Mar. 11] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 269

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

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING 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 local authorities shall, before raising the said respective loans or any parts thereof, make provision for the repayment thereof by establishing sinking funds under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, or under such other statutory enactment as may be applicable in any respective case, and shall thereafter make payments to such sinking funds at intervals of not more than one year, at a rate or rates per centum which shall be not less than the respective rates stated in the sixth column of the said Schedule, such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said respective loans for the time being so borrowed and not repaid, the first such payment in each respective case to be made not later than one year after the first day from which interest to the lender or lenders is computed on any loan or part thereof so raised.

(4) No amount payable as either interest or sinking fund in respect of the said loans 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) The payment of interest and repayment of principal in respect of the said loans shall be made in New Zealand.

(7) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

SCHEDULE

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

(T. 40/416/6.)

Consenting to the Raising of Portion (£2,000) of the Manukau County Council's Loan of £55,400 and prescribing the Conditions thereof

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one (hereinafter called the said Order in Council), consent was given to the raising by the Manukau County Council (hereinafter called the said local authority) of the sum of fifty-five thousand four hundred pounds (£55,400) by a loan to be known as “Mangere Special Area Water-supply Loan, 1930” (hereinafter called the said loan), of which the amount of two thousand nine hundred pounds (£2,900) 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 local 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 pounds (£2,000) (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 purposes 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 not exceed 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 five shillings (£3 5s.) 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 eight pounds fourteen shillings and sixpence (£8 14s. 6d.), such payments to be made in respect of every part of the said sum for the time being so raised 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 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-money.

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

(T. 49/111/6.)

Consenting to the Raising of the Balance (£30,000) of a Loan of £100,000 by the Hutt Valley Electric-power Board and prescribing the Conditions thereof

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Hutt Valley Electric-power Board (hereinafter called the said local authority), being desirous of raising a loan of one hundred thousand pounds (£100,000), to be known as “No. 5 Loan, 1945” (hereinafter called the said loan), for the purpose of further reticulating the Board's district, has complied with the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926 (hereinafter called the said Act):