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(6) The rate payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procuration 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.

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

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

(T. 49/260/18.)

Consenting to the Raising of a Rural Housing Loan of £10,000 by the Otorohanga County Council and Prescribing the Conditions Thereof

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of March, 1949

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Otorohanga County Council is desirous of raising from the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation), a loan of ten thousand pounds (£10,000), to be known as “Rural Housing Loan, 1949” (hereinafter called the said loan), for the purpose of making advances to farmers in terms of the Rural Housing Act, 1939:

And whereas the said Council 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 by the said Council from the Corporation for the aforesaid purpose of a loan up to the amount of ten thousand pounds (£10,000), and in giving such consent doth hereby determine as follows:—

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

(2) The rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the said loan, 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 not later than six months after the date of the payment of the first instalment of the loan by the Corporation to the said Council, such interest to be computed on the daily-debtor balances in the accounts of the Corporation.

(3) No amounts payable as either interest or principal in respect of the said loan shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(4) No amount shall be payable for brokerage, underwriting, or procuration fees in respect of the raising of the said loan or any part thereof.

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

(T. 49/204/30.)

Varying the Determinations in Respect of the Dunedin City Council’s Loan of £858,000

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of March, 1949

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven (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 in New Zealand by the Dunedin City Council (hereinafter called the said local authority) of a loan of eight hundred and fifty-eight thousand pounds (£858,000), to be known as “Transport and Streets Reconstruction Loan, 1946” (hereinafter called the said loan):

And whereas the said loan has not yet been raised and it is expedient to vary certain of the determinations aforesaid in respect 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 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 vary the determinations aforesaid in respect of the said loan by prescribing as follows:—

(1) In lieu of payment to sinking fund at a rate not less than three pounds twelve shillings and sevenpence (£3 12s. 7d.), as specified in paragraph (b) of clause three of the said Order in Council, the rate of payment shall be not less than three pounds fourteen shillings and fivepence (£3 14s. 5d.)

(2) No moneys shall be borrowed under the consent given by the said Order in Council after the expiration of four (4) years from the date thereof.

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

(T. 49/254/36.)

Domain Board Appointed to Have Control of the Pukemiro Domain

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 16th day of March, 1949

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 revoke an Order in Council dated the sixteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and forty, and published in the Gazette of the seventeenth day of that month, appointing a Domain Board to control the Pukemiro Domain, and doth hereby appoint

Richard Baldwin,
David Edger Bland,
James Graham Brannigan, the elder,
William Charles Hodge,
Alfred James Hutson,
Thomas Jones,
Helen Liddle,
James Nelson, the elder, and
James Nelson, the younger

to be the Pukemiro Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Saturday, the nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, at seven o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Pukemiro Miners’ Hall, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PUKEMIRO DOMAIN

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods 13·5 perches, more or less, being Lot 56, D.P. 8585, being portion of Allotment 166, Parish of Pepepe, and being all the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 312, folio 145, Auckland Registry.

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

(L. and S. H.O. 1/673; D.O. 8/868.)

Imposing Levy on the Owners of Coal-mines Situated Within the Grey Rescue-station Levy Area

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of March, 1949

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS by section six, subsection four, of the Coal-mines Amendment Act, 1936, it is provided that every rescue-station established in accordance with section six of the said Act shall be established in respect of an area to be defined by the Minister of Mines by notice published in the Gazette:

And whereas by section six, subsection five, of the said Act it is provided that for the purpose of recouping the cost of the establishment and maintenance of any such rescue-station the Governor-General, by Order in Council, may from time to time impose levies on the owners of coal-mines situated within the area defined in respect of such rescue-station, not exceeding in respect of any mine for any year a levy computed at the rate of one penny for every ton or part of a ton of marketable coal raised from the mine during the preceding year ended on the thirty-first day of December:

And whereas the Minister of Mines, by notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, defined an area in respect of which a rescue-station might be established:

And whereas the Minister of Mines, by notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty, amended the boundaries of such area: