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Add to web feed | Local Act | 1953 No 14 |
| Date of assent | 12 November 1953 |
An Act to empower the Gisborne Harbour Board to develop, improve, and farm its Tauwhareparae endowment lands.
WHEREAS the Gisborne Harbour Board is the owner of an area of approximately forty-four thousand and fifty-four acres one rood and thirty-nine and seven-tenths perches, situated in the Gisborne Land District, being the land more particularly described in the Schedule to this Act: And whereas in order to maintain such land in good and husbandlike order and condition according to the most approved course of husbandry and of sheep and cattle farming, and to develop, farm, improve, and control such land in the most efficient manner, and to provide an area for afforestation purposes if thought fit, it is necessary to vest certain powers in the said Gisborne Harbour Board:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Gisborne Harbour Board Empowering Act 1953.
This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1950.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
Board means the Gisborne Harbour Board
Minister means the Minister of Marine.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the Harbours Act 1950 or of any other enactment, the Board is hereby authorized and empowered, in order to develop, improve, and farm the land or any part of the land referred to in the Schedule to this Act, to carry out such work on and effect such improvements, as defined in section two of the Land Act 1948, to the said land as it thinks fit, and for all or any of such purposes to purchase and sell such stock, equipment, plant, implements, and materials of any kind whatsoever, and carry on all usual farming operations as the Board deems necessary, and to employ, at such remuneration as it thinks fit, managers, supervisors, and such other persons as it finds necessary, and to delegate to any committee, whether consisting of members of the Board or otherwise, such of its powers under this section as it thinks fit.
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section four of this Act, the Board is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, to borrow and expend such moneys as are required:
Provided that any securities to be given to secure such moneys shall be limited to the security over the land described in the Schedule to this Act and the said stock, equipment, plant, and implements:
Provided also that before the Board enters into any security for such purposes as aforesaid the consent of the Minister shall be first obtained.
The Board is hereby further authorized and empowered, subject to the consent of the Minister, to sell any portion of the land described in the Schedule to this Act to the Crown for afforestation purposes at such prices as shall be agreed upon between the Board and the Minister. The proceeds of such sale may be used by the Board for any of the purposes authorized by this Act.
The Board shall keep separate accounts of its farming operations and shall annually pay the net proceeds derived from the development, improvement, and farming of the said land or any part thereof to the Harbour Fund of the Board, after deducting such moneys as the Board shall determine in the reduction of any liabilities incurred as aforesaid under the provisions of section five of this Act and after providing such further sums as are deemed necessary for the further development, farming, and improvement of the said land in the ensuing years.
FIRSTLY, all that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing 44,044 acres 2 roods 39.7 perches, more or less, being part of the Tauwhareparae Block, situated in Blocks VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV, XV, and XVI, Tutamoi Survey District, and Blocks V, VI, IX, X, XIII, and XIV, Tokomaru Survey District, and being all the land contained in plans numbered 2000 and 2782, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Gisborne, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, volume 73, folio 36, Gisborne Registry.
Secondly, all that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing 9 acres and 3 roods, more or less, being Section 2, Block IX, Tutamoi Survey District, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, volume 54, folio 218, Gisborne Registry: as the said area is shown edged brown on plan marked M D 9605 and deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington.
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