Whereas the Pahiatua County Council (hereinafter called the Council) for the purpose of reconstructing certain bridges in the Pahiatua County borrowed the sum of six thousand eight hundred dollars from the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, Limited, and issued debentures providing for the repayment of the said loan by half-yearly instalments of principal and interest payable at the Bank of New Zealand in Melbourne in the State of Victoria in the Commonwealth of Australia: And whereas after the completion of the said works there remained unexpended a balance of one thousand two hundred and twenty two dollars out of the said loan-moneys: And whereas the said National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, Limited, refused to allow any interest upon the said sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty two dollars if the said sum had been applied in reduction of the amount of the said loan by paying certain of the said debentures before their due dates: And whereas in order that the said sum may earn interest pending the arrival of such due dates and also to obtain the benefit of the advantageous rate of exchange the Council has deposited the said sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty two dollars upon several fixed deposits with the Bank of Australasia at Melbourne so that the dates for repayment of the said fixed deposits approximately coincide with the due dates of such debentures: And whereas there being no statutory authority authorizing the Council to invest moneys outside New Zealand it is desired to validate the said action of the Council: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The investment by the Council of the said sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty two dollars upon several fixed deposits with the Bank of Australasia at Melbourne as aforesaid is hereby declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Coromandel County Council (hereinafter called the Council) was on the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, duly authorized by the ratepayers of the Coromandel County to raise for the purpose of constructing a new wharf at Mercury Bay a loan of four thousand dollars, such loan to bear interest at the rate of five and one-half per centum per annum: And whereas the Council raised the said loan by issuing debentures for four thousand dollars on which interest was agreed to be paid at the rate of five and three-quarters per centum per annum and has been paid at that rate from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, to the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, but the debenture-holders have agreed to the reduction of the rate to five and one-half per centum per annum as from the last-mentioned date: And whereas the overpayment of interest at the rate of one-quarter per centum per annum over the said period amounts to fifteen dollars: And whereas it is expedient to validate the said overpayment: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The overpayment by the Council of interest as aforesaid amounting to fifteen dollars is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Council is hereby empowered to collect on all rateable property within the special rating area for a period of twenty years the special rate made and levied over such area as security for the said loan to an amount sufficient to pay interest at the rate of five and three-quarters per centum per annum and sinking fund at the rate of three per centum per annum on the sum of two thousand dollars diverted as aforesaid, and to pay the proceeds of such special rate into the County Fund, and to apply such proceeds towards providing part of the interest and sinking fund on the said Vinegar Hill Bridge Loan (1926).

(2) Nothing herein contained shall limit the powers of the Council pursuant to section twenty-three of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, to amend the special rate made and levied as security for the said loan.

Whereas the Corporation of the County of Hutt (hereinafter called the Corporation) by a deed bearing date the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, granted to Buckleton Brothers, Limited (hereinafter called the company), the right to lay a conduit-pipe under and along Main Day's Bay Road, within the Hutt County, together with the right to convey oil and petroleum products through such pipe for the period and upon the terms and conditions mentioned in the said deed: And whereas pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred and sixty-eight of the Public Works Act 1928, the consent of the Minister of Public Works was obtained in the manner provided by that section: And whereas it is expedient that the action of the Corporation in entering into the said deed should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said deed and all the terms, conditions, covenants, agreements, and provisions therein contained are hereby validated and confirmed as from the date of the execution thereof.

The Corporation of the County of Hutt (hereinafter called the corporation) is hereby authorized to grant to Associated Motorists Petrol Company, Limited (hereinafter called the company), the right to lay a conduit-pipe under and along Main Day's Bay Road, in the County of Hutt, together with the right to convey oil and petroleum products through such pipe, and for this purpose the Corporation is further authorized to enter into a deed with the company conferring such rights and containing such terms, conditions, covenants, agreements, and provisions as may be mutually agreed upon by and between the Corporation and the company:

Provided that no such deed shall have any force or effect unless and until the consent of the Minister of Public Works has been endorsed thereon.

Whereas extensive permanent pavement work was carried out on main highways within the Clive and Poukawa Ridings of the Hawke's Bay County, and by reason of such highways not having been declared to be main roads under paragraph (c) of section one hundred and thirty-one of the Counties Act 1920, the expenditure on such work was debited against the separate accounts for the said ridings: And whereas it is expedient that such expenditure should be apportioned among the separate accounts for certain other ridings as well as the said Clive and Poukawa Ridings as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Hawke's Bay County Council is hereby authorized to credit the separate account for the Clive Riding with the sum of three thousand nine hundred and seventy one dollars and sixteen and two-thirds cents, and to credit the separate account for the Poukawa Riding with the sum of two thousand one hundred and three dollars and thirty and five-sixths cents, and to debit such sums against the separate accounts for the Clive, Havelock, Maraekakaho, Meeanee, Okawa, Petane, Poukawa, Puketapu, and Waimarama Ridings of the said county in proportion to the capital value of the rateable property in each of such ridings as at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-two.

Whereas on the fourth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the Clifton County Council (hereinafter called the Council) resolved by way of special order in pursuance of the Local Authorities Empowering (Relief of Unemployment) Act 1926 Repealed, and all other Acts and powers thereunto enabling, to proceed to raise a loan of one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, to be called the Mohakatino Loan (1933) $1,450, on the security of a special rate of five-twelfths of a cent in the dollar over the Mohakatino special rating area, being Sections 1 and 2 of Block IV, Tainui Survey District, Section 1 of Block I, Waro Survey District, Sections 1A 1 and 1A 2 of Mokau-Mohakatino Block, Block IV, Tainui Survey District, Lot 6 on Deposited Plan 3223 of Block IV, Tainui Survey District, Lot 4 on Deposited Plan 3174 of Blocks III and IV, Tainui Survey District, Lots 4, 5, and 6 on Deposited Plan 3568 of Mohakatino-Parininihi 1C West, Block IV, Tainui Survey District, part Lot 2 on Deposited Plan 3568 of Mohakatino-Parininihi 1C West, Block III, Tainui Survey District: And whereas the said Local Authorities Empowering (Relief of Unemployment) Act 1926 Repealed, contains no sufficient provisions for the raising of loans thereunder on the security of a special rate over part only of a legal subdivision: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council shall for all purposes be deemed to have been lawfully empowered under the said Local Authorities Empowering (Relief of Unemployment) Act 1926 Repealed, to raise the said loan by special order on the security of the said special rate over the said special-rating area, and to make and pledge as security for the said loan the said special rate.

Whereas by a poll of ratepayers taken on the thirteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty, the Manukau County Council was authorized to raise a loan to be known as the Mangere Special Area Water-supply Loan of $130,000 (hereinafter referred to as the said loan) secured over the Mangere Water-supply Special-rating Area for the supply of water to such area: And whereas the Council repaid from the proceeds of such loan to the General Account a sum of two thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty three and one third cents, being preliminary expenses incurred prior to the raising of the said loan in locating a satisfactory water-supply: And whereas the Council failed to comply with the provisions of section five of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, in respect of the payment of such preliminary expenses: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Manukau County Council shall be deemed to have been lawfully empowered to repay to its General Account out of the proceeds of the said loan the said sum of two thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty three and one third cents.

(1) For the purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(2) The Governor-General in Council may, if he thinks fit, appoint a fit person to be the Matakaoa County Commissioner.

(3) The Governor-General in Council may also appoint a fit person to be the Deputy Matakaoa County Commissioner, who shall act when there is any vacancy in the office of Commissioner or when the Commissioner is unable to Act and while so acting shall be deemed to be the Commissioner.

(4) The Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner shall continue in office until the Councillors of the county elected at the first general election of such Councillors to be held after the Commissioner's appointment come into office.

(5) The Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner may be at any time removed from office by the Governor-General in Council for disability, insolvency, neglect of duty, incompetence, or misconduct; or he may at any time resign his office by writing addressed to the Minister. In any such case, or in the event of the death of the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, the Governor-General in Council may appoint any other person to be the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, to hold office for the remainder of the period specified in the last preceding subsection.

(6) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Commissioner, in the name and on behalf of the Council or the Corporation of the County of Matakaoa, as the case may require, may exercise any power, and shall perform all the duties, conferred or imposed upon the Council by the Counties Act 1920, or by any other Act or by any instrument or otherwise.

(7) During the term of office of the Commissioner the Council shall not exercise any power or perform any duty conferred or imposed upon it as aforesaid.

(8) Any power given to the Council to do anything by special order may be exercised by the Commissioner by a special entry in the minute-book of the Council, signed by the Commissioner and confirmed by a similar entry made not sooner than the twenty-eighth day and not later than the seventieth day after the date of such special entry. Public notice of such special entry and of the place and date fixed for its confirmation shall be given once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the date fixed for its confirmation.

(9) All cheques drawn on any bank account of the Council or of the Corporation shall be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by the Commissioner or by any two of such persons as the Commissioner from time to time authorizes to sign cheques.

(10) The Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner shall be paid such remuneration, allowances, and expenses as are fixed from time to time by the Governor-General in Council. All payments under this subsection shall be made out of the County Fund.

(11) The first election of Councillors of the county to be held after the appointment of the Commissioner shall be the election to be held pursuant to the Local Elections and Polls Act 1953, on the second Saturday in October, nineteen hundred and sixty-five.

(12) The borrowing and owing of moneys by the Council at any time before the passing of this Act by way of overdraft in excess of the limits prescribed by the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, are hereby validated.

(13) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, while this section remains in force the limits of the powers of the Council or Commissioner, as the case may be, to borrow or owe moneys under section three of that Act shall be such as may from time to time be approved by the Minister.

Whereas the Thames County Council pursuant to a poll of ratepayers held on the tenth day of December, nineteen hundred and nineteen, borrowed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of forming, regrading, metalling, and tar-grouting the main and subsidiary roads within part of the county, such loan (save as to the sum of twelve thousand dollars hereinafter mentioned) being repayable by instalments spread over a period of thirty-six and one-half years: And whereas, of the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, the sum of forty two thousand dollars was allocated to the improvement of the main Thames-Paeroa Road from the Thames Borough boundary to the Hikutaia Creek: And whereas of the said forty two thousand dollars so borrowed, the sum of thirty thousand two hundred and ninety one dollars and ninety five and five-sixth cents has been expended, leaving an unexpended balance of nine thousand seven hundred and eight dollars four and one sixth cents: And whereas a further sum of twelve thousand dollars (part of the said loan of one hundred thousand dollars) was allocated to the purpose of the purchase of the necessary plant and vehicles to carry out the various works for which the loan was raised: And whereas the said sum of twelve thousand dollars was borrowed for a term of ten years only, but the sinking fund provided therefor was one per centum per annum and at the date of maturity (the first day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-two) amounted to one thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-four and one-sixth cents: And whereas at that date the sum of ten thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty and five-sixth cents of the loan of twelve thousand dollars had been expended, leaving an unexpended balance of one thousand and fifty-one dollars and thirty and five-sixths cents: And whereas the Thames County Council has utilized the said unexpended balance of one thousand and fifty-one dollars and thirty and five-sixths cents and the sum of nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-six and two-thirds cents of the aforesaid unexpended balance of nine thousand seven hundred and eight dollars four and one sixth cents to augment the sinking fund of one thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-four and one-sixth cents, and has repaid the said loan of twelve thousand dollars: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the legality of the aforesaid action, and it is desirable that the same should be expressly validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the Thames County Council in applying the unexpended portion of the said twelve thousand dollars loan and the sum of nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-six and two -thirds cents of the unexpended portion of the said forty two thousand dollars loan towards repayment of the said loan of twelve thousand dollars is hereby validated and confirmed.

Whereas the Levels County Council in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-two resolved to grant the sum of two hundred dollars as a compassionate allowance to the widow of the late Frank Edmund Whitehead, who was formerly Clerk to the said Council: And whereas the said Council has no legal authority to make such grant: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Levels County Council is hereby authorized to grant a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars as a compassionate allowance to the widow of the late Frank Edmund Whitehead.

(1) The Bay of Islands County Council (hereinafter called the Council) is hereby empowered and authorized to enter into and carry out an agreement upon such terms and conditions as may be specified in such agreement for the purchase, by instalments extending over a period of not more than ten years free of interest, of a strip of land of an average width of a chain upon which is situated the road through Tuwhakino Block and Sections 1, 8, 10, and 11, Block XVI, Omapere Survey District, at present giving access to the Ngawha Hot Springs.

(2) The Kaikohe Town Board (hereinafter called the Board) is hereby authorized to pay to the Council such annual sum of money as may be agreed upon between the Board and Council towards the purchase price payable by the Council under such agreement as aforesaid, and the amount so agreed upon shall be payable by the Board to the Council annually from the date of such agreement, and shall be a debt payable by the Board to the Council and recoverable in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

The Waipawa County Council may, in the manner prescribed by section twenty-two of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, pay out of the Takapau Riding Account instead of out of its General Account the interest and sinking fund charges in respect of the loan raised by that council known as the Rangitoto Road Loan.

Whereas it appears that the rates made and levied by the Marlborough County Council (hereinafter called the Council) for the years ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and nineteen hundred and thirty-three, respectively (hereinafter referred to as the said rates), cannot be legally recovered by reason of certain irregularities in connection therewith: And whereas demands in writing for payment of the said rates were made and delivered, a large percentage of the said rates have been paid by divers ratepayers, and it is advisable in the public interest and to prevent injustice to validate the said rates and to authorize the recovery of the balance thereof: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The rates made and levied or which the Council purported to make and levy in and for the above-mentioned years as appearing in the rate-books of the Council shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid from the date when the Council purported to make and levy the said rates respectively; the demands made for payment of the said rates shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid, and the said rates shall be recoverable by action notwithstanding the said irregularities or the omission of any conditions whatsoever precedent to the making or levying of the said rates or any irregularity, mistake, or omission in the form or manner of making or levying the same or otherwise; and valid demands upon all persons liable for the said rates shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly made and delivered in accordance with law.

Whereas as authorized by special resolution made on the sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, the Invercargill Borough Council raised a special loan of twenty three thousand four hundred dollars, known as the Unemployment Loan No 1 of $23,400, of which loan there was an unexpended balance of five thousand six hundred and ninety dollars on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight: And whereas as authorized by special resolution made on the nineteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, the Invercargill Borough Council raised a special loan of thirteen thousand four hundred dollars, known as the Unemployment Loan No 2 of $13,400, of which loan there was an unexpended balance of two thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight: And whereas no part of the said unexpended balances was required for the purposes for which the aforesaid special loans were respectively raised and the Invercargill City Council appropriated and expended such balances, amounting in all to the sum of eight thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars, upon public works for the relief of unemployment as follows: The cleaning of watermains, four thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars; the construction of a road to Oreti Beach, two thousand and ten dollars; the construction of a wall and groyne in the New River Estuary, seven hundred and ten dollars; the levelling of streets, eight hundred and eighteen dollars; the beautifying of Tyne Street, three hundred and forty eight dollars; and the reconstruction of Bluff-Invercargill Road, three hundred and ninety-two dollars: And whereas it is deemed expedient to validate the expenditure of the said unexpended balances: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the Invercargill City Council in appropriating and expending the aforesaid unexpended balances of the said special loans amounting in all to eight thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars on the before-mentioned public works is hereby validated.

Whereas the Wairoa Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) has paid to David Curtis, a former employee of the Council, a pension at the rate of two dollars a week as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-one: And whereas such payments were made without lawful authority: And whereas the Council desires to continue paying such pension during the lifetime of the said David Curtis: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

All payments heretofore made by the Council to David Curtis of a pension at the rate of two dollars a week shall be deemed to have been lawfully made, and the Council is hereby authorized to continue to pay to the said David Curtis during his lifetime a pension at the said rate.

Whereas the Westport Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) has obtained the consent of the Governor-General in Council under the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, to the raising of a loan of seven thousand and forty dollars (hereinafter referred to as the repayment loan) for the purpose of repaying certain authorized loans heretofore raised by the Council (hereinafter referred to as the authorized loans): And whereas one of such authorized loans has fallen due prior to the repayment loan moneys being available: And whereas the Council has paid certain moneys from its District Fund Account for the repayment of such authorized loan which has fallen due: And whereas the Council proposes to repay from the District Fund Account any further part or parts of the authorized loans falling due prior to the repayment loan moneys being available: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered—

• (a) To raise the amount of the repayment loan, or any part or parts thereof, notwithstanding the prior repayment in whole or in part of any of the authorized loans; and

• (b) To refund to its District Fund Account out of the repayment loan-moneys any sums expended from that Account (whether before or after the passing of this Act) in repayment in whole or in part of any of the authorized loans.

Whereas the Whangarei Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) has obtained the consent of the Governor-General in Council, under the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, to the raising of a loan of fourteen thousand dollars (hereinafter referred to as the repayment loan) for the purpose of repaying certain authorized loans previously raised by the Council (hereinafter referred to as the authorized loans): And whereas the authorized loans fell due prior to the repayment loan-moneys being available and were repaid by the Council from its District Fund Account: And whereas part of the repayment loan has already been raised, and the proceeds have been paid to the District Fund Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby, and shall be deemed to have been, authorized and empowered—

• (a) To raise the repayment loan, or any part or parts thereof, notwithstanding the prior repayment of the authorized loans; and

• (b) To apply the repayment loan-moneys or any part or parts thereof for the purpose of refunding to the District Fund Account the expenditure incurred in repaying the authorized loans.

Whereas by section twenty of the Local Legislation Act 1931, the Lower Hutt Borough Council was authorized to raise by special order a loan for the purposes of the construction of certain works required in terms of an agreement for the supply of water by the said Council to the Eastbourne Borough Council: And whereas, in anticipation of the raising of such loan, the Lower Hutt Borough Council borrowed certain moneys from its bankers by way of overdraft and paid such moneys out of its General Account for the purposes of the construction of such works, and is now desirous of raising a special loan of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of repaying such moneys to its bankers and recouping its General Account and also for the purpose of meeting any further cost and charges in connection with the construction of the said works: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Lower Hutt Borough Council is hereby authorized to raise a loan of ten thousand dollars in the manner set out in section twenty of the Local Legislation Act 1931, and to utilize it to such extent as may be necessary for the purpose of repaying the moneys so borrowed from its bankers and recouping the moneys so paid out of its General Account, and for payment of all other liabilities incurred or to be incurred in connection with the construction of the said works.

Whereas the Napier Borough Council was, by a poll taken on the twenty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, duly authorized by the rate-payers of the Borough of Napier to raise a loan of sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars for the purposes set out in the proposals submitted to the ratepayers: And whereas the said Council expended out of the said loan-moneys for the purchase of land the sum of thirty-four dollars in excess of the sum of two thousand dollars allocated in the said proposals to that purpose: And whereas the said Council expended out of the said loan-moneys for constructing roads and drains the sum of one thousand five hundred and eighty five dollars and thirty-five and five-sixths cents in excess of the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars allocated in the said proposals to that purpose: And whereas it is desired to validate such excess expenditure: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said payments of thirty-four dollars and one thousand five hundred and eighty five dollars and thirty-five and five-sixths cents made by the said Council out of the said loan-moneys in excess of the amounts allocated to the respective purposes hereinbefore mentioned are hereby validated.

Whereas the Taihape Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) was authorized by Order in Council, bearing date the twelfth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fifteenth day of the same month, to raise a loan of thirty one thousand four hundred dollars to be known as the Taihape Borough Public Works Construction and Improvements and Electric Light Extension Redemption Loan (1932): And whereas the said Council did on or about the first day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, raise under the authority of the said Order in Council a loan of sixteen thousand dollars (being a portion of the said loan of thirty one thousand four hundred dollars), and did for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges payable in respect of the said loan of sixteen thousand dollars make and levy a special rate of fifty five one hundred and ninety-seconds of a cent in the dollar upon the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Borough of Taihape: And whereas it is doubtful whether the Council now has power to make and levy further special rates for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges payable in respect of the balance of the said loan of thirty one thousand four hundred dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to make and levy such further special rate or rates over the whole or any portion of the rateable property in the Borough of Taihape as may be necessary to provide the interest, sinking fund, and other charges payable in respect of the balance of the said loan of thirty one thousand four hundred dollars.

Whereas the Karori Borough Council raised in the year nineteen hundred and seven a loan known as Loan Number 5.—Completion of Tramway Road Widening and Recreation Reserve—17,000 (hereinafter referred to as the said loan), which loan matured on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-one: And whereas by reason of the union of the City of Wellington and the Borough of Karori in the year nineteen hundred and twenty the said loan became thereafter payable by the Wellington City Council (hereinafter called the Council): And whereas on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, the sinking fund in respect of the said loan amounted to fifteen thousand six hundred dollars: And whereas it was wrongly recorded in the Karori Borough Council records that the said loan was repayable on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and the Council for that reason failed to obtain the necessary Order in Council under the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, authorizing the raising of a special loan of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars necessary to enable the Council to pay off the said loan and it was necessary to advance eighteen thousand four hundred dollars temporarily from the District Fund Account of the Council in order to pay off the said loan: And whereas such Order in Council cannot now be issued and it is advisable to authorize the Council to raise a special loan of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars for the purpose of repaying the said sum of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars advanced by the Council from its District Fund Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council may by special order and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, raise a special loan of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars, and may pay the proceeds of such special loan into its District Fund Account.

The Christchurch City Council is hereby authorized and shall be deemed always to have been authorized to contribute out of the accumulated profits of its Municipal Electricity Department to the fund known as the Mayor's Relief of Distress Fund a sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate seven thousand dollars.

The payments made by the Stratford Borough Council and the Taumarunui Borough Council of sums of one hundred dollars and forty dollars respectively to the committee in charge of the celebrations in respect of the opening of the Stratford-Okahukura Railway are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

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

(2) The Council is hereby authorized to apply the said public subscriptions and proceeds from the sale of booklets, and also to pay out of the General Account of the District Fund of the said Borough a sum not exceeding three hundred and ninety dollars, for the purpose of satisfying such liabilities.

Whereas by Order in Council made under the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, and the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, dated the twelfth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of the same month, the Green Island Borough Council was authorized to raise a loan of eleven thousand four hundred dollars (hereinafter referred to as the said loan), at a rate of interest not exceeding five per centum per annum, for the purpose of redeeming the outstanding liability in respect of two waterworks loans which matured on the seventeenth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-one: And whereas the sum of seven thousand dollars of the said loan was raised by the issue of debentures which inadvertently provided for the payment of interest at the rate of five and one-quarter per centum per annum: And whereas in anticipation of raising the said loan and for the purpose of assisting in the repayment of the maturing loans the Council advanced and paid out of its District Fund Account the sum of five thousand four hundred dollars, intending subsequently to repay such sum to the District Fund Account out of the proceeds of the said loan: And whereas the sum of five thousand four hundred dollars has been so repaid to the District Fund Account: And whereas the Council could not lawfully use the proceeds of the said loan for the purpose of recouping the District Fund Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, or any other Act the Council shall be deemed to have had lawful authority to raise the said sum of seven thousand dollars of the said loan by the issue of debentures bearing interest at the rate of five and one-quarter per centum per annum, and to pay the sum of five thousand four hundred dollars from the proceeds of the said loan to the District Fund Account.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act or in any Order in Council relating to the said loans the Wellington City Council is hereby authorized to expend the said unexpended balances of the said loans for all or any of the following purposes:—

• (a) Paving and sealing other streets:

• (b) Widening or improving the formation of streets for which paving or other surface-sealing works are authorized by either of the said loans, and additional paving and surface-sealing on any street the formation of which is so widened.

(2) No unexpended balances of either of the said loans shall be expended as provided by this section unless and until authority in that behalf is given by the Local Government Loans Board.

(3) The provisions of subsections two to seven of section forty-seven of the Finance Act 1929 Repealed, shall apply to every application by the Council for authority as aforesaid, and the Local Government Loans Board may in its discretion give such authority either as to the whole or to any part of any proposal submitted to it, and either unconditionally or subject to such terms, conditions, and stipulations as it thinks fit to impose.

Whereas the Birkenhead Borough Council was duly authorized by a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Birkenhead, taken on the twenty-eighth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, to raise, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, for the purpose of augmenting and extending water reticulation, a special loan of ten thousand four hundred and sixty dollars, to be secured upon a special annually recurring rate of ninety-five seven hundred and sixty-eighths of a cent in the dollar on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the borough: And whereas the proceedings subsequently taken by the said Council in connection with the raising of the said loan were irregular or defective and did not comply with the requirements of law in that the whole amount of the loan was raised by the issue of debentures before the making of the special rate for the purpose of securing the repayment of the said loan and interest thereon: And whereas such special rate has since been made and levied by resolution of the Council gazetted under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, and in accordance with the said poll of ratepayers: And whereas the said Borough Council has in the interval between the raising of such loan and the actual making of such rate purported to levy and demand the amount of such special rate as part of its consolidated special rate for each rating period, and the majority of ratepayers in the borough have paid such special rate accordingly: And whereas it is expedient to validate the making and levying of the said special rate and to make the same an effective security for the debentures issued in respect of such loan: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The proceedings in connection with the said loan of ten thousand four hundred and sixty dollars are hereby validated, and the said special rate shall for all purposes be deemed to have been duly made on the nineteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, being a date prior to the issue of the said debentures.

Whereas the Hamilton Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as the Council) has obtained the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board to the raising of the following three loans (hereinafter referred to as the repayment loans)—(a) The Drainage and Library Renewal $103,000 loan 1932, for the purpose of repaying the outstanding liability in respect of two special drainage loans of twenty thousand dollars and eighty eight thousand eight hundred dollars, which matured respectively on the first day of February and the first day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two; and a special loan of eight thousand dollars for library purposes, which matured on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-two; (b) the Gasworks Renewal $6,200 loan 1932, for the purpose of repaying the outstanding liability in respect of a special loan of eight thousand dollars for the extension of the gasworks of the borough, which matured on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-two; and (c) the Whatawhata Bridge Renewal $1,800 loan 1932, for the purpose of repaying the outstanding liability in respect of a special loan of three thousand two hundred dollars for the rebuilding of the Whatawhata Bridge, which matured on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-two: And whereas, pending the raising of the repayment loans, the Council was compelled to advance out of the District Fund Account the sums of two thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, six hundred and ten dollars, and one thousand and six hundred dollars for the purpose of redeeming certain debentures maturing as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered—

• (a) To raise the repayment loans, or any part or parts thereof, notwithstanding the prior repayment in whole or in part of the aforesaid special loans; and

• (b) To apply the repayment loan-moneys, or any part or parts thereof, for the purpose of refunding to the District Fund Account the expenditure incurred in repaying in whole or in part the aforesaid special loans.

In addition to any other lawful payments, the Lower Hutt Borough Council is hereby authorized to contribute out of its general fund to the Lower Hutt Relief Committee, appointed under the Unemployment Act 1930 Repealed, a sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate one thousand dollars.

(1) Notwithstanding that the said right of way is the only access to the said lands so leased and is sixty-six feet in width, the said lease (including the said right of way) is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully granted, and it shall, together with all plans and other documents requisite or ancillary thereto be accepted for registration and be registered accordingly by the District Land Registrar at Dunedin:

Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to render such right of way a public road or street.

(2) The lands comprised in the said lease shall be held by the said University free of all existing and future rates, taxes, duties, impositions, outgoings, and burdens whatsoever, and to give effect to this provision (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing words) the covenant by the Corporation contained in the said lease to pay such rates and other burdens as aforesaid and to indemnify the University in respect thereof is hereby declared to be valid and binding in all respects and shall at all times have full force and effect according to the tenor thereof.

(3) The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to any renewed lease granted in pursuance of the provisions in that behalf contained in the said lease.

(4) The provisions of this section are in addition to any other statutory powers or authorities now or hereafter existing relating to the said lease or any renewal thereof.

Whereas the Hamilton Traffic Bridge is under the jurisdiction of the Hamilton Borough Council: And whereas it will shortly become necessary for the said Council to expend a large sum of money in effecting necessary repairs to the said bridge: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Hamilton Borough Council may, without taking the steps described in sections nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, but subject to the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, raise a special loan under the said Local Bodies' Loans Act for the purpose of effecting the necessary repairs to the said Hamilton Traffic Bridge.

(1) In addition to the power contained in section four of the Thames Borough Commissioner Act 1932, to appoint a Thames Borough Commissioner, the Governor-General in Council may appoint a fit person to be the Deputy Thames Borough Commissioner (hereinafter referred to as the Deputy Commissioner).

(2) Any such appointment may be made for such period as the Governor-General in Council may specify either in the Order in Council making the appointment or in a subsequent Order.

(3) Subject to the last preceding subsection, the Deputy Commissioner shall be appointed in the same manner, and be subject to the same restrictions, conditions, and provisions as the Commissioner.

(4) The Deputy Commissioner shall act when there is any vacancy in the office of Commissioner or when the Commissioner is unable to Act and while so acting shall be deemed to be the Commissioner. The fact that the Deputy Commissioner exercises any power or function of the Commissioner shall be conclusive evidence of his authority so to do, and no person shall be concerned to inquire whether or not the occasion for his so doing has arisen or has ceased.

(5) The power conferred by the said section four on the Town Clerk, or such other person as the Minister appoints, to act as Commissioner when there is any vacancy in the office of Commissioner shall be exercisable only when there is no person holding the office of Deputy Commissioner.

(6) The Deputy Commissioner shall be paid such remuneration, allowances, and expenses for acting in the place of the Commissioner as are fixed from time to time by the Governor-General in Council. The provisions of subsection one of section eighteen of the Thames Borough Commissioner Act 1932, shall apply to all payments under this subsection.

All costs and expenses incurred by or on behalf of the committee representing certain holders of debentures issued by the Thames Borough Council, and known as the Loans Creditors Committee, in and incidental to the promoting of the Thames Borough Commissioner Act 1932, and the appointment of the Thames Borough Commissioner, shall be paid by the Thames Borough Commissioner, and charged against the General Account kept by him.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section fifty-two of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act 1928, any moneys not exceeding the sum of four thousand dollars held upon trust by the Commissioners of the Depreciation Fund in connection with the electricity undertaking of the Borough of Thames may be applied towards the cost of completing the changing of the electricity reticulation of that borough from direct current to alternating current.

(2) The Depreciation Fund Commissioners, on the demand of the Thames Borough Commissioner, shall forthwith pay to him for application to the purpose aforesaid any amount or amounts not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of four thousand dollars. The Depreciation Fund Commissioners shall not be obliged to see to the application of any moneys so paid by them.

(3) The provisions of sections fifty-three to fifty-five of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act 1928, shall not apply with respect to any demand made by the Thames Borough Commissioner for any sum or sums of money for the purpose aforesaid.

It shall not be deemed to have been necessary for the Thames Borough Council to pay to the Sinking Fund Commissioners of the several loans of the Borough of Thames any instalments of sinking fund payments that became due during the interest year which commenced on the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one.

(1) The Whangarei Borough Council may by special order under section one hundred and eighty-six of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, declare the right-of-way known as Mansfield Terrace, as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Auckland numbered 27101 and thereon coloured blue and yellow, to be a public street, notwithstanding that the said right-of-way does not comply with the provisions of the said section; and upon the passing of such special order the said right-of-way shall become a street vested as such in the Corporation of the Borough of Whangarei.

(2) No building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting either side of the said street within a distance of thirty-three feet from the middle-line of the said street:

Provided that this condition shall not apply to the land contained in certificate of title, Volume 522, folio 151, being part Allotment 1, Parish of Whangarei, or to the land contained in certificate of title, Volume 522, folio 268, being Lot 9.

Whereas on or about the first day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, the South Rakaia Road Board (hereinafter called the Board) paid to the Todd Motor Company, Limited, of Christchurch, motor dealers (hereinafter called the company), the sum of three hundred dollars as a deposit on the purchase by Arthur James McPherson, then Clerk of the Board, of a motor-car, which was required by him in the execution of his official duties: And whereas no agreement was made between the Board and the said Arthur James McPherson as to the repayment of the said sum of three hundred dollars and no repayments were made to the Board and no other payments were made by any person to the company in respect of such purchase: And whereas the said motor-car was seized by the company when the said Arthur James McPherson ceased to be an employee of the Board in or about the month of April, nineteen hundred and thirty: And whereas the members of the Board were unaware that such expenditure was unlawful, but have since refunded to the Road Board Fund the sum of fifty dollars: And whereas it is desirable to validate the expenditure of the balance of two hundred and fifty dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payment by the Board of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, being part of the said deposit paid to the company as aforesaid, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made, and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Revenues Act 1926, or any other Act such expenditure of the said sum shall not at any time operate or be deemed heretofore to have operated to render the members of the Board or any of them liable to be surcharged with the amount thereof.

It shall be deemed to have been lawful for the Pleasant Point Town Board to expend, out of the Pleasant Point Town Buildings Loan 1928, of six thousand five hundred dollars and fifty cents, the sum of one hundred dollars and fifty cents for the purpose of providing furniture and furnishings for the town buildings.

(1) The Governor-General may by Proclamation abolish the Rangataua Town District, dissolve the Board thereof, and include in the County of Waimarino the area comprising the Rangataua Town District prior to such abolition.

(2) Upon the exercise by the Governor-General of the powers hereinbefore conferred, the provisions of section thirty-two of the Counties Act 1920, shall apply in all respects as if the Rangataua Town District had been merged in the County of Waimarino under that Act.

The Bluff Harbour Board is hereby empowered to pay out of its Harbour Fund the sum of three hundred and thirty seven dollars and fifty cents as a compassionate allowance to Amelia Isabella Wishart, of Bluff, the widow of John Jabez Hay Wishart, deceased, late tug-engineer of the said Board.

(1) The Nelson Harbour Board is hereby authorized to make and levy special rates on the rateable property in the Nelson Harbour District as security for the payment of the said special loans of twenty four thousand dollars and seventy two thousand dollars and the interest, sinking fund, and other charges thereon respectively.

(2) All proceedings heretofore taken by the Nelson Harbour Board in connection with the said special loans of twenty four thousand dollars and seventy two thousand dollars respectively, and the making and levying of the special rates as security aforesaid, are hereby validated, and neither the validity nor the sufficiency of the proceedings nor the validity of the said special rates already made and levied as aforesaid shall be questioned upon any ground whatever.

(3) The provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, shall apply and be deemed always to have applied to the aforesaid special loans of twenty four thousand dollars and seventy two thousand dollars and to the Nelson Harbour Board as if the Nelson Harbour Board were a local authority within the meaning of that Act.

(4) This section shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1923.

Whereas the Wairoa Harbour Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board), under the authority conferred by the Wairoa Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act 1909, and the Wairoa Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act 1918, borrowed sums amounting in the aggregate to one hundred and seventy thousand dollars for harbour-works for the Harbour of Wairoa, and under the authority conferred by the Wairoa Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act 1919, borrowed the sum of sixty-four thousand dollars for harbour-works for the Harbour of Waikokopu: And whereas special rates have been made and levied as security for the moneys so borrowed, and the office, clerical, legal, and other expenses incurred by the Board in collecting such rates have prior to the financial year ended the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, been met out of the General Cash Account of the Board: And whereas by section fifty-six of the Local Legislation Act 1928, and by section thirty-eight of the Local Legislation Act 1929, the Board was authorized and empowered to pay out of the respective interest accounts kept in respect of each of the said loans such expenses incurred for the period ended on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-one: And whereas it is desirable that such authority be extended for the period of three financial years ending on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-four: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board may in respect of each of the financial years during the period ending on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, transfer to its General Cash Account from any other account kept by it in respect of the proceeds of any special rates made and levied as aforesaid such sums as in the opinion of the Audit Office represent the proportionate part attributable to such other account of the office, clerical, legal, and other expenses of the Board of any nature whatsoever in respect of the levying, collecting, and recovery of such special rates.

Whereas by agreement bearing date the first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, His Majesty the King, acting in pursuance of section sixteen of the Bay of Islands Harbour Act 1920, and its amendments, sold to the Bay of Islands Harbour Board all that parcel of land, containing four acres one rood twenty-seven and nine-tenths perches, being that portion of the Railway Reserve at Opua called Section 36 of Block V of the Russell Survey District, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 408, folio 281, Auckland Registry: And whereas portions of the said land were subject to certain leases: And whereas it is expedient that the Board should have power to lease such portions of the said land as it should think fit: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board is hereby empowered to lease, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Bodies' Leases Act 1908, any part of the said land not required for harbour works.

Whereas in anticipation of raising a special loan of six thousand dollars to be known as the Reticulation Loan (1930) for the purpose of extending the reticulation in the Golden Bay Electric-power District, the Golden Bay Electric-power Board expended the sum of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and sixteen and two-thirds cents dollars out of its Power Fund towards the purposes for which the said special loan was to be raised, and upon obtaining authority for and raising the said special loan refunded the said sum to its Power Fund out of the proceeds of the special loan: And whereas although such refund was made in good faith, it was in contravention of the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, and it is desirable to validate it: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The refund by the said Board of the said sum of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and sixteen and two-thirds cents dollars to its Power Fund out of the said Reticulation Loan (1930) is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, or in section seventy of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, it shall be lawful for the Malvern Electric-power Board to borrow moneys from the bankers by way of overdraft or from any other person or persons, but so that the amount owing under this section from time to time (exclusive of moneys borrowed under section fifty-three of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925) shall not exceed—

• (a) At the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, six per centum of its aggregate capital expenditure as at that date;

• (b) At the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, four per centum of its aggregate capital expenditure as at that date; and

• (c) At the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, two per centum of its aggregate capital expenditure as at that date.

(2) In every financial year after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the powers of the said Board to borrow by way of bank overdraft, or otherwise than under section fifty-three of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, shall be limited to the powers conferred by section three of the Local Bodies Finance Act 1921-22.

(3) The action of the Board in borrowing and owing moneys in excess of the limits prescribed by section seventy of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, in respect to its overdraft for the financial year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, is hereby validated.

(1) It shall not be necessary for the Malvern Electric-power Board in any financial year prior to that beginning on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six (hereinafter referred to as the said financial year), to make any payment to the Depreciation Fund Commissioners as provided by section twenty-two of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act 1927, in respect of the several amounts credited and to be credited in each financial year to the Depreciation Fund of the said Board.

(2) The said Board shall pay to the Depreciation Fund Commissioners the total amount remaining unpaid under the said section as at the beginning of the said financial year either in the said financial year, or by successive annual instalments, each being equal to at least one-fourteenth of such total amount, payable respectively in each financial year until such total amount is paid, commencing in the said financial year.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, or in any other Act the moneys borrowed and owed by the Board by way of overdraft in the financial years ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and nineteen hundred and thirty-two, respectively, in excess of the limits allowed by law are hereby declared to have been lawfully borrowed and owed.

(2) The said sum of seven thousand two hundred dollars owing by the Board as aforesaid shall not be taken into account in determining the amount that may be borrowed and owed by the Board by way of overdraft at any time before the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven:

Provided that the Board shall repay the said sum of seven thousand two hundred dollars not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and shall in the meantime repay in each financial year, commencing in the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, such part of the said sum of seven thousand two hundred dollars, being not less than one thousand dollars, as the Local Government Loans Board fixes for that financial year.

(3) In every financial year after the said thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the powers of the Board to borrow and to owe by way of overdraft, or otherwise than under section fifty-three of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, shall be limited to the powers conferred by section three of the said Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22.

Whereas the Kahutara River Board (hereinafter called the Board) was, by a consent of ratepayers bearing date the twenty-eight day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, authorized to raise a loan of five thousand two hundred dollars for the purpose of completing the erection of certain stop-banks within the district of the Board: And whereas in pursuance of such consent the Board duly raised such loan under the name of the Stop-bank Supplementary Loan of $5,200: And whereas prior to the date of obtaining such consent of ratepayers the Board incurred expenditure in the carrying-out of urgent restoration work to the extent of one thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-one and two thirds cents in connection with the work for the completion of which such loan was raised: And whereas the said sum of one thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-one and two thirds cents was subsequently paid in good faith out of the loan moneys: And whereas it is expedient that such expenditure 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 raising of the said loan in respect of the expenditure already incurred by the Board is hereby validated, and the said sum of one thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-one and two thirds cents is hereby declared to have been lawfully expended by the Board and to have been lawfully paid out of the said loan-moneys.

The distribution by the Jed River Drainage Board of its surplus funds amongst the ratepayers of the Jed River Drainage District is hereby validated.

The expenditure by the Waimakariri River Trust of a sum of sixty-two dollars forty-four and one sixth cents during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, in connection with the opening of a new bridge is hereby validated, and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

(1) The Kaipara River Board may, without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, but subject to the provisions of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, raise a special loan under the said Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, not exceeding the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, for the following purposes, namely:—

• (a) Paying legal, engineering, and surveying costs and charges heretofore incurred by the Board in connection with the constitution of the Kaipara River District:

• (b) Paying fees and expenses of classifiers, and legal, engineering, and surveying costs and charges so incurred in connection with the classification for rating purposes of lands within the said district:

• (c) Paying costs so incurred in respect of a Commission relative to a petition for the alteration of the boundaries of the said district, including legal, engineering, and surveying costs and charges in connection with such petition:

• (d) Paying Court and legal costs and charges so incurred on account of test cases respecting rates made by the Board:

• (e) Paying engineering and surveying costs so incurred in connection with river surveys:

• (f) Paying the expenses of raising the loan.

(2) The Board may out of the proceeds of the said loan refund to its General Account any expenditure heretofore or hereafter paid out of that account for any of the aforesaid purposes.

(3) Any moneys heretofore or hereafter paid by the Board out of its General Account for any of the purposes for which the said loan may be raised shall not be taken into account in determining the limits of the powers of the Board to borrow and to owe moneys by way of overdraft pursuant to section three of the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921-22, at any time before the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-four.

(4) All rates made and levied by the Board during the financial year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, are hereby declared to be null and void, and the Board shall forthwith on the raising of the said loan of two thousand two hundred dollars refund to any person any sum already paid by him on account of his liability in respect of such rates.

On the Manawatu-Oroua River Board proving to the satisfaction of the Controller and Auditor-General that all liabilities in respect of which the Board made and levied an administrative rate for the financial year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, are adequately provided for, that Board may by special order remit any part not exceeding one-half of such rate.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Cook and Wairoa Hospital Boards may, for the purpose of repairing any damage caused by the earthquake which occurred in their districts on the sixteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, borrow moneys by way of bank overdraft or otherwise in excess of the limits imposed by section sixty of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1926, or other provisions applicable generally to Hospital Boards:

Provided that the total amount owing at the end of any financial year shall not exceed such amount as is sanctioned by the Local Government Loans Board.

(2) With respect to any application for such sanction the Local Government Loans Board shall have the same powers of investigation as are conferred on it in respect of applications made to it under the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926. The Board may, if it grants its sanction, impose such conditions as it thinks fit for the repayment of any amount borrowed in excess of the limits imposed as aforesaid.

(3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the sixteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-two.

All local authorities mentioned hereunder are hereby authorized and empowered to pay to the New Zealand Free Ambulance Transport Service (Wellington Branch), Incorporated, in the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, such sums as they think fit, not exceeding in any case the respective amounts hereinafter specified—namely, the Lower Hutt Borough Council, four hundred dollars; the Petone Borough Council, four hundred and twenty dollars; the Upper Hutt Borough Council, two hundred dollars; the Eastbourne Borough Council, one hundred dollars; the Hutt County Council, three hundred dollars; the Makara County Council, one hundred and seventy-two dollars; the Johnsonville Town Board, fifty-four dollars; the Wellington Harbour Board, six hundred dollars; and the Wellington Hospital Board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

(1) The said agreement shall be valid and effectual for all purposes whatever, and the financial adjustment thereby made shall be final and conclusive as between the parties thereto.

(2) For the purpose of enabling the Otaki Borough Council to raise a loan to repay the balance owing to the Public Trustee of No 7 Sewerage Loan of $28,000, which matured on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, the rating powers of the Borough Council in respect of such repayment loan shall extend to and the rate to be made and levied in respect thereof may be made and levied over the same area as that over which the rate in respect of the original loan was made and levied, notwithstanding that part of such area is no longer within the boundaries of the borough.

(3) The powers conferred by the last preceding subsection shall extend and apply to any subsequent repayment loan which may from time to time be raised for the purpose of repaying any repayment loan until the whole of the liabilities in respect of the said No 7 Sewerage Loan of $28,000 and all charges thereon have been fully paid.

Whereas the Oaonui Irrigation Board on the thirteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty, paid to its Chairman the sum of forty dollars as an honorarium for his services, and on the thirtieth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, paid him the sum of twenty dollars for the same purpose, such payments being without authority of law: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act the payment of both of the said sums, amounting in all to sixty dollars, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made, and the said Chairman is hereby declared to have been lawfully entitled to receive the same.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Revenues Act 1926, or any other Act the payment from the funds of the Flaxbourne Public Cemetery Trustees during the financial year ended the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, of the sum of four dollars seventy cents to William James McIsaac, a trustee of the above-mentioned cemetery, for certain materials supplied for fencing purposes, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made and received.