.W. 26/1381.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £112,000 by the Auckland City
Council and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of
September, 1944

Present:

His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

Whereas the Auckland City Council (hereinafter called “the
said local authority”), being desirous of raising a loan of one
hundred and twelve thousand pounds (£112,000), to be known as
‘Consolidated Loan, 1945’ (hereinafter called ‘the said loan”),
for the purpose of repaying, to the extent that sinking funds are

insufficient, the Zoological Loan of £20,000, the Libraries Loan of
£16,000, and the Streets Improvement Loan, 1923, of £109,000,
which mature in London on the first day of January, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-five, 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 one hundred and twelve thousand
pounds (£112,000), 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 fifteen (15) 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 rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and pro-
curation 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. 49/121/59.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £14,500 by the Wanganui
City Council and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of
September, 1944

Present:

His EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

Whereas the Wanganui City Council (hereinafter called
“the said local authority”) proposes, pursuant to the
terms of a requisition issued under section twenty-two of the Health
Act, 1920, to raise the sum of fourteen thousand five hundred
pounds (£14,500) by a loan to be known as “Crematorium Loan,
1944” (hereinafter called “the said loan”), for the purpose of
providing a crematorium for the benefit of its district:

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, 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 fourteen thousand five hundred pounds
(£14,500), 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 or rates exceeding three pounds fifteen
shillings (£3 15s.) 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 rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and pro-
curation 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. 49/159.)