Whereas the Manukau County Council (hereinafter called the said Council), in pursuance of a special order passed on the sixteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, in terms of paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, has raised a special loan of two thousand one hundred dollars for the purpose of purchasing land, fencing, surveying, legalization, draining, and constructing roads and footpaths to give access from the Great South Road and the Valley Road to the proposed Tironui Railway-station in the Papakura Riding of the said county: And whereas the said Council had agreed and intended out of the said loan-moneys to pay to the respective owners the sum of two hundred dollars an acre for all lands required for the site of the said proposed Tironui Railway-station and the roadway giving access thereto: And whereas such lands so required have been taken by the Crown for railway purposes under the provisions of the Public Works Act 1908, and doubts have arisen as to the powers of the said Council to pay therefor as agreed: And whereas the sum of forty-six dollars and seventy cents expenses of survey in connection with the said site and access have been incurred, and doubts have arisen as to the powers of the Council to pay the same out of the said loan-moneys: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said Council is hereby authorized and empowered out of the said loan-moneys to pay to the respective owners or other the persons equitably entitled thereto the sum of two hundred dollars an acre for all lands taken or required to be taken in connection with the site of the Tironui Railway-station and the roadway giving access thereto, and also out of the said loan-moneys to pay the sum of forty-six dollars and seventy cents in respect of preliminary survey charges incurred in connection therewith.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, or in any Order in Council or in any title issued to the Corporation of the County of Matamata with respect to the gravel reserves being respectively Lot 1 of Section 3, Block II, Patetere North Survey District (Mangapouri Settlement), having an area of seven acres one rood, more or less, and that part of Allotment 249, Parish of Hautapu, comprised in certificate of title, Volume 91, folio 163, Auckland Registry, now called Section 11, Block IX, Cambridge Survey District, shown on a plan lodged in the Land Transfer Office at Auckland under Number 4865A, and having an area of four acres, more or less, the said Corporation of the County of Matamata shall have and may exercise with respect to each of such reserves or any part thereof all the powers conferred on County Councils by section one hundred and fifty-two of the Counties Act 1920.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to make such endorsements or memorials on Crown grants or certificates of title as may be rendered necessary by the provisions of this section.

Whereas the Uawa County Council was, by a poll taken on the twenty-sixth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1913, duly authorized by the ratepayers of the said county to raise a loan of two hundred and eight thousand nine hundred and ten dollars for the purposes set out in the proposals submitted to the ratepayers: And whereas by the said proposals the sum of thirty-two dollars was allocated for the renewal and erection of bridges and the sum of sixteen thousand six hundred dollars was allocated for the purchase of roadmaking machinery and motor-lorries: And whereas the said Council expended on the renewal and erection of bridges the sum of five hundred and fifty-two dollars, seventy-seven and a half cents in excess of the amount so authorized by the said proposals for those purposes: And whereas the said Council expended on the purchase of roadmaking machinery and motor-lorries the sum of eighteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars, seventy-nine and one sixth cents in excess of the amount so authorized by the said proposals for those purposes: And whereas the expenditure of the said amount for the purchase of roadmaking machinery and motor-lorries was necessary for the purpose of enabling the said Council to carry out expeditiously and economically the formation, metalling, and tar-sealing of roads authorized by the said proposals: And whereas the expenditure of the said amounts of five hundred and fifty-two dollars, seventy-seven and a half cents and eighteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars, seventy-nine and one sixth cents respectively in excess of the amounts authorized by the said proposals is deemed to be unlawful: And whereas it is desired to validate such expenditure: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said payments made by the said Council out of the said loan-moneys for the renewal and erection of bridges and for the purchase of roadmaking machinery and motor-lorries in excess of the amounts authorized by the said loan proposals to be raised for these purposes are hereby validated.

(1) The expenditure by the Castlepoint County Council in the erection of a new overseer's cottage, and the supplying of such cottage with the requisite fittings and conveniences, of any moneys borrowed as hereinbefore recited for the purpose of altering, enlarging, repairing, and improving existing workers' dwellings is hereby validated.

(2) The said Council is hereby empowered to refund to its County Fund Account out of the proceeds of the said loan an amount not exceeding one thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars, seventy-two and a half cents in respect of moneys advanced from that account for the erection of such overseer's cottage.

Whereas the Weber County Council, being duly authorized by a poll of ratepayers taken on the twenty-seventh day of July, nineteen hundred and fifteen, raised a special loan of twenty thousand dollars under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1913, for the carrying-out of certain works in various ridings in the Weber County: And whereas in the loan proposal as approved by the ratepayers the sum of nine hundred and sixty dollars was allocated for expenditure on the Te Awaputahi Bridle-track in the Wimbledon Riding of the said county: And whereas work on the said track was abandoned after a sum of sixty dollars had been expended: And whereas it is desired to expend the balance of the said sum of nine hundred and sixty dollars on Birch Road in the said riding: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Weber County Council, out of the loan-moneys raised for the Te Awaputahi Bridle-track, to expend the sum of nine hundred dollars, being the balance aforesaid, on Birch Road in the Wimbledon Riding of the County of Weber.

Whereas the Oroua County Council, on the twenty-second day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, duly raised, under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, a loan of twenty thousand dollars from the Public Trustee for highway-construction work in the County of Oroua: And whereas the total amount so raised is not now required for the said work, and the said Council is desirous of diverting and applying ten thousand dollars of such loan for the purposes hereinafter mentioned: And whereas it is expedient so to authorize the said Council: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Oroua County Council is hereby authorized to divert and apply ten thousand dollars of the said loan of twenty thousand dollars raised from the Public Trustee as hereinbefore mentioned towards the construction or reconstruction of bridges in the said county other than bridges the cost of construction or reconstruction of which is properly a charge against any riding account.

(1) The Selwyn County Council and the Ellesmere County Council are hereby empowered to raise a joint special loan not exceeding two thousand dollars for the purpose of acquiring the piece of land described in subsection eight hereof (hereinafter referred to as the said piece of land) and of erecting thereon a public hall and library for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the parts of the said counties described in subsection seven hereof.

(2) The joint special loan hereby authorized shall be raised in the same manner as a joint special loan authorized under Part 2 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, and the provisions of that Part shall apply accordingly. For the purposes of the said Part 2 the Selwyn County Council shall be deemed to be the principal local authority, but in lieu of distributing the principal moneys of the loan in the manner provided by paragraph (h) of section sixty-four of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, the Selwyn County Council shall itself apply them to the purposes for which the joint special loan is authorized to be raised.

(3) The said piece of land when purchased shall vest in the Corporation of the County of Selwyn as a site for a public hall and library upon trust for the benefit and use of the inhabitants of the said parts of the counties of Selwyn and Ellesmere. The District Land Registrar of the Land Registration District of Canterbury shall note such trust upon the certificate of title for the said piece of land and upon the appropriate folium of the register.

(4) The Selwyn County Council is hereby empowered to remove and sell, by public auction or tender, the buildings now being on the said Reserve Number 4103, and to apply and expend the net proceeds of any such sale in or towards the public hall and library to be erected on the said piece of land.

(5) The said Reserve Number 4103 shall remain vested in the Selwyn County Council as a site for a public hall and library, and shall be used in conjunction with the said piece of land for the purposes of the public hall and library to be erected thereon and for the convenience of the inhabitants of the said parts of the said counties respectively frequenting the same.

(6) Any moneys received by the Selwyn County Council from the Dunsandel Public Library Board may be applied by that Council in or towards the erection of the public hall and library on the said piece of land.

(7) The parts of the Selwyn and Ellesmere Counties respectively to which this section relates are particularly described as follows:—

All that area of land in the Canterbury Land District, being part of the Ellesmere County, situate in the Selwyn and Leeston Survey Districts (as shown coloured green on plan marked IA 19/174/31, and deposited in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington), the boundaries of which are as follows: commencing at the point of intersection of the centre-line of the Main South Railway with the centre-line of the River Selwyn; thence south-easterly along the centre-line of the River Selwyn to a point in line with the eastern boundary of RS 3780; thence southerly along the said line to the north-eastern corner of RS 3780; thence southerly along the eastern boundaries of RS 3780, 9741, 12923, to the Selwyn and Lake Road; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundaries of RS 4494, 5757, to the River Irwell; thence north-westerly along the River Irwell to the south-eastern boundary of RS 34423; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundary of RS 34423 to the Boundary Creek Road; thence westerly along Boundary Creek Road to Watson's Road; thence south-westerly along Watson's Road to the southern boundary of RS 4292; thence westerly along the south-western boundaries of RS 4292, 3657; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundaries of RS 3117, 3119, 6258, and Reserve 715 to the Dunsandel and Brookside Road; thence south-easterly along the Dunsandel and Brookside Road to Sanderson's Road; thence south-westerly along Sanderson's Road to the south-western boundary of RS 9844, 9979; thence north-westerly along the south-western boundary of RS 9844, 9979, to the south-eastern boundary of RS 9695; thence along the south-east boundary of RS 9695 to the Lower Killinchy Road; thence north-west along the Lower Killinchy Road to the Main Dunsandel Road; thence southerly along the Main Dunsandel Road to the north-western boundary of RS 14026; thence south-westerly along the north-western boundary of RS 14026; thence south-easterly along the south-western boundaries of RS 14026, 14025; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundary of RS 14319 to the road forming the south-western boundary of RS 14319; thence southerly along the said road to the south-eastern boundary of RS 15367; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundary of RS 15367 to the road forming the south-western boundary of RS 15367; thence north-westerly along the said road to the southern boundary of RS 26040; thence westerly along the southern boundary of RS 26040 to the road forming the western boundary of RS 26040; thence southerly along the said road to the road forming the south-western boundary of RS 33516; thence north-westerly along the said road to the centre-line of the Main South Railway; thence north-easterly along the centre-line of the Main South Railway to the commencing-point. Also all that area of land in the Canterbury Land District, being part of the Selwyn County, situate in the Hawkins, Selwyn, and Leeston Survey Districts (as shown coloured pink on plan marked IA 19/174/31, and deposited in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington), the boundaries of which are as follows: commencing at a point on the centre-line of the River Selwyn, the said point being in line with the north-western boundary of RS 4249; thence to the north-western corner of RS 4249; thence south-westerly along the north-western boundary of the said section to the Hororata River; thence south-easterly along the Hororata River to its intersection with Sheat's Road; thence south-westerly along Sheat's Road to the Dunsandel Road; thence easterly along the Dunsandel Road to its intersection with the Two-chain Road; thence southerly along the Two-chain Road to its intersection with Wright's Road; thence south-easterly along Wright's Road to its intersection with the Main South Road; thence south-westerly along the Main South Road to its intersection with a road forming the south-western boundary of Reserve 2287 and RS 9281; thence south-easterly along the said road to the centre-line of the Main South Railway; thence north-easterly along the centre-line of the Main South Railway to the centre-line of the River Selwyn; thence north - westerly along the centre-line of the River Selwyn to the commencing-point.

(8) The piece of land authorized to be purchased as aforesaid is particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land situated in Block VIII of the Selwyn Survey District having frontage on Station and Dunsandel Roads, containing by admeasurement two roods and two-fifths of a perch, more or less, and being the lots numbered 1, 2, and 3 on a plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Christchurch as Number 7792, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 381, folio 97.

The Ashburton County Council is hereby authorized to expend out of its ordinary funds an amount not exceeding two hundred and forty dollars on the preparation and publication of a commemorative booklet in connection with the jubilee of the County of Ashburton.

(1) The authority conferred on the Minister of Internal Affairs by subsection five of section three of the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, to fix the limits of the power to borrow by way of bank overdraft in the case of local authorities constituted after the commencement of that Act is hereby extended so as to enable that Minister to fix the limits of the power of the Peninsula County Council to borrow by way of bank overdraft until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

(2) In the case of the said County Council the limits imposed by subsection two of the aforesaid section three shall not apply with respect to any year prior to the year beginning on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.

(1) The Maniototo County Council is hereby authorized to raise, under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, but by special order and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, a special loan of one thousand and forty dollars, and may pay the proceeds of such loan to its General Account for the purpose of recouping to that account the amount paid for the drainage-works in the area referred to in the next succeeding subsection.

(2) The said Council is hereby authorized to pledge as security for the said loan a special rate over that portion of the County of Maniototo comprising all that area contained in Block XI, and Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, Block X. Ranfurly Township, in the Riding of Mount Ida.

The expenditure by the County Councils of the counties of Maniototo, Taieri, Tuapeka, and Vincent during the year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, of the sums of one hundred and thirty dollars, one hundred and five dollars, thirty-seven pounds, ninety-seven and a half cents, and one hundred and fifty-six dollars, eighty-five cents respectively in respect of the celebration of the jubilee of the said counties is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Whangarei Borough Council, by special resolution dated the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, authorized the raising of a loan of eight thousand dollars for the purpose of providing for the relief of unemployment by the carrying-out of road-construction works: And whereas it is desirable to vary the purposes for which the said loan may be expended: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Whangarei Borough Council to expend any portion of the said loan of eight thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing footpaths and culverts and making alterations to bridge-approaches.

The payment by the Auckland City Council of the sum of twelve thousand dollars out of the General Account in the District Fund of the Council, being the cost of a full-page advertisement in the supplement to the Times newspaper published in London simultaneously with the arrival in New Zealand of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Devonport Borough Council, on behalf of the Corporation of the said borough, to accept a transfer of the land hereinbefore described, to be held as a public reserve as aforesaid.

(2) No fence shall at any time hereafter during the lives of the donors, or the survivor of them, be erected upon the said land which might in any way obstruct the view from the property of the donors immediately opposite the said Lots 87 and 88, being parts of Lots 122 and 123 on deposited plan Number 2820, of Allotment 31, Section 2, Parish of Takapuna, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 433, folio 264.

(1) The Hamilton Borough Council is hereby authorized and empowered to pay to the Waikato Hospital Board the sum of two thousand dollars out of the District Fund of the Borough of Hamilton; and such sum of two thousand dollars shall be expended by the said Board in or towards establishing and maintaining a maternity home on the land vested in it, being part of Allotment 25 of the Parish of Te Rapa.

(2) Section one hundred and one of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1925, is hereby repealed.

(1) The said memorandum of lease of the fourth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, from the Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited, to the Corporation of the City of Wanganui herein referred to, and every clause and article therein contained, is hereby validated and confirmed.

(2) The Corporation may assign, underlet, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the said lease of the fourth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and the lands therein described at such price or rent and upon such terms and conditions as the Council of the Corporation shall by resolution determine without taking any of the steps required by section one hundred and fifty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920.

(1) The said memorandum of lease of the fourth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, the said deed of covenant of the fourth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and the said memorandum of sublease of the fourth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and every clause and article therein contained are hereby validated and confirmed.

(2) The Corporation may, without taking the steps required by section one hundred and fifty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, grant a lease or leases of the balance of the said lands in the said memorandum of lease of the fourth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, described for such term, at such rent, and upon such terms and conditions as the Council of the Corporation may by resolution determine.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Corporation to transfer and assure by way of gift the parcel of land firstly hereinbefore described to the Governors of the Palmerston North High School for educational purposes, and to transfer and assure by way of gift or to lease for any number of years at a nominal rental the parcel of land secondly hereinbefore described to the society for the purposes of the society.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Corporation to impose and include in any transfer of the land secondly described such terms and conditions as it shall deem reasonable, and particularly the following:—

• (a) That if the society shall at any time cease to carry on in Palmerston North the work for which it was founded and incorporated, then the said land shall, with all buildings and improvements thereon, be revested in the Corporation, and the society, its successors or assigns, shall execute all necessary documents for effecting such revesting.

• (b) The society shall be entitled to raise money on first mortgage of the land sufficient to enable it to erect a building on the said land for the purposes of the society, and shall apply all moneys so raised for such purpose only.

• (c) The society shall repay within seven years all moneys so raised as aforesaid, and shall not be entitled to again mortgage, charge, or encumber the said land.

• (d) If the society shall at any time hereafter make default under the said first mortgage, and the mortgage shall become entitled to exercise the power of sale in such mortgage, the society shall, if called upon by the Corporation, transfer the said piece of land to the Corporation subject to the said mortgage.

(3) Any lease of the piece of land secondly described shall contain such covenants, conditions, and agreements as the Corporation thinks fit.

(1) The action of the Council in authorizing the said celebrations and incurring the said liabilities is hereby validated.

(2) The Council is hereby authorized to apply the said public subscriptions and also to pay out of the General Account of the District Fund of the said borough a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars for the purpose of satisfying such liabilities.

Whereas the sum of one thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, seventy-seven and a half cents was misappropriated in the year nineteen hundred and twenty by an executive officer of the Masterton Borough Council (employed in the dual capacity of Town Clerk and Borough Engineer) from drainage loan-moneys belonging to the Corporation of the Borough of Masterton: And whereas such sum represented an administrative loss and as such should be debited to the District Fund with consequent refund to the Loan Account: And whereas the drainage-works for which the said loan was raised have been completed, and the only effect of making such a refund as aforesaid would be to transfer the sum of one thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, seventy-seven and a half cents to the sinking fund of the said loan: And whereas it is deemed expedient to empower the Masterton Borough Council to write off the said sum of one thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, seventy-seven and a half cents: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Masterton Borough Council is hereby empowered to write off the said sum of one thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, seventy-seven and a half cents.

Whereas by Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and published in the Gazette of the eighth day of April then instant, the land described in the schedule to the said Order in Council became vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Carterton in trust as a site for a public cemetery: And whereas the prior trustees of the said land were indebted to the Bank of New Zealand for the sum of one hundred and thirty-two dollars, fifty-one and two thirds cents, and it is desirable to make provision for the said liability to be extinguished by the Carterton Borough Council: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Carterton Borough Council is hereby authorized to pay out of its General Account the said sum of one hundred and thirty-two dollars, fifty-one and two thirds cents to the Bank of New Zealand.

(1) The expenditure by the Lower Hutt Borough Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, of two several sums being, firstly, the sum of eighty-one dollars, ninety and five sixths cents expended in respect of the maintenance and repair of and purchase of materials for a billiard-table used in the recreation-room of the Lower Hutt Fire Brigade Station, and, secondly, the sum of sixty-eight dollars, forty-five cents expended in respect of the maintenance of a portion of the disused Methodist Cemetery adjoining Bridge Street in the Borough of Lower Hutt, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The said Council may in any year expend such sums as it thinks fit in maintaining the said cemetery.

Whereas the Nelson City Council was in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four authorized by a poll of ratepayers to raise a special loan of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting baths: And whereas in preparing the debentures for issue in connection with the said loan an error was inadvertently made whereby the total sum borrowed amounted to seventeen thousand six hundred dollars, being one hundred dollars in excess of the authorized amount: And whereas it is expedient that the borrowing of the said excess amount of one hundred dollars should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or in any other Act, the borrowing by the Nelson City Council of the said excess sum of one hundred dollars and the payment of interest thereon is hereby validated and the said sum of one hundred dollars is hereby declared to have been lawfully borrowed.

The expenditure by the Westport Borough Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, of the sum of one hundred and thirty-seven dollars, fifteen and five sixths cents in connection with the Westport Borough jubilee celebrations is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas Ernest Neil Dodge, an infant now of the age of three years, met with an accident on the seventeenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, whereby through a water-cart the property of the Corporation of the City of Christchurch running over him it became necessary to amputate one of his legs: And whereas the Council of the City of Christchurch, without admitting any liability in respect of such accident, is desirous of contributing a sum of money to be paid out of the District Fund and to be expended for the benefit of the said Ernest Neil Dodge: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Christchurch City Council is hereby authorized to pay out of its District Fund the sum of six hundred dollars to trustees to be nominated by resolution of the said Council, upon such trusts for the benefit of the said Ernest Neil Dodge as the said trustees, with the approval of the said City Council, by deed declare, and such payment shall be in satisfaction and extinction of the rights of action (if any) of or on behalf of the said Ernest Neil Dodge against the said Council in respect of such accident.

Whereas the “unauthorized expenditure” by the Dunedin City Council for the year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, amounted to one thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars, sixty-five cents in excess of the sum prescribed by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Public Revenues Act 1910: And whereas the said excess expenditure was due to exceptional circumstances connected with the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition held at Dunedin during the aforesaid period: And whereas it is desirable to validate the said excess expenditure: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The expenditure by the Dunedin City Council during the year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, of the sum of one thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars, sixty-five cents in excess of the maximum amount authorized by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Public Revenues Act 1910, to be expended for purposes not authorized by any Act or law is hereby validated.

Whereas the Greytown Borough Council was duly authorized by a poll of ratepayers taken on the seventeenth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty, to raise a loan of twenty thousand dollars under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1913: And whereas part of such loan-namely, the sum of four thousand dollars -was to be used for the purpose of extending and constructing drainage-works, and the balance of such loan-namely, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars -was to be used for the purpose of providing advances to owners of lands and buildings within the said borough for the construction of private drains, the supply of sanitary appliances, and for all work and material in connection therewith: And whereas the said Council has raised out of the said sum of sixteen thousand dollars the sum of eight thousand dollars and made advances for the purpose aforesaid to owners of lands and buildings, of which advances there has been repaid to the said Council the sum of two thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars, fifty-one and two third cents: And whereas it is desirable to authorize the said Council to expend out of such sum of two thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars, fifty-one and two third cents aforesaid the following sums-namely, an amount of six hundred dollars for the purpose of constructing drains and drainage-works in addition to and in extension of the present drainage-works within the said borough, and an amount of one thousand four hundred dollars in reconstructing and renewing certain drains and drainage-works now found to be defective in the said borough: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Greytown Borough Council to expend out of the said sum of two thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars, fifty-one and two third cents an amount of six hundred dollars for the purpose of constructing drains and drainage-works in addition to and in extension of the present drainage-works within the said borough, and an amount of one thousand four hundred dollars in reconstructing and renewing certain drains and drainage-works now found to be defective within the said borough.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section twenty of the Shops and Offices Act 1921-22 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), the Eketahuna Borough Council shall, save as provided in the next succeeding subsection, take, within one month after presentation to it of a requisition in that behalf, a special poll of the electors of the Borough of Eketahuna to determine the statutory closing-day in the borough under the said Act.

(2) The Council shall not take such special poll unless—

• (a) The requisition is signed by not less than two-fifths of the total number of electors of the borough, and is presented to the Council not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight; and

• (b) Security to the satisfaction of the Council is given for the payment to it of the actual cost of taking the poll.

(3) The provisions of subsections eight to eleven of section twenty of the said Act shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the special poll taken under this section.

(4) Any day appointed as the statutory closing-day pursuant to such special poll shall continue to be the statutory closing-day for the borough until another day is appointed in accordance with section twenty of the said Act.

The expenditure of thirty-nine dollars, eighty-one cents by the Newmarket Borough Council on the official opening of the new railway overbridge in Victoria Crescent in the said borough during the month of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas the lands hereinafter described form part of the Auckland Domain, and are held by the Corporation of the City of Auckland upon the trusts created by the Auckland Domain Vesting Act 1893: And whereas it is desirable that the same should be leased to the Auckland Bowling Club for the extension of the club's greens: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Auckland Domain Vesting Act 1893, or in any other Act, the Corporation of the City of Auckland may, with the prior consent of the Governor-General and upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, grant a lease or leases to the Auckland Bowling Club (Incorporated) of all that area of land in the North Auckland Land District situated in Block VIII, Rangitoto Survey District, and being a part of the Auckland Domain, containing by admeasurement one acre and twenty-three perches, more or less: Bounded, commencing at a point being the northeastern corner of Allotment 1 of Section 18 of the Suburbs of Auckland, and bounded by other part of Auckland Domain by lines 161° 38′, 7.83 links; 154° 55′, 65.15 links; 217° 24′, 15.2 links; 154° 30′, 246 links; 209° 02′, 371.2 links; 308° 27′, 260.9 links; and by Allotment 1 of Section 18, Suburbs of Auckland, 29° 02′, 530.3 links, to the point of commencement; for such term or terms not exceeding twenty-one years, at such rentals, and upon such conditions as the Auckland City Council shall think fit; and such conditions may include a provision for the payment of compensation for improvements upon determination of any such lease or leases.

The Greymouth Borough Council is hereby authorized to contribute a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars towards any fund administered by the Public Trustee and established for or towards the relief of the dependants of persons who lost their lives in the Dobson Mine disaster of 1926.

The payment by the Akaroa Borough Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, of the sum of one hundred dollars in purchasing panoramic photographs of Akaroa and the surrounding district is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Council may by special order under section one hundred and eighty-six of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, declare the lands described in subsection three hereof to be a public street notwithstanding that the said lands do not comply with the provisions of the said section, and upon the passing of such special order the said lands shall become a street vested as such in the Corporation of the Borough of New Plymouth.

(2) With respect to the said street the provisions of section one hundred and eighty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, shall be read as if the words “thirty-three feet” and “sixty-six feet” in that section were respectively “a specified distance being not greater than fifty feet” and “a specified distance being not greater than one hundred feet.”

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

Firstly, all that piece of land being part of Section 4 on the public maps of the Fitzroy District, Block V, Paritutu Survey District, and being part of the land comprised in Crown grant registered Number 2318, recorded in Register-book Number 8, folio 99, Taranaki Deeds Registry, the said piece of land and the linkages thereof being particularly delineated on the enlarged plan of right-of-way endorsed upon the plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at New Plymouth as Number 1517, and thereon coloured brown.

Secondly, all that piece of land being part of subdivision numbered 9, part of Section 4, Fitzroy District, Block V, Paritutu Survey District, and also that piece of land containing nine and six-tenths perches being also part of Section 4 aforesaid, both the said pieces of land being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 43, folio 124, Taranaki Register, and being particularly delineated on the enlarged plan of right-of-way hereinbefore referred to, but not coloured.

Thirdly, all that piece of land containing twenty-two and one-tenth perches being part of Section 4, Fitzroy District, Block V, Paritutu Survey District, being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 104, folio 199, Taranaki Register, and being particularly delineated on the enlarged plan of right-of-way hereinbefore referred to, and thereon coloured pink.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Christchurch City Council to increase its original contribution to the cost of the said bridge in manner aforesaid, and to pay the said additional money as well as the said original contribution out of a loan to be raised for that purpose.

(2) The Christchurch City Council is hereby empowered to raise a loan of nine thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars for the above-mentioned purposes as a special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special order of the said Council and without complying with the requirements of sections nine to thirteen of the said Act.

Whereas by the Auckland (Symonds Street) Cemeteries Act 1908, the lands hereinafter referred to (being part of a Jewish cemetery) became vested in the Corporation of the City of Auckland for the purposes of that Act: And whereas a request has been made to the Auckland City Council to return a certain portion of the said land by causing it to be vested in trustees for the Hebrew community of Auckland: And whereas it is desirable to empower the Auckland City Council in its discretion to give effect to such request: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Corporation of the City of Auckland is hereby empowered to transfer to the Auckland Beth Israel Trust Board, incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908, such part (not exceeding twenty perches) of the land containing one acre originally granted to John Israel Montefiore and David Nathan by Crown grant dated the twenty-fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and now vested in the said Corporation, as the Auckland City Council may by resolution determine, to be held by the said Trust Board for such purposes of the said Hebrew community, and subject to such limitations as the said Council fixes in such resolution.

(1) The Kamo Town Board is hereby authorized to sell the said hall-site by public tender or private treaty in one or more lots at a price not less than the existing Government valuation.

(2) The said Board is further authorized to purchase such land as it may think fit for the erection of a hall and offices thereon and for recreation purposes, and to use the proceeds of the sale of the said hall-site and the said sum of one thousand dollars and accrued interest thereon now held by the Board for the purpose of purchasing, improving, and maintaining such land as aforesaid and for the erection of a hall and offices thereon.

Whereas in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six the Papatoetoe Town Board, with the approval of the ratepayers, raised a special loan of nine thousand dollars for the purchase of certain pieces of land for recreation and park area purposes: And whereas the purchase of the said land has been completed and an unexpended balance of loan-moneys amounting to eight thousand and eighty-eight dollars remains to the credit of the loan account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or any other Act, the Papatoetoe Town Board is hereby authorized to expend the said unexpended balance of eight thousand and eighty-eight dollars on constructing access roads to, providing privy and shelter accommodation on, and otherwise improving the said land.

(1) The Board is hereby empowered to raise, under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, but by resolution of the Board and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, a special loan for an amount equal to the difference between the said sinking fund and the sum required to redeem the said debentures maturing on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

(2) The said loan shall be for a period not exceeding twenty years from the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

(3) For the purposes of providing for the repayment of such loan under the provisions hereinbefore contained on maturity thereof the Board shall establish a sinking fund of not less than three per centum per annum on the amount so borrowed by the Board.

(4) As security for the repayment of the said loan and for the payment of the annual and other charges in respect thereof the Board shall make and levy a special rate over the whole of the rateable property in the Johnsonville Town District sufficient to meet the said charges.

Whereas by section fourteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1914, certain powers of Borough Councils with respect to drainage and sanitation were conferred on the One Tree Hill, the Epsom, and the Eden Terrace Road Boards: And whereas the Epsom and the Eden Terrace Road Boards have been dissolved: And whereas by an Order in Council under the Counties Act 1920, dated the third day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the sixth day of the same month, certain powers of Borough Councils with respect to drainage and sanitation (including the powers defined in the said section fourteen) were conferred on the One Tree Hill Road Board: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Section fourteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1914, is hereby repealed.

(1) The expenditure by the Board out of the proceeds of No 1 loan of the sum of eight thousand seven hundred dollars in the construction of a pumping-station and rising-main is hereby validated.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or any other Act, the Board is hereby authorized to pay to the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board the sum of two thousand and thirty-one dollars and sixty cents out of the unexpended surplus of the proceeds of No 1 loan, and the sum of one thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars, sixty and two thirds cents out of the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars about to be raised by the Board for the completion of the drainage of the Eastern Area.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the said Board, for the purpose of providing the money necessary to defray the cost of completing the said undertaking, may borrow and shall at all times be deemed to have been authorized to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, but without taking the steps described in sections nine to thirteen of that Act, the sum of twelve thousand dollars.

(2) Upon the raising of such loan all the powers and provisions contained in sections twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen of the Thames Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act 1923, shall, with the necessary modifications, be applicable to the sum so raised in the same manner and to the same extent as if the said loan had been raised under that Act.

(1) The Napier Harbour Board is hereby empowered to grant to the Napier Technical School Board a lease, with the option to purchase, of that piece of land containing two acres three roods four and eight-tenths perches, being part of Te Whare-o-Maraenui Block and of Town Section 628, Napier, comprising Lots 664, 665, 666, 667, 669, 670, 671, and 672 on deposited plan Number 2311 in the Hawke's Bay Land Registry Office, at such rent and price and upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed on.

(2) Upon lodgment of a lease as aforesaid, or of a transfer giving effect to such purchase, from the said Napier Harbour Board to the said Napier Technical School Board of the said land the District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Hawke's Bay shall register the same, and upon registration of such transfer shall issue a title in respect of the said land in the name of the Napier Technical School Board.

Section one hundred and twenty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1924, is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “may at any time sell”, the words “or exchange for other lands.”

The Lyttelton Harbour Board is hereby empowered to pay out of its Harbour Fund such sum or sums as it thinks fit, not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars, towards the cost of the preparation and publication of an historical handbook or brochure in connection with the celebration of the jubilee of the Board to be held during the month of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

Whereas in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five the Auckland Electric-power Board (hereinafter called the Board) purchased the premises situated in Queen Street in the City of Auckland known as the British Hotel, being Lots 1, 2, and 3 on deposited plan Number 8353, and part of Allotment 14 of Section 16 of the City of Auckland: And whereas at the time of such purchase such premises were and now are subject to two several memoranda of mortgage securing the principal sums of twenty thousand dollars and thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars respectively: And whereas in pursuance of the terms of such purchase the Board executed in favour of the vendor a third mortgage to secure repayment of the sum of forty-six thousand dollars: And whereas in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six the Board purchased the premises situated in Durham Street in the City of Auckland known as the Commercial Travellers' Club, being Lot 4 on deposited plan Number 1239 and portion of Allotment 14 of Section 16 of the City of Auckland: And whereas at the time of such purchase such premises were and now are subject to a certain memorandum of mortgage securing the principal sum of fourteen thousand dollars: And whereas the Board has no power to borrow money except in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, and it is desired to validate the purchase of the properties hereinbefore referred to subject to the mortgages mentioned and the giving by the Board of the said mortgage of forty-six thousand dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The purchase by the Board of the properties above described, subject to the mortgages mentioned and the giving by the Board of the said mortgage for forty-six thousand dollars, is hereby validated.

Whereas it is provided by section forty-seven of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, that an electric-power Board may provide public offices within the electric-power district: And whereas the Borough of Hamilton is situated within the boundaries of the Central Electric-power District, but does not form part of the said district: And whereas it is expedient that the public offices of the said district be established within the Borough of Hamilton: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Central Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to exercise within the Borough of Hamilton the powers conferred by section forty-seven of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, as if the said borough was situated within the Central Electric-power District.

(1) The said conditions are hereby validated and shall have binding effect as between the licensee and the consumers in cases where the change-over is made.

(2) The reference of any dispute to a Board of Appeal as provided by the said conditions shall be deemed to be a submission to arbitration under the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1908, or any statutory modification thereof, and the Board of Appeal shall have all the powers vested in arbitrators appointed under the provisions of that Act. In the event of the members of the Board of Appeal not being unanimous in their decision on any matter referred to them the decision of a majority of the members thereof shall be the decision of the Board of Appeal.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the said Board to apply the moneys borrowed or to be borrowed as aforesaid in such manner as it may from time to time decide, with the approval of the Minister of Public Works, to the carrying-out of any of the purposes for which the loan was authorized, irrespective of the specific amounts allocated to the said purposes in the loan proposal.

(2) The said Board is empowered to borrow a further sum not exceeding thirteen thousand two hundred dollars for the purpose of completing any of the purposes for which the said loan of four hundred thousand dollars and the further sum of twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars were raised without it being necessary to give any notice to or take a further poll of the ratepayers.

(3) The special rate made and levied for the purpose of securing repayment of the said loans of four hundred thousand dollars and such further sum of twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars shall also be the rate for securing the repayment of the sum authorized to be borrowed by the last preceding subsection.

Whereas by a deed of agreement bearing date the thirtieth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and made between the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Gore (hereinafter referred to as the Council) of the one part and the Southland Electric-power Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) of the other part the Council agreed to sell and the Board to purchase the Council's reticulation system for the distribution of electric energy in and about the Borough of Gore: And whereas by the said deed of agreement the Board agreed that it would as part of the purchase-money for such reticulation system become responsible for and indemnify the Council against all payments of principal, interest, and other charges falling due after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, with respect to the following loans raised by the Council-namely, (a) the Gore Borough electric-light loan of three thousand dollars, falling due on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and (b) the Gore Borough completion electric-light and street-lighting loan of twelve thousand dollars, falling due on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-two: And whereas the Board has no authority to pay out of its loan-moneys the interest from time to time falling due with respect to the said loans: And whereas it is desirable that the Board should be empowered so to do: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board is hereby empowered to make all payments of interest falling due with respect to the above-mentioned loans after the said first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, out of loan-moneys held by the Board for the purposes specified in paragraph (f) of subsection five of section one hundred and fourteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1921-22.

(1) The Tauranga Electric-power Board is hereby empowered by resolution of the Board and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, to raise a special loan or loans under that Act not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of nine thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying the costs of and incidental to converting such portion of the present eleven-thousand-volt line as is erected between the Te Puke Substation and the Omanawa Power-station to one of thirty-three thousand volts, and if it considers it advisable so to do of erecting an extension of such converted line to McLarens Falls Station.

(2) As security for the repayment of the said loan or loans and for the payment of the interest and sinking fund thereon the Board is hereby authorized and empowered to make and levy a special rate on all rateable property within the inner area of the Board's district, as described in the First Schedule to the Proclamation defining the Tauranga Electric-power District in the New Zealand Gazette dated the fourteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, sufficient to meet the annual charges on the said sum of nine thousand dollars, plus ten per centum additional of such annual charges.

(3) Subject to the approval of the Public Trust Office Investment Board, the Public Trustee is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to lend to the Tauranga Electric-power Board an amount or amounts not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of nine thousand dollars upon such terms and conditions as the said Investment Board directs.

Whereas the Opunake Electric-power Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) was on the sixteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, duly authorized by the ratepayers of the Opunake Electric-power District to raise a loan of one hundred and forty thousand dollars for the purpose of generating and distributing electric energy throughout the said district and outer area: And whereas the Board paid out of the said loan interest and sinking-fund charges thereon amounting to eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars for the financial year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-five: And whereas the said payment was not made in conformity with the requirements of section sixty-eight of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925: And whereas it is expedient to validate the said payment: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payment by the Opunake Electric-power Board out of the said loan of one hundred and forty thousand dollars of the said interest and sinking-fund charges amounting to eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The said Otago Central Electric - power Board is hereby empowered, by resolution of the Board and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, to raise a special loan of a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the purpose of completing the undertaking and purposes, or any of them, for which the said two loans of fifty thousand dollars and the said loan of twenty thousand dollars, or any of them, were raised.

(2) The said Board is further empowered by resolution of the Board to make and levy such special rate on the capital value of the rateable property in the Otago Central Electric-power District as in the opinion of the Board may be necessary as security for the said loan and for the payment of the interest and other charges in respect of such loan.

(3) Such special rate may be levied as a part of or in addition to any special rates made and levied in respect of the original loans hereinbefore mentioned.

Whereas by a special order (hereinafter referred to as the said special order) duly made on the twenty-fifth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and confirmed on the twenty-sixth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, the Hauraki Drainage Board, in pursuance and exercise of powers vested in it in that behalf, decided to raise a special loan of two thousand dollars for a term of thirty-six and a half years, and to pay interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum, for the purpose of providing the cost of widening, deepening, improving, and erecting flood-gates in the drains known as the Thames Valley outlet and Te Kauri No 1 drain; widening, deepening, and improving the Wharepoa Road North drain; widening, deepening, and improving the Willow drain; stopbanking the Waihou River from the Willow drain to Dally's outlet drain; and constructing a new intersection drain from the Willow drain to the northern boundary of Section 29, Turua Estate, and declared that the cost of raising the said loan and interest and sinking-fund charges for the first year on the loan should be payable out of the moneys so raised, and that the security for the payment of the interest and sinking fund on the loan should be a special rate of thirteen thirty-seconds of five twelfths of a cent in the dollar on the unimproved rateable value of all lands in Class A, forty-five three hundred and eighty-fourths of a cent in the dollar on the unimproved rateable value of all lands in Class B, and twenty three hundred and eighty-fourths of a cent in the dollar on the unimproved rateable value of all lands in Class C within the Central Loan Special-rating Area as defined in the said special order: And whereas by Order in Council under the Land Drainage Act 1908, dated the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the seventeenth day of the same month, it was ordered and declared that the Hauraki Drainage District and the Horahia Drainage District should, as on and from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, form one united district under and for the purposes of the said Act, and that the name of the said united district should be the Hauraki United Drainage District: And whereas there is no authority for the Hauraki United Drainage Board to raise the said loan of two thousand dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Hauraki United Drainage Board is hereby empowered to raise the said loan of two thousand dollars pursuant to the terms of the said special order in all respects as if the said special order had been duly made by it under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or any other Act, all powers of the Horahia Drainage Board in respect of or in any way incidental or relating to the raising of the said balance of nineteen thousand dollars of the said loan shall for all purposes be deemed to have been transferred to the Hauraki United Drainage Board on the constitution of the Hauraki United Drainage District, and the said Hauraki United Drainage Board may, out of the proceeds of any part of the said balance hereafter raised by it, refund to its General Account moneys advanced thereout as aforesaid.

(2) Any power with respect to debentures issued or to be issued for the purposes of the said loan of thirty-one thousand dollars or any part thereof that would have been exercisable by the Horahia Drainage Board if it had continued in existence may be exercised by the Hauraki United Drainage Board.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the rights of the Bank of New Zealand in respect of the debentures hypothecated or mortgaged to the said bank by the Horahia Drainage Board.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Board shall be deemed with respect to moneys heretofore borrowed as aforesaid to have been lawfully empowered to borrow all such moneys, and may for such purposes as aforesaid borrow by way of bank overdraft not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, such additional moneys as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, but so that the total amount outstanding on that date in respect of all moneys borrowed under the authority of this section, whether before or after the passing of this Act, will not exceed the sum of three thousand one hundred dollars.

(2) Save as provided in subsection five hereof, the principal sum owing by the Board on the said thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, in respect of all moneys borrowed as aforesaid up to that date shall be repaid by seven equal payments out of its revenue, one such payment to be made in each year of the period of seven years commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five.

(3) For the purpose of providing the whole or any part of any such payment the Board may by resolution make and levy a special rate. Such special rate shall be a uniform rate over all rateable property in the Board's district.

(4) All interest and any other charges in respect of any part of such principal sum for the time being outstanding shall be paid by the Board out of its ordinary revenue and not out of the proceeds of such special rate.

(5) At any time within the period of seven years referred to in subsection two of this section the Board may borrow, by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, in the same manner as for a public work, but without taking the steps described in sections nine to thirteen of that Act, an amount sufficient to repay such sum as is then outstanding, and shall apply the proceeds of such loan towards such repayment in lieu of making or continuing to make the yearly payments as set out in the said subsection two.

(6) Moneys borrowed as aforesaid by way of bank overdraft, whether before or after the passing of this Act, shall not at any time be taken into account in computing for the purposes of section three of the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, the maximum amount that may lawfully be borrowed by the Board or the amount that it may owe at the end of any year on its general or any separate account.

(1) The ratepayers list prepared as aforesaid for the current year in respect of each of the drainage districts mentioned in subsection four hereof shall be deemed to have been properly prepared in accordance with section six of the said Act, and accordingly, after having been signed by a Magistrate pursuant to section eight of the said Act, shall become or be deemed to have become the roll of ratepayers for such district.

(2) Such roll shall be conclusive evidence of the persons named therein being ratepayers of the district and of the correctness of all valuations of their properties appearing thereon.

(3) Any rate made or levied by the Board of each of the said drainage districts shall not be called in question by reason only of the fact that the ratepayers list of that district was prepared in the manner aforesaid.

(4) The drainage districts to which this section relates are as follows: Aka Aka, Eureka, Freshfield, Hillside, Hungahunga, Kirikiriroa, Mangawara, Moutoa, Te Rapa, Uapoto, Waiatarua, Waitoa, and Woodlands Drainage Districts.

(1) The authority conferred on the Minister of Internal Affairs by subsection five of section three of the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, to fix the limits of the power to borrow by way of bank overdraft in the case of local authorities constituted after the commencement of that Act is hereby extended so as to enable that Minister to fix the limits of the power of the Mangapu Drainage Board to borrow by way of bank overdraft until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

(2) In the case of the said Drainage Board the limits imposed by subsection two of the aforesaid section three shall not apply with respect to any year prior to the year beginning on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.

Whereas the Waimatuku River Board (hereinafter referred to as the said Board) was authorized by a poll of ratepayers taken on the eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, to raise a special loan of sixteen thousand dollars under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1913, for the purpose, inter alia, of improving the bed of the Waimatuku River by deepening, straightening, and widening the same: And whereas the said Board has in good faith out of the proceeds of such special loan expended the sum of six hundred and thirty-nine dollars, eight and two thirds cents on the construction of bridges over a new channel made by the said Board for the purpose of straightening the course of the said river: And whereas the said Board had no authority so to expend any of the said loan-moneys: And whereas it is desirable that such expenditure should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payment by the said Board out of the proceeds of such special loan as aforesaid of the sum of six hundred and thirty-nine dollars, eight and two thirds cents on the construction of bridges over the Waimatuku River is hereby validated.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the original agreement and the amending agreement (the said agreements being recorded on file numbered PW 48/174 in the Department of Public Works at Wellington), and the proposals, conditions, and provisions therein contained, are hereby validated and shall be binding on the parties thereto.

(2) The Mangawara River Board may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, make and levy in any year a separate rate of such amount as may be necessary to provide the portion of the said sum of four thousand dollars repayable in that year pursuant to the said agreements or any instalment of interest thereon.

(1) The County Councils of Franklin, Raglan, and Waikato may raise a loan in the manner provided by the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), for a sum not exceeding nineteen thousand five hundred dollars, as a joint loan under Part 2 of the said Act, without further authority than this section, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of the said Act.

(2) Each of the said County Councils shall be deemed to have taken all the steps required to raise a joint loan under Part 2 of the said Act over that portion of its district (which is hereby declared to be a special-rating area) situated within the boundaries of the Waikato River District as it existed before the issue of the Proclamation extending the boundaries of the said district dated the fourth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and gazetted on the tenth day of the same month (hereinafter referred to as the river district), and to have agreed to the raising of the said loan in the proportions of forty per centum to Waikato County Council, twenty-four per centum to Raglan County Council, and thirty-six per centum to Franklin County Council, and to the appointment of the Franklin County Council as the principal local authority.

(3) The loan hereby authorized and interest thereon may, at the discretion of the principal local authority, be repaid by half-yearly instalments over such term of years not exceeding fifty as may be agreed upon by the principal local authority and the lender, and in such case paragraphs (b) and (c) of section sixty-two of the said Act shall not apply.

(4) The principal local authority, upon receipt of the principal moneys hereby authorized to be raised, shall apply the same in the manner following and not in the manner set out in paragraph (h) of section sixty-four of the said Act:—

• (a) In repayment of the loan of twelve thousand dollars advanced to the River Board by the Australian Mutual Provident Society, with interest and expenses incurred by that society:

• (b) In payments of the amounts due to the National Bank of New Zealand for advances and interest on the River Board's General Account and on its Development and Flood-prevention Loan Account:

• (c) In payment of the general debts and liabilities of the River Board, including payment to the County Councils thereto entitled of the amounts to credit of any special interest to trust account as at the date of the abolition of the river district:

• (d) In part payment, to the extent of three hundred and forty dollars, forty-four and one sixth cents, with interest thereon from the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, of the debt to the National Bank of New Zealand for advances to the Maungatawhiri Loan Account.

(5) For the purpose of meeting further liabilities imposed upon the Franklin County Council by the said award that Council may raise a loan not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars over the Maungatawhiri Subdivision of the river district under the provisions of the said Act, but without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen thereof, and without further authority than this section; and shall apply the proceeds thereof in repayment of the debentures of the loans of one thousand dollars and one thousand four hundred and forty dollars over the Maungatawhiri Subdivision, and interest thereon to the date of repayment.

(6) For the purpose of meeting further liabilities imposed upon it by the said award the Franklin County Council may raise a loan not exceeding two thousand two hundred dollars over the Koheroa Subdivision of the river district under the provisions of the said Act, but without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen thereof, and without further authority than this section; and shall apply the proceeds thereof in repayment of the debentures of the Koheroa loan of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and interest thereon to the date of repayment, and in repayment to the extent of four hundred and fifty dollars, with interest thereon from the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, of the amount due to the National Bank of New Zealand for advances to the Maungatawhiri Loan Account.

(7) The Franklin County Council may, by resolution gazetted, decide to pay the interest and sinking fund for the first year out of the proceeds of the several loans hereby authorized.

(8) Each of the County Councils of Franklin, Raglan, and Waikato shall be deemed to have over that portion of the counties of Franklin, Raglan, and Waikato respectively which was included in the river district all the powers of a River Board pertaining to the classification of lands and the levying of rates, save that the power to levy a River Board general rate shall be exercised only to provide funds for the maintenance of works carried out by the River Board; and such general rates may be made and levied in the same manner as the general rates of a County Council are made and levied.

(9) Each of the County Councils of Franklin, Raglan, and Waikato may annually transfer to its General Account from the Interest Account kept by it in respect of each of the several loans raised as aforesaid such sum as in the opinion of the Audit Office represents the office, clerical, legal, and other expenses of the Council, of any nature whatsoever, in carrying into effect the terms of the said award and of this section.

Whereas the Ohai Railway Board is authorized by section sixty-five of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, to overdraw its bank account to the amount of fifty thousand dollars; but the said section of the said Act requires that the said Board shall, on or before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, reduce its bank overdraft to the limit prescribed by the general law relating to Railway Boards then in force: And whereas it is desirable that the period within which the said Board may exercise the powers given by the said section should be extended to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-three: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Section sixty-five of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby amended by omitting the words “nineteen hundred and twenty-eight” wherever the same appear in that section, and substituting the words “nineteen hundred and thirty-three.”

The Ohai Railway Board is hereby authorized to expend the sum of four hundred and twenty dollars on advertising in and purchasing copies of the book entitled “The Dominion of New Zealand.”

(1) The Ohai Railway Board, being a Railway Board constituted under the Local Railways Act 1914, is hereby empowered to pay out of its Railway Fund such sum as it thinks fit, not exceeding two hundred dollars, towards defraying the cost incurred in respect of the Southland Provincial Court at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition held at Dunedin in the years nineteen hundred and twenty-five and nineteen hundred and twenty-six.

(2) Any payment under this section may be made to the executive committee of the Southland Provincial Court aforesaid, or to any person who satisfies the Board that he has authority to receive moneys on behalf of that committee.

(1) The Board is hereby authorized to contribute to the extra cost occasioned by the construction at a higher level of the bridge proposed to be constructed over the River Avon in line with Seaview Road, New Brighton, and Page's Road, Bexley, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Board, by special order and without taking the steps described in sections nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, to raise a special loan for the purpose of making such contribution and of removing its existing tram-line and laying a double line at a different level to conform to the requirements of the proposed new bridge.

(3) For the purposes of such loan a special-rating area may be created by the Board consisting of a part of the Christchurch Tramway District defined for that purpose, and such loan may be raised in respect of such defined part of the said district.

(4) The account of the special-rating area shall be kept separate and distinct from the accounts of the general tramway undertaking of the Board, and the interest and sinking fund in connection with the said special loan may be paid out of the special rate made and levied for the purposes of the said special loan without any reference to the accounts of the general undertaking of the Board.

Section one hundred and fifteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby repealed.

Whereas the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Board (hereinafter referred to as the said High Schools Board) by a transfer dated the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and registered as Number 18260 in the Land Registration District of Otago, transferred to John Robson Section 37, Block V, Strath Taieri Survey District, being part of the land vested in the said High Schools Board: And whereas the said John Robson, by a mortgage registered as Number 13065 in the said district, mortgaged the said section to secure the payment of two hundred and seventy-six dollars, ninety-seven and a half cents, being balance of the purchase-money and seventy-two dollars being interest due under fourteen promissory notes: And whereas the said John Robson, by mortgage registered as Number 13066 in the said district, mortgaged the said section to Elspeth Duncan to secure the payment of fifty dollars: And whereas the said John Robson shortly afterwards disappeared without having paid any part of the principal sums secured by the said mortgages or any interest thereon: And whereas the said Board is now and has been for many years in the position of a mortgagee in possession of the said section: And whereas by a lease which expires on the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the said High Schools Board leased the said section, together with other lands, to Andrew Carruthers: And whereas it is desirable that the title to the said area of land should be vested in the said High Schools Board freed and discharged from the said mortgage to Elspeth Duncan: And whereas the representatives of the said Elspeth Duncan have consented to the said section being revested in the said High Schools Board released from the mortgage to her: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Section 37, Block V, Strath Taieri Survey District, is hereby vested in the said High Schools Board released and discharged from the said mortgages registered as Number 13065 and Number 13066 respectively.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said Act or any other Act, the Board shall after the commencement of this Act consist of ten members, appointed or elected as follows:—

Three members appointed by the Governor-General:

Two members elected by the parents of the children attending the schools under the control and management of the Board:

One member appointed by the Education Board of the District of Taranaki:

One member appointed by the New Plymouth Borough Council:

One member appointed by the Taranaki County Council:

One member elected by associations of employers in local industries:

One member elected by associations of employees in local industries.

(2) [Repealed]

(3) [Repealed]

(4) [Repealed]

(5) [Repealed]

(6) [Repealed]

(7) [Repealed]

(8) Notwithstanding the variation of its constitution effected pursuant to this section, the New Plymouth High School Board shall at all times hereafter continue to be the same body corporate as that constituted by the said Act.

(9) The New Plymouth Technical School is hereby placed under the control of the Board, which is hereby declared the controlling authority thereof in lieu of the Education Board of the District of Taranaki, and the corporation of the Board of Managers of the said technical school is hereby dissolved.

(10) All property of the said Board of Managers shall vest in the Board, and all rights and liabilities of the Board of Managers shall become the rights and liabilities of the Board.

(11) The Governor-General may by Order in Council direct what property of the Education Board of the District of Taranaki held or used in respect of the said technical school as the former controlling authority thereof, and what rights and liabilities of the said Education Board in respect of the said school, shall pass to or vest in the Board, and such property shall vest in and such rights and liabilities shall pass to the Board as from a date to be named in the Order in Council.

(12) The Governor-General may by the same or any other Order in Council authorize and empower the Board to have the use and control of the buildings used for the purposes of the technical school, and of any equipment, plant, and other chattels used or connected therewith, for such term or terms and upon such terms and conditions as are set out in the Order in Council; and the Education Board of the District of Taranaki shall give effect to such Order in Council accordingly.

(13) The New Plymouth High School Act 1889, is hereby amended by repealing sections four and five thereof.

(1) The land hereinafter described is hereby vested without further assurance and transfer, as from the date of the passing of this Act, in the Hastings High School Board constituted under the Education Act 1914, freed from any trust for technical-high-school purposes, as a site for a secondary school.

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

All those pieces of land in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, situate in the Borough of Hastings, containing in the aggregate nineteen acres one rood thirty-eight and eight-tenths perches, be the same a little more or less, being, firstly, all that parcel of land situate as aforesaid in the said Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, containing by admeasurement five acres three roods fourteen perches, be the same a little more or less, being part of the Heretaunga Block 28N, and being Suburban Section 38 on the plan of the Town of East Hastings deposited in the office of the Registrar of Deeds at Napier under Number 83A; secondly, all that parcel of land situate as aforesaid, containing by admeasurement eleven acres and twelve and three-tenths perches, be the same a little more or less, being Farm Lot or Section 42 on the plan of East Hastings deposited as aforesaid under Number 83B; thirdly, all that parcel of land situate as aforesaid, containing by admeasurement two acres two roods twelve and one-half perches, more or less, being part of Suburban Section 39 on the said deposited plan numbered 83A: bounded towards the north-west by said Section 38 firstly above described, 578.3 links; towards the north-east by Section 36 on said plan, 450.7 links; towards the south-east by other part of said Section 39, 567 links; and towards the south-west by part of the land secondly above described, 450.7 links: the above-described pieces of land being all those lands comprised in deeds of conveyance dated respectively the thirtieth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, and the second day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty, and registered in the Deeds Register Office at Napier under Numbers 58453 and 58460 respectively.

(1) Each of the local authorities respectively may in respect of such excesses as aforesaid over the respective loans raised exercise all the powers of section nineteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, in as full and ample a manner as if the said section contained no limitation of the amount which might be raised by way of supplementary loan:

Provided that nothing herein shall authorize any of the local authorities respectively to raise by way of supplementary loan a greater sum than is represented by the amount of such respective excesses as aforesaid.

(2) Any special rate made by the respective local authorities for securing the payment of interest and other charges in respect of any such loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes.

(3) The Glen Eden Town Board may out of the proceeds of such supplementary loan refund to its General Account any moneys paid thereout before the passing of this Act to meet interest, cost, and sinking fund in respect of the original loan raised for the purpose of paying its contribution as aforesaid.

The Buller County Council and the Westport Borough Council are hereby authorized each to pay to the Cawthron Institute a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars in each year during the period ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the first payment to be made during the current financial year, as a contribution toward a scientific investigation by the Institute of the utilization of certain lands in the Buller County:

Provided that no payment shall be made in any year except with the approval of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

(1) The vesting of the land hereinafter described in the Ashley River Trust is hereby cancelled, and such land is hereby vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Rangiora as a reserve for planting purposes, subject to the right of the said trust to enter and carry out thereon any of the works authorized by section fifteen of the said Act.

(2) The land to which the last preceding subsection relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement four acres one rood twenty-three perches, more or less, being part of Reserve 3036 situated in Block VI, Rangiora Survey District, and bounded as follows: towards the north by Reserves 3503, 4136, and 4137, 225.5, 408.9, and 1499.8 links; towards the north-east and east by other part of Reserve 3036, 152.4 and 86.2 links respectively; towards the south by a road-line, 1603.1, 399.1, and 218.0 links; and again towards the west by other part of Reserve 3036, 200 links: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked PWD 69240, deposited in Head Office, Department of Public Works, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) On receipt of petitions, under the Seals of the respective Corporations, from the Council and from the Board praying that the city and the district be constituted one united borough under the name of the City of Auckland the Governor-General may by Proclamation unite the city and district accordingly in terms of section one hundred and thirty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, in all respects as if a poll of the electors of the district had been taken on such proposal and had resulted in favour thereof; and in such case one member of the Board (to be chosen by the Board) shall be a Councillor of that city until the next general election of Councillors thereof.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, after the union of the city and the district any special rates heretofore or hereafter made by the Council as security for or for the payment of the annual charges on any loan or loans shall not be levied on the area comprised in the district until fifty per centum of the saleable land in the Orakei Garden Suburb, excluding roads and reserves, has been sold by the Crown and possession thereof given to the purchasers, but otherwise such area may be rated in all respects as an integral part of the city.

(3) Subject to the provisions of subsection nine hereof the Minister of Lands shall, by notice published in the Gazette, declare the date on which the said fifty per centum of land was sold and possession thereof given.

(4) On the publication in the Gazette of the notice aforesaid the area now comprising the district shall become liable for the levy of all special rates made by the Council and which would have been leviable on such area but for the provisions of subsection two hereof, including a proportion for the unexpired portion of the then current year, as from the date mentioned in such notice.

(5) On the publication in the Gazette of the notice aforesaid the Crown shall be deemed to have lent to the Council and the Council shall be deemed to have lawfully borrowed from the Crown the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, and with respect thereto the following provisions shall apply:—

• (a) Such loan shall be deemed to have been lawfully raised by the Council in terms of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, and the provisions of the Act shall, with the necessary modifications, apply thereto. The rate of interest payable on such loan shall be five and one-quarter per centum per annum, the term thereof shall be thirty years, and the Council shall provide a sinking fund of one and one-quarter per centum per annum.

• (b) For the purpose of securing the repayment of the said loan the Council shall appropriate and pledge a special rate in terms of section twenty of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, and may in manner provided by that Act make and levy a special rate to provide for the payment of interest or of interest and sinking fund, as the case may be (or the Council may pay the same out of a special rate made under section seven of the Auckland City Loans Consolidation and Empowering Act 1921).

• (c) All payments to be made to the Crown by the Council shall be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue of the North Auckland Land District, and shall be paid by the Receiver to the Public Account to the credit of the Native Land Settlement Account.

(6) The Crown shall with all reasonable despatch carry out and complete at its own cost the following works and undertakings:—

• (d) The formation and completion of a road from the road known as the Waterfront Road to Whakatakataka Bay, and thence through the district to connect with an existing main road in the district:

• (e) The formation and completion of a road from the Waterfront Road to the eastern boundary of the Crown's property at Mission Bay along the sea front:

• (f) The formation and completion of all roads shown on the sub-divisional plan of the Orakei Model Suburb up to the standard usually required by the Council, including provision of sewerage and water:

• (g) The erection and completion of a new bridge across the Orakei Channel, towards the cost of which the Council shall pay and contribute one-half.

(7) The plans and specifications for the works mentioned in paragraphs (d), (e), and (g) of the last preceding subsection shall be such as are agreed upon between the Minister of Lands and the Council, or in the event of their being unable to agree as may be fixed by a Commissioner to be appointed by the Governor-General on the request of either the said Minister or the Council, in terms of and in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and nineteen of the Public Works Act 1908, which section shall, with the necessary modifications, extend and apply accordingly.

(8) For the purpose of providing the amount to be paid by the Council as its half of the cost of the erection of the aforesaid new bridge over the Orakei Channel the Council may raise a special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, but without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, over the whole or any portion of its district.

(9) The notice mentioned in subsection three hereof shall not be given or published until the works and undertakings mentioned in subsection six hereof have been duly completed or a sum of not less than five hundred thousand dollars has been expended by the Crown upon the same.

(10) It shall be lawful for the Minister of Lands and the Council to agree to modifications of the agreements and provisions herein contained, and to enter into and carry out supplementary agreements for such purpose, or to provide for any matters incidental to or arising out of these provisions.

(11) The area of land comprising the Orakei Garden Suburb is more particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the Waitemata Harbour from Hobson Bay to the north-western corner of Section 40A, Parish of Waitemata, Rangitoto Survey District; thence towards the east by the said Section 40A and Section 39A to Purewa Creek; thence towards the south generally by Purewa Creek and Orakei Creek; and towards the west generally by Hobson Bay aforesaid.

(1) The cost of the said bridge shall be borne in the following proportions:—

• (a) By the Main Highways Board, (i) one-half of such cost up to twenty thousand dollars, (ii) three-fifths of so much of the cost as exceeds twenty thousand dollars but does not exceed forty thousand dollars, (iii) two-thirds of so much of the cost as exceeds forty thousand dollars.

• (b) The balance of the cost shall be borne by the Foxton Borough Council, the Shannon Borough Council, and the Manawatu and Horowhenua County Councils in the proportions of one-twelfth, one-twelfth, five-twelfths, and five-twelfths respectively:

  Provided that if the local authorities' proportions of the cost of the bridge exceed twenty thousand four hundred dollars such excess shall be borne equally by the Manawatu and Horowhenua County Councils.

(2) The cost of the new approach road situate within the Manawatu County shall be provided in manner as follows: Main Highways Board, fifty per centum; Manawatu County Council, fifty per centum.

(3) The cost of the new approach road situate within the Horowhenua County shall be provided in manner as follows: Main Highways Board, fifty per centum; Horowhenua County Council, fifty per centum.

(4) The cost of the new approach road situate within the Shannon Borough shall be borne in manner as follows: Shannon Borough Council, one thousand dollars; Horowhenua County Council, one thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars; the Main Highways Board, the balance of such cost in excess of the sum of these two amounts.

(5) The Main Highways Board shall be the constructing authority in respect of the new bridge and the new approach road situate within the Horowhenua County and the Shannon Borough.

(6) The Manawatu County Council shall be the constructing authority in respect of the new approach road situate within the said county.

(7) Any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the said Councils shall be paid out of the funds of the said Councils into the Construction Fund of the Main Highways Board within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the said Board.

(8) This section shall have the same effect as and shall be deemed to be a warrant under section one hundred and nineteen of the Public Works Act 1908, and the provisions of that section shall apply accordingly.

(1) The Waipu Public Library Institution, incorporated under the Public Libraries Powers Act 1875, is hereby dissolved, and the Registrar of the High Court at Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to note such dissolution on the Court record of the incorporation of the institution.

(2) The Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, vest the land hereinbefore described and formerly held by the said Waipu Public Library Institution in any society incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a public hall and library at Waipu, in trust as a site for a public hall and library, and the Registrar of Deeds for the Deeds Registration District of Auckland shall thereupon make such entries in the register as may be necessary to give full effect to this subsection.

(3) Any moneys formerly belonging to the said Waipu Public Library Institution and now held in trust by any persons shall continue to be held by such persons pending the vesting of the site as aforesaid, and shall then be paid over to the society in which the site is vested. The said moneys shall be applied first in discharging any liabilities of the said Waipu Public Library Institution hereby dissolved, and then in or towards the erection of a hall and library on the said site or towards the maintenance of such hall and library.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act 1908, or in any other Act, the Winton Agricultural and Pastoral Association may sell the land described in subsection three hereof, and may expend the proceeds of such sale in effecting such improvements to the Winton Domain as may be approved by the Winton Domain Board.

(2) The land shall be sold by public auction either in lots or as a whole, and upon such terms and subject to such conditions as to payment or otherwise as the association thinks fit; and the said association is hereby authorized to transfer the same to a purchaser or purchasers, and for the purposes aforesaid may, if it thinks fit, subdivide the said land into lots for sale.

(3) The land hereby authorized to be sold is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Southland Land District containing by admeasurement five acres one rood twenty-seven perches, more or less, being Section 6, Block VI, Town of East Winton, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume XLVI, folio 250, Southland Registry.

Whereas the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association is registered as proprietor of an estate in fee-simple in all that piece of land containing twelve acres three roods twenty-two and a half perches, more or less, being Lot 1 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland under Number 15061 of the subdivision of Allotment 216A and parts of Allotments 215 and others of the Parish of Kirikiriroa, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 135, folio 87, Auckland Registry: And whereas the said association desires to transfer the said land by way of gift to the Corporation of the Borough of Hamilton: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer the said land by way of gift to the Corporation of the Borough of Hamilton to be held in trust for the purposes of a recreation reserve.