Whereas under a deed of trust bearing date the nineteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and made between the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Southland of the one part, and the Public Trustee of the other part, moneys have from time to time been paid by the Southland County Council (hereinafter called the Council) to the Public Trustee to be held by him upon trust for the Council subject to the condition that on the passing of any statutory enactment empowering the Council to create a renewal fund the said moneys with interest thereon should upon the terms set out in the said deed be paid to the Council: And whereas, although no such statutory enactment has been passed, doubt has arisen as to the validity of the said deed and, the Council being in need of the moneys held by the Public Trustee as aforesaid, it is desirable that the Public Trustee should be empowered to pay all moneys held by him under the said deed to the Council: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Public Trustee is hereby authorized and empowered to pay to the Council all moneys held by him under the said deed of trust notwithstanding any provision of the said deed to the contrary.

Whereas in terms of sections thirty-four and thirty-five of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, the Piako County Council (hereinafter referred to as the Council) on the twentieth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, hypothecated to the Bank of New Zealand certain debentures of the Peeks Road Loan, 1929, of $4,000, the Valley Road Loan, 1929, of $6,000, and the Goulds Road Loan, 1930, of $2,000, each for two hundred dollars, and all bearing interest at five and three-quarters per centum per annum: And whereas, with the consent of the Council, but without default on the part of the Council to warrant sales under the respective deeds of hypothecation, the bank sold three debentures of the Peeks Road loan numbered eighteen to twenty inclusive, three debentures of the Valley Road loan numbered thirteen to fifteen inclusive, and five debentures of the Goulds Road loan numbered six to ten inclusive: And whereas the said eleven debentures with their relative coupons for interest at the rate of five and three-quarters per centum per annum were issued to the public and their proceeds credited to the respective loan accounts: And whereas the said rate of interest exceeded the rate prescribed at the time of the said issue by the Local Authorities' Loans (Rates of Interest) Act 1931: And whereas it is expedient to validate the said issue: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said debentures and coupons shall be deemed to have been lawfully issued, but shall be subject to the reduction in the rate of interest effected by the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act 1932-33.

The Wairewa County Council is hereby empowered to pay the sum of eighty dollars out of its General Account to the Public Trustee as administrator of the estate of William Robert Leeder, deceased, formerly an employee of the said Council, as a compassionate allowance for the benefit of the next-of-kin of the said William Robert Leeder.

Whereas the Great Barrier Island County Council (hereinafter called the Council), in anticipation of revenue, temporarily advanced certain moneys out of its Wharf Account to the General Fund of the Council: And whereas there is now due by the General Fund to the Wharf Account the sum of eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-five and five-sixths cents, being the balance of the said moneys so advanced: And whereas it is expedient that the Council should be empowered to refund such balance to the Wharf Account in instalments as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to refund to the Wharf Account from the General Account the said balance of eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-five and five-sixths cents in annual instalments of not less than two hundred dollars each, but so that the whole of such amount shall be refunded on or before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Whereas the Cook County Council (hereinafter called the Council) during the years nineteen hundred and twenty-eight to nineteen hundred and thirty-one paid out of the Cook County Council Special Loan of $306,000 Account (hereinafter referred to as the Special Loan Account) the sum of three thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars towards the cost of the Te Aria Bridge: And whereas such payment was made in anticipation of the raising by the Council of the Main Highways Bridges Loan of the Cook County and with the intention upon the raising of that loan of refunding the said sum to the Special Loan Account: And whereas the Main Highways Bridges Loan has been raised by the Council: And whereas it is desirable that the Council should be authorized to make such refund: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby empowered to transfer the sum of three thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars from the Main Highways Bridges Loan Account to the Special Loan Account.

The Christchurch City Council is hereby authorized and empowered to apply the whole or any part of the sum of four hundred dollars, being the proceeds of the sale of that parcel of land containing thirty-two perches, being part Rural Section 304, North Road, Papanui (being the site of the old Papanui Library), which sum is held in trust for the purchase of land for library purposes, in or towards the cost of additions or improvements to the hall under the control of the Committee of Management constituted under the Papanui Memorial Hall Management Act 1928, and known as the Papanui Memorial Hall, for the purposes of providing improved accommodation for the library now in that hall.

Section forty-six of the Local Legislation Act 1928, is hereby repealed.

(1) The Corporation is hereby directed and empowered to pay to the said Edward Morris, the younger, the said sum of twelve thousand six hundred dollars.

(2) The Corporation is hereby freed and discharged from all actions, suits, proceedings, claims, and demands in respect of the taking of the said piece of land.

(3) The said Edward Morris, the younger, shall pay all rates, land-tax, insurance premiums, and all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the said land and any buildings erected thereon (including interest at the rate of six and one-half per centum per annum on the said sum of four thousand four hundred dollars) up to the date of the payment by the Corporation to the said Edward Morris, the younger, of the said sum of twelve thousand six hundred dollars (hereinafter referred to as the date of settlement).

(4) The amount of rates, insurance premiums, and other outgoings in respect of the said land shall be apportioned at the date of settlement, and the amounts payable by and to the Corporation shall be set one against the other.

(5) As from the date of settlement, the said Edward Morris, the younger, shall be a tenant of the Corporation in respect of the said land at a monthly rental of eighty-five dollars, payable on the last day of each month of the tenancy. The tenancy may be determined by one month's notice in writing from either the Corporation or the said Edward Morris, the younger, and during the tenancy the Corporation shall pay all rates and insurance premiums becoming payable in respect of the said land.

Section six of the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Act 1932, as amended by section seven of the Wellington City Empowering and Special Rates Consolidation Amendment Act 1933, is hereby further amended by repealing the proviso thereto.

Whereas the Christchurch City Council (hereinafter called the Council) acting as the collecting-agent for the Christchurch Drainage Board (hereinafter called the Board) was authorized and required to collect the sum of six thousand three hundred and twenty dollars on account of a rate made in respect of the annual charges of the Board for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, including charges on a special loan of fifty thousand dollars raised by the Board: And whereas by an error in its rate-demands the Council demanded only six hundred and thirty-two dollars of the said sum of six thousand three hundred and twenty dollars, but paid the amount of the deficiency—five thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars—to the Board out of its General Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council shall for all purposes be deemed to have been lawfully empowered to advance to the Board on account of rates collected for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the said sum of five thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars, and to recover the amount so advanced by increasing its rate-demands for the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, sufficiently to raise the said sum, notwithstanding that such increase may involve the collection of a special rate greater than the special rate pledged as security for the said loan.

Whereas the Palmerston North City Council (hereinafter called the Council) was duly authorized to raise a loan of twelve thousand dollars for the purpose of providing the Council's proportion of the cost of the reconstruction of the Fitzherbert Bridge (including approaches thereto) over the Manawatu River on the Palmerston North - Levin Main Highway in the County of Kairanga: And whereas prior to authority being obtained for the raising of such loan the sum of four thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-five and five-sixths cents was paid by the Council from its General Account to the contractors in charge of such work as part of its proportion of the costs thereof: And whereas payment has since been made into the General Account from the loan-moneys raised of the moneys so paid to the contractors: And whereas it is desirable to validate the payment so made into the General Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payment by the Council into its General Account of the sum of four thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-five and five-sixths cents from the said loan of twelve thousand dollars is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act or in any Order in Council relating to the said loan, the Council is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of this section, to apply the said unexpended balance of seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and thirteen and one third cents—firstly, in transferring to that part of the loan raised for the purpose of carrying out works on Trafalgar Park as aforesaid the said sum of two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-two and a half cents; secondly, in completing on the said land now known as Pioneers' Park the works for which the respective part of the said loan was raised as aforesaid; and thirdly, in carrying out any other public work which may be authorized by the Local Government Loans Board pursuant to an application by the Council as hereinafter provided.

(2) No part of the said sum of seven hundred and twenty-one dollars thirteen and one third cents shall be expended or applied by the Council as hereinbefore provided unless and until authority in that behalf has been given by the Local Government Loans Board.

(3) The provisions of subsections two to seven of section forty-seven of the Finance Act 1929, shall apply to every application made 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 any part of the proposal submitted to it and either unconditionally or subject to such terms, conditions, and stipulations as it may think fit to impose.

The expenditure by the Newmarket Borough Council out of its funds of the sum of two hundred dollars in connection with the expenses of the celebrations commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the date of the Proclamation constituting the Borough of Newmarket is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas by section five of the Local Authorities Empowering (Aviation Encouragement) Act 1929, the Stratford Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) was authorized to acquire land for the establishment of an aerodrome, and pursuant to that authority the Council purchased all that piece of land containing two hundred and one acres two roods seven perches, more or less, being Allotment 1 on Deposited Plan Number 2506, part of Section 104, Block II, Ngaire Survey District, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 116, folio 65, Taranaki Registry: And whereas, before the steps necessary to empower the Council to raise a loan for such a purpose could be taken, it became necessary to make a payment of two thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty-nine and one-sixth cents to enable the Council to exercise an option to purchase the said land: And whereas such payment was advanced by the Council out of its General Account: And whereas the Council is desirous of raising a loan for the purpose of repaying to the General Account part of the moneys advanced thereout as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, but without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, a sum not exceeding two thousand eight hundred dollars, on the security of a special rate over all rateable property within the Borough of Stratford, and to apply the proceeds of such loan in refunding to the General Account part of the moneys advanced thereout on account of the purchase of the said land.

The expenditure by the Napier Borough Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, of—firstly, the sum of one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-three and a third cents, being expenses incurred in connection with the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of the Borough of Napier; and secondly, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, being a grant to the Napier Social Service Committee, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Foxton Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council), under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, borrowed certain sums from the State Advances Superintendent and issued debentures securing the payment of the said sums and interest thereon: And whereas the Council intends pursuant to the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act 1932-33, to convert the existing securities into new securities: And whereas interest due and to accrue due up to the proposed date of conversion in respect of the amounts borrowed amounts to a total sum of four thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and fifty and five-sixth cents: And whereas the Council has agreed with the lenders that the said sum of four thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and fifty and five-sixth cents shall be capitalized and form part of the principal sum to be secured by the new securities: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered on the said conversion to include in the principal sum secured by the new securities the said sum of four thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and fifty and five-sixth cents, and to issue new securities accordingly.

(1) It shall be lawful for the trustees to transfer the said land by way of gift to the Corporation upon the execution by the Eltham Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) of a deed of trust containing such terms and conditions as the trustees shall deem reasonable for the purpose of securing the fulfilment of the trusts set out in the deed of trust dated the thirtieth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and particularly the following:—

• (a) That while a sub-branch or branch of the Society is in existence in the Borough of Eltham, the Council shall at all times permit a specified portion or portions of any building or buildings on the said land to be used by the Society free of charge for all or any of the purposes of the Society:

• (b) That the remaining portion or portions of any such building or buildings shall be used as a women's rest-room:

• (c) That, subject to the foregoing, the said land shall be under the control and management of the Council, which shall be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance thereof.

(2) The Council in accepting the said land on behalf of the Corporation shall be deemed to have accepted such land subject to the terms and conditions so fixed by the trustees as contained in the deed of trust executed by the Council, and such terms and conditions shall be binding on the Corporation and the Council, according to the tenor thereof.

(3) On the transfer as aforesaid of the said land to the Corporation the said land shall be deemed to be freed and for ever discharged from all or any of the trusts created or intended to be created by the deed of trust dated the thirtieth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and the trustees shall be deemed to be relieved fully of their obligations under that deed of trust.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the Public Works Act 1928, or any other Act, the Governor-General, on the application of the Wellington City Council, may by Order in Council authorize the Council to permit the laying-out as a street of the land described in subsection three of this section, and upon the issue of such Order in Council the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-five of the Public Works Act 1928, shall apply to the adjoining land as if such street so authorized had been authorized pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred and ninety of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933.

(2) Any Order in Council issued by the Governor-General pursuant to the provisions of this section may be either absolute or subject to such conditions with respect to the building-line as may be therein imposed. If any such condition is imposed the provisions of subsection three of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works Act 1928, shall apply, with the necessary modifications, as in the case of an Order in Council made under the authority of that section.

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

All that area of land, being part of Lot 5 on Deeds Plan 494 and part Lots 4 and 5 on Deposited Plan 8405, being part of Section 36, Karori Registration District, Block VI, Port Nicholson Survey District, containing an area of twenty-seven perches and five-hundredths of a perch, bounded as follows: commencing from a point on the eastern side of Donald Street, distant in a south-easterly direction from the south-eastern corner of the intersection of Donald Street and Gipps Street along the eastern boundary of Donald Street 286.70 links on a bearing of 158° 42′ 30″ and 30.05 links on a bearing of 159° 56′ 12″ to the point of commencement; thence in a south-easterly direction on a bearing of 114° 41′ for a distance of 21.33 links; thence generally in a north-easterly direction 69° 54′ 30″, 136.36 links, 56° 18′, 25.75 links, 33° 1′, 50.48 links, 63° 9′ 10″, 25.76 links, and 72° 46′ 30″, 60.61 links; thence in a south-easterly direction 159° 54′ 30″ for a distance of 59.18 links; thence generally in a south-westerly direction 249° 54′ 30″, 25.76 links, 224° 11′ 20″, 38.46 links, 238° 37′ 40″, 30.37 links, and 249° 54′ 30″, 212.84 links; thence in a north-westerly direction 339° 56′ 12″ for a distance of 60.48 links to the point of commencement: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, District Lands and Survey Department, at Wellington, marked SO 332/52, and thereon coloured blue, yellow, and red.

(1) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to amend the said farm-land roll for the borough by including therein the properties specified in the Schedule to this Act, with the particulars specified in that Schedule.

(2) When the farm-land roll has been so amended it shall be signed by two members of the Council, and all properties so included in the farm-land roll shall be deemed to have been included therein on and from the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-five.

(3) The Council may, if it thinks fit, but not later than the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, pay out of its District Fund or remit to any ratepayer whose name appears in the Schedule to this Act a sum equal to twelve and one-half per centum of the total amount of rates made and levied by the Council on its own account for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, in respect of the property of such ratepayer specified in the said Schedule.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act it shall be and be deemed to have been lawful for the Green Island Borough Council to borrow from the Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, up to and including the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, by way of overdraft against loan-moneys deposited with the National Bank of New Zealand, Limited, Dunedin North, and to pay interest on such overdraft out of the District Fund of the Council.

(2) All moneys so borrowed from the Bank of New Zealand shall be a first charge upon the moneys now deposited with the National Bank of New Zealand, Limited, as aforesaid, and shall be repaid to the Bank of New Zealand as and when the moneys so deposited become repayable to the Council.

(3) The moneys borrowed under the authority of this section shall be applied only to the purposes for which the said loan was raised.

The Opotiki Borough Council is hereby authorized to expend out of its Wharf Account the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for the purpose of permanently sealing that portion of street in the Borough of Opotiki extending from Elliott Street along Saint John and Kelly Streets to the Wharf Reserve.

Whereas by a deed of lease bearing date the twenty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, made between the Wellington Harbour Board (hereinafter called the Board), of the one part, and the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Limited, and the Wellington Patent Slip Company, Limited (hereinafter called the lessees), of the other part, a copy of which deed of lease is recorded in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington as IA 1935/120/25, the Board leased unto the lessees at the rental and upon the terms and conditions therein appearing a certain piece of land therein described situate at Evans Bay in the Port Nicholson Survey District, together with the two slips, the two guide jetties, and the buildings and machinery, plant, and tools on the said land or used in connection with the land, for a term of seven years from the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, with a right of renewal for a further period of seven years from the expiration of that term: And whereas by a deed of lease also bearing date the twenty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, made between the same parties, a copy of which deed of lease is recorded in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington as IA 1935/120/25, the Board leased to the lessees at the rentals and upon the terms and conditions therein appearing a certain wharf and structure at Evans Bay in the said survey district known as the repair wharf, and a certain triangular strip of land adjoining the northern end of such wharf, together with the buildings and fixtures thereon and plant and machinery used therewith, for a term of seven years from the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, with a right of renewal for a further term of seven years from the expiration of that term: And whereas it is desirable that the two said deeds of lease should be validated and given full force and effect: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The two said deeds of lease are hereby validated and given full force and effect, and the Board and the lessees shall be deemed to have been duly empowered to enter into and execute the same.

(1) The Board may by special resolution determine that,—

• (a) In the case of contributors who made their first contributions to the fund as at the date of the establishment thereof, payments may be made thereto by the Board in respect of service of those contributors prior to such date of establishment:

• (b) In the case of contributors who made their first contribution to the fund after the date of the establishment thereof, payments may be made thereto by the Board and contributions may be made thereto by those contributors in respect of service prior to the date when contributions were first made to the funds by those contributors:

• (c) Payment may be made out of the fund of retiring-allowances correspondingly increased by reason of the payments and contributions made pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.

(2) Where any special resolution is passed in terms of subsection one of this section the provisions of sections six, seven, and eight of the Local Authorities Superannuation Act 1908, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply as if the special resolution were an original or amending special resolution under that Act.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or by-law governing and controlling the Auckland Harbour Board, the remission by the Board of a sum of twenty-five dollars and seventy-two and a half cents for shipping wharfage dues and a sum of twenty-nine dollars and forty cents for port charges incurred by the Japanese training-ship “Shintoku Maru” is hereby validated.

(1) The Board shall be deemed to have and to have had at all times from and including the said twenty-sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, full power to pass the resolution hereinbefore referred to, and to charge, pledge, and appropriate its revenues for the purpose of meeting payments of purchase-money for the wharf at Opononi as and when the same fell and fall due.

(2) The payment of the said sum of one hundred dollars on the twentieth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, is hereby validated.

(3) The said resolution and all acts of the Board done or purported to be done or to have been done in pursuance thereof are hereby declared valid and effectual according to the tenor thereof respectively.

(1) In case the amount in the Harbour Fund shall in any year during the currency of the said loan, after payment thereout of any prior charges thereon, be insufficient to pay the interest and other charges on the said loan and the amount required to redeem the debentures in respect of the said loan maturing in that year, the Board, in addition to any rate which it has heretofore been authorized to make and levy for the purpose of providing interest charges and sinking fund in respect of the said loan, may make and levy such further or other rate upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Harbour District as in its opinion shall be necessary for the purpose of providing the amount required to redeem the said debentures, or may in lieu of making and levying such rate as aforesaid, or, at any time after such rate shall have been made, in lieu of continuing to levy the same may from time to time allocate and recover from the local authorities in the Harbour District a sum equivalent to the annual amount of such rate to be fixed, apportioned, and raised in manner provided in the Timaru Harbour Board Empowering Act 1890, and the provisions of that Act, and of any other Act applicable in that behalf shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the rate or contributions so to be levied or allocated, and to the appointment and powers of a Receiver.

(2) The proceeds of such rate or allocation shall be applied towards payment of the debentures issued by the Board in respect of the said loan as and when the same shall respectively become due and payable.

Whereas by a poll of ratepayers taken on the eighth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the North Auckland Electric-power Board was authorized to raise a loan to be known as the Reticulation Loan, 1935, of $534,000 (hereinafter referred to as the said loan) for the purpose of the supply and distribution of electrical energy for the benefit of the North Auckland Electric-power District and for the payment of preliminary expenses incurred by the Board: And whereas the first election of the Board took place on the twenty-first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-three: And whereas by virtue of section sixty-eight of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, the maximum amount of such preliminary expenses which the Board is empowered to pay out of the said loan is such amount as may have been incurred or become payable within three years after the first election of the Board: And whereas it is desirable that the Board should be empowered to pay out of the said loan all preliminary expenses and payments authorized by section sixty-eight of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, and payable up to the time when the Board commences the supply of electrical energy without any other limitation as to time as provided by the said section sixty-eight: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board may in the manner provided by section sixty-eight of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, pay out of loan-moneys the expenses referred to in that section and incurred by the ratepayers or by the Board, as the case may be, at any time before the Board commences the supply of electrical energy.

The payment by the Wairau River Board out of its General Fund during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, of a sum of two hundred dollars as a compassionate allowance to Martha Ann Greig, the widow of David Greig, late Inspector of the said Board, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas by the Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment Act 1930 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board was authorized to borrow any sum or sums of money, not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, in addition to any moneys theretofore authorized to be borrowed: And whereas doubts have arisen regarding the authority of the said Board to make, levy, and pledge a special rate as the security for the repayment of the moneys so authorized to be borrowed and the interest thereon: And whereas it is expedient to remove such doubt: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Where any money is borrowed under the authority of the said Act, whether before or after the passing of this Act, the provisions of sections eight and nine of the Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment Act 1921, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply as if the money were borrowed under the authority of that Act.

(1) The borrowing of the said sum of one thousand two hundred dollars is hereby validated, and the Board is hereby authorized to issue in terms of the said consent of the Governor-General twenty-four debentures of fifty dollars each, and the same when issued shall be valid and binding on the Board according to their tenor.

(2) The establishment and maintenance of the sinking fund in respect of the said loan of one thousand two hundred dollars and all acts of the Board relating thereto are hereby validated, and it is declared that as from the date of the passing of this Act the moneys payable by the Board into such sinking fund shall be not less than three dollars and fifty cents per centum per annum estimated on the amount of the said loan.

(3) The Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act 1932-33, shall apply to the said debentures and the rate of interest payable thereunder.

The payment by the Palmerston North Fire Board during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, of the sum of two hundred dollars to Flora Elizabeth Barnard out of its General Account by way of compassionate allowance is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Wellington Hospital Board is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase and acquire all that piece or parcel of land situate in the City of Wellington, containing twenty and one-tenth perches, more or less, being part of Section 514 on the plan of the Town of Wellington, and the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 46, folio 157, Wellington Registry, subject as to the part coloured yellow on the plan on the said certificate of title to the right of way created by Transfer Number 13169, and for the purpose of acquiring such land to expend a sum of money not exceeding a sum approved by the Minister of Health in that behalf.

(2) The Board is hereby further authorized and empowered to borrow such moneys as may be required in connection with the purchase of the land herein described, and to secure repayment of the loan it may issue debentures or mortgage or charge the land or any other land vested in the Board.

(1) The Hutt River Board (hereinafter called the Board) and the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington (hereinafter called the Corporation) are hereby authorized and empowered to carry out and give effect to the provisions of the agreement entered into for the purpose of facilitating the supply of artesian water to the City of Wellington from Gear Island and adjacent land, dated the eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, made between the Board and the Corporation, an executed copy of which is recorded for reference in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington as IA 1935/120/10.

(2) The provisions of the said agreement shall not be varied without the consent of the Petone Borough Council, the Lower Hutt Borough Council, and the Hutt County Council.

(3) The Wellington City Council shall during the first ten years of its operations under the said agreement, or under any documents executed or existing pursuant to the said agreement, limit its boring operations in the Hutt Valley, the areas to which it shall extend such operations, the quantity of water to be taken, and the rate at which it is to be taken, as is provided by the said agreement, save as may be otherwise agreed by the Petone Borough Council, the Lower Hutt Borough Council, and the Hutt County Council; and at the end of such period of ten years the provisions of the said agreement as to the said matters shall be reviewed.

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

The local authorities mentioned hereunder shall be deemed to be and to have been authorized and empowered to pay during the two years ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, to funds established for the relief of distress, such sums (in addition to amounts otherwise authorized) as they think fit, not exceeding in any case the respective amounts hereinafter specified—namely, the Timaru Borough Council, three thousand seven hundred and six dollars and forty-two and a half cents; the Christchurch City Council, fifteen thousand seven hundred dollars; and the Lyttelton Harbour Board, six hundred and fifty dollars.

Whereas by Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and published in the Gazette of the second day of November of the same year, the Governor-General constituted the Mataitai-Orere Rabbit District under Part 3 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1908: And whereas the said district enures for the purposes of Part 2 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, and it is deemed to have been constituted under that Act: And whereas the Rabbit Board established for the said district has ceased to function, and it is deemed desirable to abolish the district: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Mataitai-Orere Rabbit District is hereby abolished and the Rabbit Board of that district is hereby dissolved.

The action of the Massey Agricultural College Council in borrowing from the Public Trustee on the twenty-first day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the sum of two thousand dollars, which sum was advanced by the Public Trustee against the share of the said college in the residuary estate of Walter Henry Bailey, deceased, pursuant to the provisions of section six of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act 1912, as amended by section thirty-four of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act 1921-22, and the action of the Public Trustee in advancing the said sum are hereby validated and the said Council is hereby authorized and empowered to repay the said advance in accordance with the terms of the said section six, and to pay interest thereon at such rate as is fixed from time to time by the Public Trust Office Board pursuant to that section.

The name of the Western Spit Public Library, a body duly incorporated under the Libraries and Mechanics' Institutes Act 1908, is hereby changed to the Westshore Public Hall, and the District Land Registrar at Napier is hereby empowered and directed without payment of any fee to alter the name of the Western Spit Public Library where it appears as registered proprietor of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 83, folio 172 (Hawke's Bay Registry), to the Westshore Public Hall.