APRIL 24] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 521

Declaring Lands in the Wellington Land District to be subject to the Provisions of Section 23 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1939

[L.S.]

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by section twenty-three of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1939, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Proclamation declare any lands of the Crown to be subject to the provisions of that section to enable certain readjustment of leases and licenses to be carried into effect:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that the lands described in the Schedule hereto should be subject to the provisions of the said section:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so conferred upon me by subsection one of the aforesaid section twenty-three, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the gazetting hereof, the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the said section twenty-three of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1939.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

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 17th day of April, 1946.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(L. and S. 19448.)

Consenting to the Raising of £15,000 by the Petone Borough Council
and prescribing the Conditions thereof

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 10th day of April, 1946

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the twenty-third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, and subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment therein set out, consent was given to the raising by the Petone Borough Council (hereinafter called the said local authority) of a loan of fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000), to be known as Stormwater Diversion Loan, 1941 (hereinafter called the said loan):

And whereas the authority conferred by the said Order in Council has not yet been exercised:

And whereas the authority has lapsed in accordance with the provisions of clause six of the said Order in Council, and it is not now lawful or competent for the said local authority to raise the said loan or any portion thereof 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 the said local authority is now desirous of raising the said loan, and it is expedient to authorize the said local authority to raise the said loan on the conditions hereinafter set out:

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 up to the amount of fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000) 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 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 three pounds seven shillings and sixpence (£3 7s. 6d.) 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 such instalments shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(5) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the borrowing 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.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/267/19.)

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE

Commander Peter Phipps, D.S.C. and bar, V.D., R.N.Z.N.,
Commanding Officer, H.M.N.Z.S. “Philomel.”
Commander Leo Patrick Bourke, D.S.C. and bar, R.D., R.N.Z.N.,
Commanding Officer, H.M.N.Z.S. “Tamaki.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of April, 1946.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Appointing a Non-elective Member of the Nelson Catchment Board

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the second day of June one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 48 of the eighth day of the same month, Herbert Roche, Esquire, Nelson, was appointed a non-elective member of the Nelson Catchment Board in terms of section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941:

And whereas the said Herbert Roche has resigned from membership of the said Board, and it is considered expedient to appoint another non-elective member in lieu of the said Herbert Roche:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby cancel the appointment of the said Herbert Roche to be a non-elective member of the Nelson Catchment Board, and do hereby appoint Courtney Biggs, Esquire, Conservator of Forests, State Forest Service, Nelson,

to be a non-elective member of the Nelson Catchment Board for a term commencing on the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, and terminating on the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of April, 1946.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/2.)