This Act may be cited as the Local Legislation Act 1950.

Whereas by an agreement dated 16 January 1947, made between McHarrie Brothers of Hamilton, bridge builders (in this section referred to as the contractors), of the one part, and the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Matamata (in this section referred to as the Council), of the other part, the contractors agreed with the Council to execute and complete the construction of a reinforced bridge over the Oraka Stream at Okoroire:

And whereas, owing to increased costs incurred in respect of increased wages and cost of materials, and other circumstances beyond their control causing delay in completion of the work, the contractors suffered considerable loss:

And whereas the Council in the circumstances is desirous of making a payment of $609.40 to the contractors:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby empowered to pay the sum of $609.40 to the contractors by way of compensation in respect of the loss incurred by the contractors in respect of the completion of the said works.

The Amuri County Council is hereby authorised and empowered to expend moneys out of its General Account for the purpose of celebrating and commemorating the 100th anniversary of the settlement of Canterbury, and in connection with the establishment of a centennial memorial or centennial memorials, and, for any such purpose, to make grants to the body known as the Canterbury - New Zealand Centennial Association, Incorporated.

The expenditure by the Wallace County Council during the financial year ending on 31 March 1951, of the sum of $150 for the purpose of meeting expenses incurred in connection with the functions held at the opening of the new Wallace County offices, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas the Raglan County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has, pursuant to section 168 of the Counties Act 1920, constituted the Ruawaro, Whangape, and Pukekapia Drainage Districts to be districts for the purpose of the construction and maintenance of drainage works therein:

And whereas the Council desires to make and levy, in the said districts, rates for the construction and maintenance of necessary drainage works of a greater amount than the Council is authorised to make and levy:

And whereas it is desirable to authorise the Council to make and levy rates in accordance with this section:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Council is hereby authorised to make and levy in the Ruawaro, Whangape, and Pukekapia Drainage Districts, for the years ending on 31 March 1951 and on 31 March 1952, separate rates, based on the unimproved value, on the lands classified in accordance with section 173 of the Counties Act 1920, not exceeding the following amounts:

• (a) in the Ruawaro Drainage District: on the lands so classified as “A” lands, 20 cents in the dollar, on the lands so classified as “B” lands, 13 and one-third cents in the dollar, and on the lands so classified as “C” lands, 6 and two-third cents in the dollar:

• (b) in the Whangape Drainage District: on the lands so classified as “A” lands, 6 and two-third cents in the dollar, on the lands so classified as “B” lands, 3 and one-third cents in the dollar, and on the lands so classified as “C” lands, 1 and two-third cents in the dollar:

• (c) in the Pukekapia Drainage District: on the lands so classified as “A” lands, 16 and two-third cents in the dollar, on the lands so classified as “B” lands, 8 and one-third cents in the dollar, and on the lands so classified as “C” lands, 4 and one-sixth cents in the dollar.

Whereas the Raglan County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) pursuant to the provisions of section 43 of the Finance Act 1937, by special order made on 12 February 1943, and published in the Gazette of 20 May 1943 (in this section referred to as the special order), abolished the special rates set out in the special order and instead of those rates made and levied an annually recurring rate on a uniform basis over the whole of the rateable property of the County of Raglan:

And whereas the powers conferred by the said section 43 of the Finance Act 1937 may only be exercised in respect of special rates made before 1 December 1937:

And whereas certain special rates intended as security for the repayment of the following loans—namely, the Roads, Bridges, and Drainage Loan; the Workers' Dwelling Loan, 1938; the Rural Housing Loan, 1940; the Port Waikato Camping Ground Loan and the Kopua Camping Ground Loan—were all made and levied after 1 December 1937 and accordingly should not have been included in the special order:

And whereas it is desirable that the special order should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The special order is hereby validated and the said special rates shall be deemed to have been lawfully included in the special order, which shall accordingly take effect according to its tenor.

(1) [Repealed]

(2) [Repealed]

(3) Until the next election of councillors of the County of Matakaoa is held, the Minister of Internal Affairs may, on the recommendation of the Council of that county, appoint any qualified person to fill any vacancy in the office of Councillor of the county, and every person so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if he had been duly elected to fill the vacancy.

(4) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on 18 November 1950.

Whereas the district valuation roll for the district of Piako County was revised as at 31 March 1950:

And whereas certain objections to the valuations therein were made pursuant to section 14 of the Valuation of Land Act 1925 and it was apparent that considerable time would elapse before these objections could be disposed of:

And whereas the Piako County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has made and levied certain rates and proposes to make and levy certain other rates for the year commenced on 1 April 1950 and ending on 31 March 1951 at stated amounts in the dollar on the rateable values of the rateable property as appearing on the valuation roll for the district of Piako County in force immediately before 31 March 1950, and will demand and collect special rates on the same basis:

And whereas, in the preparation of the rolls of electors of the ridings of the said county and the roll of electors of the Hauraki Catchment District, for the purposes of the general elections held in November 1950, the said valuation roll in force immediately before 31 March 1950 was used in assessing the number of votes to which each elector was entitled:

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the rates made and levied, or which the Council purported to make and levy, or proposes to make and levy, in respect of the period commenced on 1 April 1950 and ending on 31 March 1951, and as to the validity of the special rates levied or to be levied in respect of that period, and as to the validity of the rolls of electors prepared for the purposes of the aforesaid elections:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The rates made and levied, or which the Council purported to make and levy or proposes to make and levy, for the said period ending on 31 March 1951, shall be valid and shall be deemed to have been or to be lawfully made and levied.

(2) The special rates payable to the Council based on the valuation roll in force immediately before 31 March 1950 and payable during the year ending on 31 March 1951 shall be valid, and when demanded by the Council shall be deemed to have been lawfully demanded.

(3) The rolls of electors of the ridings of Piako County or parts thereof used for the purposes of the general elections of Councillors of the said county and of members of the Hauraki Catchment Board held in November 1950 are hereby declared to be and to have been valid rolls of electors for the purposes of those elections.

Whereas by an Order in Council made on 6 December 1949 consent was given to the raising by the Martinborough Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) of a loan of $4,800, to be known as the Chlorination Plant Loan, 1949 (in this section referred to as the loan), to provide water works for the chlorination of the Martinborough Borough water supply:

And whereas it was necessary to purchase certain plant and materials for the purpose of carrying out the works for which the loan was authorised to be raised prior to the authorisation of the loan:

And whereas payments on account of the purchase of the said plant and materials, amounting in all to the sum of $1,257.95 and five-sixths cents, have been made from the Council's District Fund Account in anticipation of the authorisation of the loan:

And whereas it is expedient that the Council should be authorised to reimburse its District Fund Account out of the loan moneys:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to refund to its District Fund Account, out of the proceeds of the loan, the said sum of $1,257.95 and five-sixths cents.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 256 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the One Tree Hill, Ellerslie, and Mount Roskill Borough Councils are hereby authorised to contract with the Auckland City Council for such supply of water as each Borough Council may require for all purposes for a period not exceeding 21 years without the period of any such contract being previously approved by a poll of electors.

(2) While any such contract is in force the provisions of subsection (3) of section 253 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933 shall not apply with respect to the supply of water in terms of the contract.

Whereas the land described in subsection (2) was dedicated by Thomas Kennelly, late of Pukekohe, to the Corporation of the Town District of Pukekohe, for the purposes of a reserve for a site for a town hall:

And whereas the said land is no longer required for that purpose and it is desirable that authority be given for the land to be transferred and used for kindergarten purposes:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Pukekohe Borough Council, as successor to the Pukekohe Town Board, is hereby authorised and empowered to transfer, for such consideration as it may think fit, to the Pukekohe Kindergarten Association the land described in subsection (2).

(2) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:

All that piece of land in the North Auckland Land District, situated in Block XV, Drury Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Lot 21, as shown on the plan numbered 7278, deposited in the Auckland Land Registry Office, being portion of Allotment 73 of Section 1, of the Parish of Pukekohe, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 191, folio 275, Auckland Registry.

Whereas by section 3 of the Napier Borough (Marewa Area) Empowering Act 1946 (in this section referred to as the Act), the Napier Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) was authorised to raise by special order a sum not exceeding $130,000 by way of special loan or loans under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act, for the purpose of enabling the Council to carry out certain works:

And whereas the Council was by Order in Council made on 4 December 1946, pursuant to the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, authorised to raise a loan of $54,000, to be known as the Marewa Sewerage Loan, 1946 (in this section referred to as the loan), as part of the said loan of $130,000, and the loan has been fully raised and expended:

And whereas the works for which the loan was raised have been partly carried out and are in course of completion in compliance with a requisition issued by the Board of Health pursuant to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 22 of the Health Act 1920:

And whereas by reason of unavoidable delays and increased costs the loan has proved insufficient to complete the said works, and the Council has paid, in addition to the proceeds of the loan, a sum of $12,580 out of its District Fund Account in carrying out the said works and is desirous of expending further moneys in respect of the said works:

And whereas in order to refund to its District Fund Account the moneys so expended and to be expended in the completion of the said works it is desirable that the Council should be authorised to raise a special loan not exceeding $14,000:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Napier City Council is hereby authorised and empowered, by special order, to raise the sum of $14,000 by way of special loan pursuant to the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926 without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act and notwithstanding that certain of the works in respect of which the said loan is to be raised have been completed.

(2) The Napier City Council shall, out of the proceeds of the said loan of $14,000 when raised, refund to its District Fund Account all moneys advanced or paid thereout, whether before or after the passing of this Act, on account of carrying out and completing any portion of the said works.

(3) The said loan of $14,000 shall be deemed to be part of the sum of $130,000 which the Council was authorised to borrow pursuant to section 3 of the Act.

The expenditure incurred by the Napier City Council during the financial year ended on 31 March 1950 in connection with the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Borough of Napier and also in the celebration of the proclamation of the said borough as a city, amounting to the sum of $1,342.21 and two-thirds cents, and the payment of the said sum by payments amounting to the sum of $651.45 and five-sixths cents during the financial year ended on 31 March 1950, and by payments amounting to the sum of $690.75 and five-sixths cents during the financial year ending on 31 March 1951, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred and made.

Whereas the Tauranga Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has made certain payments without authority from its District Fund Account:

And whereas the Council is desirous of making a further payment from the said account:

And whereas it is desirable to make appropriate provision in that behalf:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The payments made by the Council from its District Fund Account of the sum of $100 to the late Alice Heron Maxwell, of Mission Street, in the Borough of Tauranga, during each of the years ended on 31 March 1948 and 31 March 1949, as a grant in recognition of her services in permitting and assisting the public to visit her property known as “The Elms”, and of the sum of $226 during the year ended on 31 March 1949 for the purchase of mayoral robes for the use of the Mayor of the Borough of Tauranga, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The Council is hereby authorised to pay to the Tauranga Hospital Board from its District Fund Account the sum of $100 as a contribution towards the cost of erecting a nurses' recreation hall at the Tauranga Public Hospital.

Whereas by memorandum of lease dated 14 August 1929, and registered in the Land Registry Office at Wellington as Number 18277, the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Levin leased the land described in subsection (4) to Albert Edward Standen, of Levin, builder, for a term of 21 years from 1 April 1929 with a perpetual right of renewal for further terms of 21 years:

And whereas by a memorandum of transfer registered in the Land Registry Office at Wellington as Number 244332, the said Albert Edward Standen transferred all his estate and interest in the aforesaid memorandum of lease and in the land affected thereby to Reginald James Humphrey Hollis, of Levin, railway clerk:

And whereas by a memorandum of transfer registered in the Land Registry Office at Wellington as Number 258988, the said Reginald James Humphrey Hollis transferred all his estate and interest in the aforesaid memorandum of lease and in the land affected thereby to George Webb, of Levin, farmer:

And whereas the said George Webb died on or about 28 June 1950 and probate of his will was granted to James Percy Munro Bertram, of Levin, solicitor, as executor:

And whereas before his death the said George Webb inadvertently omitted to take the necessary steps before the expiry of the said memorandum of lease to obtain a new lease of the said land:

And whereas the Levin Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is desirous of granting to the said James Percy Munro Bertram as executor of the estate of the said George Webb, deceased, a new lease of the land previously vested in the said George Webb in a form approved by the Council and providing for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of 21 years:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to grant to the said James Percy Munro Bertram, as executor of the estate of the said George Webb, deceased, a new lease of the land previously held by the said George Webb, as lessee, for a term of 21 years from the date of the expiry of the term of the said memorandum of lease registered Number 18277.

(2) Any such new lease shall be in a form approved by the Council and shall provide for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of 21 years.

(3) The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to execute all such deeds and documents and do all such other things as may be necessary for the effectual granting of the new lease to the said James Percy Munro Bertram.

(4) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:

All that parcel of land containing 1 rood, more or less, situate in the Borough of Levin, being Section 10, Block V, on the plan of the Borough of Levin, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 190, folio 41, Wellington Registry.

Whereas by memorandum of lease dated 2 December 1929, and registered in the Land Registry Office at Wellington as Number 18444, the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Levin leased the land described in subsection (4) to Mary Emily Faloon for a term of 21 years from 14 March 1929 with a perpetual right of renewal for further terms of 21 years:

And whereas the said Mary Emily Faloon inadvertently omitted to take the necessary steps before the expiry of the said memorandum of lease to obtain a new lease of the said land:

And whereas the Levin Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is desirous of granting to the said Mary Emily Faloon a new lease of the land previously vested in the said Mary Emily Faloon in a form approved by the Council and providing for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of 21 years:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to grant to the said Mary Emily Faloon a new lease of the land previously held by her as lessee for a term of 21 years from the date of the expiry of the term of the said memorandum of lease registered Number 18444.

(2) Any such new lease shall be in a form approved by the Council and shall provide for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of 21 years.

(3) The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to execute all such deeds and documents and to do all such other things as may be necessary for the effectual granting of the new lease to the said lessee.

(4) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:

All that parcel of land containing 1 rood, more or less, situated in the Borough of Levin, being Section 3, Block V, on the plan of the Township of Levin, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 190, folio 41, Wellington Registry.

Whereas pursuant to the provisions of the Urban Farm Land Rating Act 1932 a farm land roll for the Borough of Patea came into force on 1 April 1949:

And whereas by subsection (3) of section 17 of the said Act it is provided that any such farm land roll shall continue in force for a period of 5 years:

And whereas the Patea Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has deemed it expedient to revise the rateable values of urban farm land in the said borough and has caused a new farm land roll to be made which it is desired should have effect as on 1 April 1950 in substitution for the farm land roll which came into force on 1 April 1949:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Urban Farm Land Rating Act 1932, the farm land roll which was signed by 2 members of the Council on 15 August 1950 shall be the farm land roll for the Borough of Patea, and shall be deemed to have come into force on 1 April 1950 in substitution for the farm land roll for the said borough which came into force on 1 April 1949.

Whereas by Order in Council made on 15 September 1948 consent was given to the raising by the Timaru Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) of a loan of $49,000 to be known as the Timaru Streets Improvement Loan, 1944 (issue of $49,000) (in this section referred to as the proposed loan), for the purpose of street and footpath sealing and other incidental purposes:

And whereas, prior to the issue of the said Order in Council, the Council borrowed as part of the proposed loan sums amounting in all to $15,600 and paid the said sum into its District Fund Account:

And whereas, consequent on the issue of the said Order in Council, the Council paid the said sum of $15,600 from its District Fund Account to the Timaru Borough Council Streets Improvement Loan 1944 Account for the purposes of the proposed loan:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on 14 January 1948 consent was given to the raising by the Council of a loan of $60,000 to be known as the Stormwater Drainage Loan, 1946 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment set forth in the said Order in Council, one of those determinations being that no moneys should be borrowed under the consent after the expiration of 2 years from the date of the Order in Council:

And whereas the Timaru City Council as successor to the Council, borrowed as part of the loan, after the expiration of the said period of 2 years, moneys amounting in all to the sum of $8,200:

And whereas it is desirable that the aforesaid actions should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The action of the Council in borrowing sums amounting in the aggregate to $15,600 as part of the proposed loan before the making of the Order in Council dated 15 September 1948 is hereby validated and the said sum shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed, and the payment by the Council from its District Fund Account to the Timaru Borough Council Streets Improvement Loan 1944 Account of the said sum of $15,600 is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The action of the Timaru City Council in borrowing moneys amounting in all to the sum of $8,200, as part of the loan, after the expiration of the period of 2 years specified in the Order in Council dated 14 January 1948, is hereby validated and the said sum shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed.

Whereas until 31 July 1950 the Port Chalmers Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) carried on the undertaking of manufacturing and supplying gas:

And whereas pursuant to section 117 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the Council duly established and maintained a Depreciation Fund in respect of the said undertaking:

And whereas the Public Trustee is the sole Commissioner of the said Depreciation Fund and now holds the moneys comprising the said Fund:

And whereas, as from 31 July 1950, the Council has permanently terminated the said undertaking and accordingly the said Depreciation Fund is no longer required for the purpose for which it was established and maintained:

And whereas the Council is desirous of making to its former gas consumers some reimbursement in respect of expenses incurred by them by reason of the termination of the said undertaking and is desirous of applying in whole or in part the moneys now standing to the credit of the said Fund for that purpose:

And whereas some doubt has arisen as to the authority of the Council to make any such payments:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Public Trustee is hereby directed and empowered to pay to the Council the whole of the moneys in the said Depreciation Fund, and upon any such payment the Public Trustee shall not be responsible for the further application thereof.

(2) The Council is hereby empowered to pay from any such moneys to any person supplied by it with gas up to the time of the termination of the said undertaking by the Council such sums as the Council in its discretion may determine.

(3) Any moneys paid to the Council under subsection (1) and not applied in the manner authorised by subsection (2) shall be applied by the Council in partial repayment of the Port Chalmers Borough Conversion Loan, 1934.

Whereas the Tauranga Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has made application to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a loan of $127,400 to be known as the Streets Improvement Loan, 1949 (in this section referred to as the proposed loan), for the purpose of street improvements within the Borough of Tauranga:

And whereas, in anticipation of sanction being given to the raising of the proposed loan, the Council has expended out of its General Account in the purchase of plant and machinery and upon certain street works moneys amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $15,532:

And whereas the Local Government Loans Board has no authority to sanction that part of the proposed loan which relates to the purposes upon which the said sum has been expended:

And whereas it is desirable to authorise the Council to raise a loan of $15,532 for the purpose of recouping its General Account in respect of the moneys advanced thereout as aforesaid:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926 an amount not exceeding the sum of $15,532 for the purpose of refunding to its General Account all moneys advanced thereout in the purchase of the said plant and machinery and upon the said works.

Whereas the Palmerston North City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has for some years maintained an abattoir on certain land vested in the Council and described in subsection (2):

And whereas, pursuant to section 16 of the Meat Act 1939, the Council intends applying to the Minister of Agriculture for his approval to the delegation of its power to establish and maintain the said abattoir to the Palmerston North Abattoir By-Products Company, Limited, a company duly incorporated under the Companies Act 1933 and having its registered office in Palmerston North (in this section referred to as the company):

And whereas the Council desires to lease the said land or parts thereof to the company so as to enable the company to undertake the business of an abattoir and boiling down works thereon:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Council is hereby empowered to grant a lease to the company of the land described in subsection (2), or such part or parts thereof as may from time to time be required by the company, for the purposes aforesaid, at such rental, and upon and subject to such terms and conditions, including the right of renewal, as may be agreed on by the Council and the company, and in granting the said lease it shall not be necessary for the Council to comply with the provisions of paragraph (a) of section 159 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933.

(2) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:

All those parcels of land in the Wellington Land District, City of Palmerston North, containing together 20 acres 2 roods 19 perches and one-tenth of a perch, more or less, being parts of Section 361, City of Palmerston North, and being all the land comprised in certificates of title, Volume 152, folio 223, Volume 165, folio 4, Volume 301, folio 70, and Volume 305, folio 72, Wellington Registry.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, the Western Waiheke Road Board is hereby authorised and empowered to pay out of the New Area Development Loan, 1949 the sum of $332.02 and a half cents being expenses incurred in meeting engineering, legal, and advertising charges as a preliminary to the raising of the said loan.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Road Boards Act 1908 or in any other Act, the Mount Wellington Road Board is hereby authorised to pay to its Chairman an annual allowance not exceeding $400 in respect of the period commenced on 16 November 1949 and ending on 15 November 1953, and any such payment made before the passing of this Act is hereby validated.

(2) No alteration in the amount of such allowance shall take effect during the term of office of any Chairman.

(3) For the purposes of this section a person re-elected as Chairman shall be considered a new Chairman.

(4) The receipt of an allowance under this section shall not constitute or be deemed to have constituted a cause of disqualification under section 30 of the Road Boards Act 1908.

The payment made by the Auckland Harbour Board during the financial year ended on 30 September 1950 of the sum of $500 by way of special donation to the Auckland Anniversary Regatta Committee on the occasion of the Centennial Regatta held on 28 and 30 January 1950 is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Bluff Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board) was, by the Bluff Harbour Foreshore Reclamation and Leasing and Borrowing Act 1902, authorised to reclaim from the waters of Bluff Harbour certain parcels of land described in Schedule 1 of the said Act:

And whereas, without the knowledge or authority of the Board, the reclamation wall built for the purpose of reclaiming part of the land authorised by the said Act to be reclaimed was erected so that the landward side of the wall was on the boundary of the land so authorised to be reclaimed, with the result that the land described in subsection (2) was reclaimed without authority:

And whereas it is desirable that the action of the Board in reclaiming the said land in excess of that authorised should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Board shall be deemed to have been authorised by the Bluff Harbour Foreshore Reclamation and Leasing and Borrowing Act 1902 to reclaim from the waters of Bluff Harbour the land described in subsection (2), and the provisions of that Act shall apply and be deemed at all times to have applied to the said land as if a description thereof had been included in Schedule 1 of the said Act.

(2) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:

All that parcel of land adjoining Section 6, Block 23, Town of Campbelltown, containing 3 roods 17 perches and eight-tenths of a perch, more or less, and shown on a plan marked MD 9082 deposited in the office of the Minister of Marine, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

(3) This section shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1950.

Whereas by the Auckland Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act 1946 the Auckland Harbour Board was empowered to borrow the sum of $3,000,000 to be applied and expended in the construction of the harbour works and for the other purposes specified in the Schedule of the said Act:

And whereas the said Board has agreed to purchase from the Crown buildings and equipment formerly used as Government stores at Auckland, and it is expedient that the provisions of the said Act be extended to provide for the said purchase:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Schedule of the Auckland Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act 1946 is hereby amended by adding the words “Purchase of buildings situated at Halsey Street, Jellicoe Street, French Street, and Kings Drive in the City of Auckland, and plant and equipment in the said buildings”.

Whereas by the Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Act 1949, the Lyttelton Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board) is authorised to borrow any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of $160,000, and to apply the moneys so borrowed in and about the acquisition of the lands described in the Schedule of the said Act and the erection on the lands of a Waterfront Industry Building:

And whereas, the Board, instead of acquiring the said lands, now desires to erect the said building on certain land vested in the Board and to apply any moneys borrowed or to be borrowed under the authority of the said Act in the erection of the said building:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Act 1949, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Board to erect a Waterfront Industry building on the land described in subsection (2) and to apply any moneys borrowed, or to be borrowed, under the authority of the said Act in the erection of the said building on that land.

(2) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:

All that area in the Canterbury Land District containing 1 rood 25 perches and seventeen-hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Part of Reserve 1242, situated in Block IV, Halswell Survey District, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 149, folio 132, Canterbury Registry, and more particularly bounded as follows: commencing at the most northerly corner of the area, thence by a straight line bearing south-easterly 153°16′30″, a distance of 357.3 links; thence by a straight line bearing south-westerly 243°16′30″, a distance of 114 links; thence by a straight line bearing north-westerly 333°16′30″, a distance of 357.3 links, and thence by a straight line bearing north-easterly 63°16′30″, a distance of 114 links, to the commencing point.

(1) The Oamaru Harbour Board is hereby authorised to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of $24,000 by way of special loan for the purpose of carrying out dredging work in and about the harbour of the Port of Oamaru.

(2) This section shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1950.

Whereas by an Order in Council made on 27 August 1947 consent was given to the raising by the Golden Bay Electric Power Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of $14,000, to be known as the Collingwood Reticulation Loan No 2, 1946 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment set forth in the Order in Council, one of those determinations being that no moneys should be borrowed under the said consent after the expiration of 2 years from the date of the Order in Council:

And whereas the Board did not raise the loan until after the expiration of the said period of 2 years:

And whereas on 25 August 1949 the Local Government Loans Board sanctioned the borrowing by the Board of the sum of $12,000 by a loan to be known as the Reticulation Loan, 1949 (in this section referred to as the proposed loan):

And whereas the Board borrowed, for the purposes of the proposed loan, on 24 November 1949, the sum of $2,000, and on 27 February 1950, a further sum of $2,000, comprising in all the sum of $4,000:

And whereas, contrary to the provisions of section 3 of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, the consent of the Governor-General in Council, in accordance with sections 10 and 11 of that Act, to the raising of the proposed loan was not first obtained:

And whereas it is desirable that the actions of the Board should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The action of the Board in raising the loan after the expiration of the period of 2 years specified in the said Order in Council is hereby validated and the said moneys shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed.

(2) The action of the Board in borrowing the sum of $4,000 without the prior consent of the Governor-General in Council is hereby validated, and the said moneys shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed, and the Board is hereby authorised to issue securities in respect thereof dating from the uplifting by the Board of the first instalment of the said moneys.

Whereas the Otago Central Electric Power Board (in this section referred to as the Board) is desirous of making application to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a loan of the sum of $150,000 for the purpose of constructing the Fraser River Power Station:

And whereas the transformer for connection to the existing line was urgently required and was ordered and delivered prior to sanction being given to the raising of the said loan:

And whereas, in anticipation of sanction being given to the raising of the said loan, the Board paid the cost of the said transformer, amounting to the sum of $10,000, out of its Power Fund Account:

And whereas the Local Government Loans Board has no authority to sanction that part of the loan relating to the cost of the said transformer:

And whereas it is desirable to authorise the Board to raise a loan amounting to the sum of $10,000 for the purpose of refunding to its Power Fund Account such moneys as have been advanced thereout as aforesaid:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Board is hereby authorised to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of $10,000 by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926 for the purpose of refunding to its Power Fund Account all moneys advanced thereout towards the purchase and installation of the said transformer.

(2) The Board is hereby authorised out of the proceeds of the said special loan, when raised, to refund to its Power Fund Account all moneys advanced thereout for the purposes for which the said special loan is to be raised.

Whereas the Waimatuku River District comprises lands situate in both the County of Southland and the County of Wallace:

And whereas, pursuant to section 8 of the Valuation of Land Act 1925, the district valuation roll for the County of Wallace has been revised by the Valuer-General as at 31 March 1950, but the district valuation roll for the County of Southland has not as yet been so revised:

And whereas the Waimatuku River Board (in this section referred to as the Board) has, in respect of certain lands within its district, being those lands situate within the County of Wallace, levied its rates for the year ending on 31 March 1951, in accordance with the values of the said lands which appeared on the valuation roll of the County of Wallace prior to the revision of the said roll as aforesaid:

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said rates and it is desirable that the Board should be empowered to levy its rates on such of the lands within the County of Wallace as are within the district of the Board in the manner aforesaid until the valuation roll for the County of Southland is likewise revised:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The rates levied by the Board for the year ending on 31 March 1951 shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and levied, and shall not be invalidated by reason of the said rates having been levied on certain lands within its district, being lands situate within the County of Wallace, in accordance with the values of the said lands appearing on the valuation roll for the County of Wallace prior to the revision of that roll as at 31 March 1950.

(2) Until the valuation roll now in force for the County of Southland is revised pursuant to section 8 of the Valuation of Land Act 1925, the Board may levy its rates upon the lands mentioned in subsection (1) in accordance with the values of the said lands which appeared on the valuation roll for the County of Wallace immediately prior to the revision of that roll as at 31 March 1950.

Whereas the North Shore Fire Board (in this section referred to as the Board) and the Crown entered into 2 agreements both dated 10 October 1949, whereby the Board agreed to undertake the protection from fire of properties in or adjacent to the North Shore Fire District owned by the Crown and known as the Devonport Naval Base and the Kauri Point Naval Armament Depot, upon the terms and conditions therein set out:

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said agreements and it is desirable to validate the said agreements:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Notwithstanding anything in the Fire Services Act 1949, or in any other Act, the Board shall be deemed to have been at all times authorised and empowered to enter into the said agreements, which are hereby validated and shall for all purposes have effect according to their tenor.

The expenditure by the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board during the financial year ended on 31 March 1950, of the sum of $83.60 for the purpose of meeting expenses incurred in connection with a social function held in honour of 4 employees who were retiring, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas by Order in Council made on 3 April 1946 consent was given to the raising by the Dannevirke Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of $6,000, to be known as the Boiler House Loan, 1945 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to certain terms and conditions:

And whereas one of the said terms and conditions was that no moneys should be borrowed after the expiration of 2 years from the date of the said Order in Council:

And whereas the loan was raised by the Board at a date subsequent to the expiration of the said period of 2 years:

And whereas it is expedient that the action of the Board in raising the loan should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The action of the Board in raising the loan after the expiration of the period specified by the said Order in Council is hereby validated, the moneys received by the Board in respect thereof shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed, and the debentures issued in respect thereof shall be deemed to have been lawfully executed and issued by the Board and shall have full force and effect according to their tenor.

Whereas by Proclamation published in the Gazette of 25 January 1950 Allotment Number 216 of the Town of Cambridge East (in this section referred to as the said land) which was vested in the Waikato Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) as an endowment in aid of the Board's funds, was taken for a public work by the Minister of Works:

And whereas the compensation agreed to be paid for the taking of the said land, amounting to the sum of $576, was paid into the Public Trust Office and is now held by the Public Trustee under section 92 of the Public Works Act 1928:

And whereas the Board is unable to purchase any land suitable for an endowment:

And whereas the Board is indebted to the Public Trustee in the sum of approximately $16,030.31 and two-thirds cents:

And whereas it is desirable that the said sum of $576 should be applied in reduction of the moneys owing by the Board to the Public Trustee:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Public Trustee is hereby authorised and directed to apply the said sum of $576, or such other sum as may be in the hands of the Public Trustee as compensation for the taking of the said land, in reduction of the moneys owing by the Board to the Public Trustee.

Whereas the Wellington Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) maintains a reservoir or storage tank for water on premises belonging to the Board and comprising the institution under the control of the Board known as the Macarthy Home, situated at Belmont, near Wellington:

And whereas the Hutt County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has applied to the Board to supply water to the Council from the said reservoir or storage tank:

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the powers of the Board and of the Council to enter into an agreement for the supply of water as aforesaid:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Board and the Council are hereby authorised to enter into an agreement for the supply of water to the Council from the said reservoir or storage tank maintained by the Board upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon between the Board and the Council.

Whereas on 16 February 1931 the Governor-General in Council, under the provisions of section 171 of the Harbours Act 1923, approved plans of bridges and a roadway which the Auckland City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) proposed to construct on and over certain tidal lands forming the bed of the Waitemata Harbour, near Meola and Motions Creeks:

And whereas the Council commenced the construction of the said bridges and roadway and the same are almost completed:

And whereas no Order in Council under the provisions of section 168 of the said Act has ever been made:

And whereas, in the course of the construction of the said bridges and roadway, other areas of tidal lands have been cut off from the sea, and it is the intention of the Council to reclaim those other areas from the waters of the said harbour in the course of the work of the said construction:

And whereas all the said tidal lands affected by the work of the said construction are vested in the Auckland Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board) and the Board is desirous of transferring to the Council without consideration certain of the said lands and also of transferring to His Majesty the King, without consideration, the remainder of the said lands:

And whereas it is expedient to validate the reclamation heretofore carried out by the Council and to empower the Council to carry out further reclamations and also to empower the Board to transfer certain of the said lands to the Council and the remainder of the said lands to His Majesty the King:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 175 and 178 of the Harbours Act 1950, the reclamation heretofore carried out by the Council within all those areas containing together 2 acres 2 roods 35 perches, more or less, being land below mean high-water mark, Auckland, delineated on a plan marked MD 9135, deposited in the Head Office of the Marine Department, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow (Auckland Survey Office plan numbered 36395), is hereby validated in all respects as though the provisions of those sections had been duly complied with and the necessary authority and sanction had been duly given prior to the commencement of the said construction work and reclamation of the said land.

(2) The Council is hereby empowered to reclaim from the sea all that area containing 2 perches, more or less, being land below mean high-water mark, Auckland, delineated on the said plan marked MD 9135, and thereon coloured sepia.

(3) The Council is hereby empowered to reclaim from the sea all those areas containing together 1 acre 3 perches, more or less, being land below mean high-water mark, Auckland, delineated on the said plan marked MD 9135, and thereon coloured blue.

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act the Board is hereby empowered to transfer without consideration, firstly, the lands referred to in subsection (1) and in subsection (2) to the Corporation of the City of Auckland, and, secondly, the lands referred to in subsection (3) to His Majesty the King.

Whereas certain land from Strathallan Street in the City of Timaru to the southern approach to Caroline Bay is vested partly in the Timaru Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board), and partly in His Majesty the King and is used for the purpose of a roadway:

And whereas the Board intends to undertake certain works upon the said land for the purpose of effecting improvements in the said roadway:

And whereas the Board has requested the Timaru City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) to contribute towards the cost of the improvements in the said roadway:

And whereas the Council is desirous of contributing towards the cost of the said improvements but has no power so to do:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to contribute towards the cost of effecting improvements in the said roadway and to pay to the Board such sum or sums as the Council shall think fit in and towards the improvements in the said roadway.

Whereas by Proclamation dated 5 May 1948, and published in the Gazette of 13 May 1948, the lands firstly and secondly described in subsection (3), and other lands, were taken for a maternity home and vested in the Otago Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board):

And whereas it is desirable that the land firstly described in subsection (3) should be vested in the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Incorporated) as a site for Plunket rooms, and that the land secondly described in subsection (3) should be vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Dunedin for the purpose of a street:

And whereas the Board has no power to dispose of the said lands other than by way of sale:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The vesting of the lands firstly and secondly described in subsection (3) in the Board is hereby cancelled and the said land firstly described in the said subsection is hereby vested in the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Incorporated) for an estate in fee simple as a site for Plunket rooms, and the land secondly described in subsection (3) is hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Dunedin for an estate in fee simple for the purpose of a street.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Otago is hereby authorised and directed to make such entries in the register books, to issue such certificates of title, and to do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(3) The lands to which this section relates are more particularly described as follows:

Firstly, all that piece of land in the City of Dunedin, Township of Linden, containing by admeasurement 10 perches and ninety-five hundredths of a perch, more or less, being part of Lot 17, Deeds Plan 85, being part Section 2, Block III, Upper Kaikorai Survey District, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 329, folio 230, Otago Registry.

Secondly, all that piece of land in the City of Dunedin, Township of Linden, containing by admeasurement eighty-six hundredths of a perch, more or less, being part of the said Lot 17, Deeds Plan 85, being part Section 2, Block III, Upper Kaikorai Survey District, and being part of the land comprised and described in the said certificate of title, Volume 329, folio 230, Otago Registry.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 11410, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Dunedin, and thereon coloured red and blue respectively.

The payment made by the Ohai Railway Board during the year ended on 31 March 1950 of the sum of $1,000 to Jessie Bryce Rodger, of Invercargill, widow of Alexander Wyllie Rodger, deceased, the late clerk of the said Board, by way of compassionate allowance and in recognition of the services rendered by the said Alexander Wyllie Rodger to the said Board, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas by Order in Council made on 14 September 1949 the boundaries of the Hurunui Rabbit District were altered and redefined:

And whereas by Orders in Council made on 14 September 1949 the Pahau, Amuri, Cheviot, Culverden, Hanmer, and Waitohi Rabbit Districts were constituted and the boundaries of the areas respectively comprised therein were defined and declared rabbit districts:

And whereas the said areas comprised areas excluded from the Hurunui Rabbit District by the first recited Order in Council:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on 25 January 1950 the boundaries of the Motunau Rabbit District were altered and redefined to include an area which, prior to 14 September 1949, formed part of the Hurunui Rabbit District:

And whereas the Hurunui Rabbit Board, for the purpose of assisting the other Rabbit Boards hereinbefore mentioned, is desirous of paying out of its funds certain sums to those Boards, and it is desirable that the expenditure should be authorised:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Hurunui Rabbit Board is hereby authorised and empowered to pay out of its funds to the Pahau Rabbit Board the sum of $764, to the Amuri Rabbit Board the sum of $890, to the Cheviot Rabbit Board the sum of $2,044, to the Culverden Rabbit Board the sum of $966, to the Hanmer Rabbit Board the sum of $304, to the Waitohi Rabbit Board the sum of $944, and to the Motunau Rabbit Board the sum of $236.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act 1943, or in any other Act, the provisions of the Local Authorities (Members' Contracts) Act 1934 shall be deemed not to have applied to any contracts made after 31 March 1948 between the Ohai Railway Board and the Linton Coal Company, Limited, for the supply of coal for use by the Board, and the said contracts are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Omarama Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) expended the sum of $9,839.90 and five-sixths cents out of its General Account in acquiring a piece of land, erecting dwellings thereon, and effecting improvements thereto (in this section referred to as the said works) for the use of employees of the Board:

And whereas, in order that the Board may reimburse its General Account in respect of the moneys expended in carrying out the said works, it is expedient that the Board be empowered to raise by way of special loan a sum not exceeding $10,000:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Board is hereby authorised and empowered to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by resolution, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act, an amount not exceeding the sum of $10,000 for the purpose of refunding to its General Account all moneys used for the purpose of the said works.

(2) The Board is hereby authorised out of the proceeds of the said loan when raised to refund to its General Account such moneys as may have been advanced thereout for the purposes for which the said loan is to be raised.

Notwithstanding anything in section 7 of the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Act 1932–33, the Christchurch Tramway Board may, out of its General Account, expend a sum not exceeding $2,000 in placing before the ratepayers and the public, by advertisement, circular, or any other means, its views on a proposal to raise a special loan, known as the Modernization Loan, 1950, which said proposal is to be submitted to a poll of the ratepayers of the Christchurch Tramway District.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 40 of the Christchurch Tramway District Act 1920, the Christchurch Tramway Board may, in respect of the year ending on 31 March 1952, make and levy, pursuant to that section, a general rate not exceeding two and a half cents in the dollar on the annual value of rateable property, or five thirty-seconds of a cent in the dollar on the capital value of rateable property.