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Local Acts. No. 1. An Act to empower the Auckland Harbour Board to raise by way of Loan the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds. No. 2. An Act to amend the Wanganui Borough Council Street Access Empowering Act, 1.913. No. 3. An Act to amend the City of Nelson Loans Conversion and Empowering Act, 1913. No. 4. An Act conferring certain Powers on the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland (hereinafter called the Council). No. 5. An Act to confer certain Powers on the Christchureh City Council. No. 6. An Act to further amend the Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Act, 1900, and the Acts amending the same. No. 7. An Act to empower the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Gisborne to acquire the Undertaking of the Gisborne Gas Company (Limited) and to produce and supply Gas in and for the Borough of Gisborne. No. 8. An Act to vest the Invercargill Athenaeum and the Property of Same in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill. No. 9. An Act to constitute the Waimakariri Harbour District, and to confer certain Powers on the Waimakariri Harbour Board. No. 10. An Act to enable the Wairau Harbour Board to borrow the Sum of Five Thousand Pounds for the Purpose of carrying out Improvements in the Wairau Harbour. No. 11. An Act to amend the Napier High School Act, 1882. No. 12. An Act to amend the Whakatane Harbour Act, 1912. No. 13". An Act to incorporate and confer certain Powers on the Trustees of the Wellington Methodist Charitable and Educational Endowments. Private Act. No. 1. An Act to confer Powers upon the New Zealand Insurance Company (Limited). I have, &c, A. BONAR LAW Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G, M.V.O, &c.

No. 67. New Zealand, No. 881. My Lord, — Downing Street, 6th November, 1916. With reference to my despatch, Honours, of the 30th January, 1914, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of a document notifying that the Right Honourable W. F. Massey has been sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. I have, &c, A. BONAR LAW. Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G, M.V.O, &c.

Enclosure. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 24th day of October, 1916. Present : The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Right Honourable William Ferguson Massey, Prime Minister of the Dominion of New Zealand, having been appointed a member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on the 21st day of January, 1914, was, by His Majesty's command, sworn, and took his place at the Board accordingly. Almerio Fitzßot.

Approximate Cost o/ Paper- —Preparation, not givtu; printing (750 copies), £28,

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