This Act may be cited as the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1936.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said section fifteen, not more than three heads of water out of the water authorized to be diverted under the license for a water race Number 4892, referred to in subsection six of the said section, or under any renewal of that license, or under any new license substituted therefor, shall be held or applied for the purposes of the lands within the area for the time being defined as aforesaid, and the remainder of the water comprised in the said license or in any renewal or new license as aforesaid shall be held and applied in such manner and for such purposes as the Minister of Public Works from time to time determines.

(2) The provisions of sections two hundred and seventy-eight, two hundred and seventy-nine, and two hundred and eighty of the Public Works Act 1928 and of Part 3 of the Finance Act 1933 (No 2), shall, so far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to every agreement made (whether before or after the passing of this Act) under paragraph (d) of subsection two of the said section fifteen, as if it were an irrigation agreement as defined in section thirty-four of the said Finance Act 1933 (No 2).

(3) In the application of the said provisions as provided by the last preceding subsection—

• (a) References to the Minister of Public Works shall be deemed to be references to the Minister of Lands:

• (b) References to the District Engineer of the Public Works Department shall be deemed to be references to the Commissioner of Crown Lands:

• (c) The definition of the term lease in subsection three of the said section two hundred and seventy eight shall be deemed to be extended to include a license to occupy land pending the purchase thereof from His Majesty the King on a system of deferred payments, and any other license or lease issued by or on behalf of His Majesty.

(4) The said section fifteen is hereby consequentially amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of subsection two all words after the words “(if any)”.

(5) In the next two succeeding subsections the term lease means a lease or license issued by or on behalf of His Majesty the King, and includes a license to occupy land pending the purchase thereof from His Majesty on a system of deferred payments.

(6) Where the lessee for the time being under any lease (whether issued before or after the passing of this Act) of any land in respect of which an irrigation agreement under the said paragraph (d) of subsection two of the said section fifteen is for the time being registered surrenders his lease and obtains a new lease in exchange therefor, the irrigation agreement and the provisions applied by subsection two hereof shall continue to apply with respect to the new lease as if it were a renewal of the surrendered lease. Where any such lessee obtains a title in fee-simple to any land in respect of which an irrigation agreement is for the time being registered, the irrigation agreement and the provisions applied as aforesaid shall continue to apply with respect to that land as if the agreement had been made with the legal owner in fee-simple of the land.

(7) In every lease (whether issued before or after the passing of this Act) of any land in respect of which any such irrigation agreement is for the time being registered (whether registered before or after the execution of the lease) there shall be implied a covenant by the lessee with His Majesty the King to observe and perform the irrigation agreement and to pay all moneys from time to time payable thereunder in respect of the land comprised in the lease.

(8) The power of delegation conferred on the Minister by paragraph (e) of subsection two of the said section fifteen may be exercised from time to time. Every such delegation shall be revocable at will, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Minister in person.

(9) Any such delegation may be made to a committee comprising such of the persons for the time being entitled to a supply of water under the said section as may be specified in that behalf in the instrument of delegation. The Minister may from time to time appoint any person for the time being entitled to a supply of water as aforesaid to be a member of any such committee. Any member of any such committee may resign office by notice in writing to the Minister. Any member may be at any time removed from office by the Minister; and any member who ceases to be entitled to a supply of water as aforesaid shall be so removed from office. Every such appointment or removal shall be in writing under the hand of the Minister. In the event of any change in the membership of the committee to which any such delegation has been made, the delegation shall continue to have effect as if made to the persons for the time being holding office as members of the committee. In addition to any other powers contained therein, any such delegation may include power to determine in the manner therein provided the amounts to be paid from time to time for the supply of water as aforesaid and power to demand, recover (by legal proceedings or otherwise), and receive such amounts and to enforce the provisions of any agreement for the supply of water and either in the name of the committee or otherwise as may be provided in the delegation.

Section two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1912, is hereby amended by repealing subsection four, and substituting the following subsection:—

(1) The land granted by the aforesaid Crown grant shall be deemed to have always been the land hereinafter described.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to cancel the aforesaid Crown grant and to issue in substitution therefor a certificate of title in favour of His Majesty the King for the land hereinafter described as an endowment for the purposes of primary education, and to amend any plans or certificates of title in his office which will require to be amended to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(3) The land referred to in subsection one of this section is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing one hundred and twenty-nine acres, more or less, being Allotment 94A of the Parish of Maungatapere, and bounded as follows: towards the north-west by Allotments 102 and 101, Maungatapere Parish, 2480.1 and 740.6 links; towards the north-east by Allotment 100 of the aforesaid Parish, 2011.3 and 266.7 links, and by the crossing of a public road, 110.5 links; again towards the north-west by a public road 100 links wide, 554.6, 538.25, 355.1, 290.4, 166.7, and 761.6 links; and again towards the north-east by Allotment 93 and the western portion of Allotment 94 of the aforesaid Parish, 3758.5 links; towards the south-east and south-west generally by a public road 100 links wide, 77.5, 319.6, 402.0, 330.5, 1034.2, 1133.4, and 545.1 links, and by the crossing of a public road, 143.9 links; and again towards the south-east by a public road 100 links wide, 489.6 and 509.5 links; and thence again towards the south-west by Allotment 125, Maungakaramea Parish, 3221 links; excepting thereout an intersecting public road: as the same is more particularly delineated on North Auckland Plan 28085 blue, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Auckland.

(1) The District Land Registrar for the Auckland Land Registration District is hereby empowered and directed to issue to the said Charles Crisp a certificate of title free of charge for the land hereinafter described.

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

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing one rood three and one-half perches, being Lot 1 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland as number 8476, and being part of Allotment 70, Parish of Waipareira, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 233, folio 143, Auckland Registry.

Whereas by Crown Grant Number 68B, dated the tenth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, being a grant of one thousand six hundred and forty-seven acres known as Allotment 39 of the Parish of Mahurangi, a right was reserved to the Crown to lay out roads over the said allotment: And whereas in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in pursuance of the said right, the Warkworth-Matakana Road was laid off through the said allotment as shown on a plan numbered 850E in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Auckland, but no evidence of the taking of land from the said allotment for a road was ever registered against the title thereto: And whereas the said allotment was brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act 1885, on the twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, by a certificate of title registered in Volume 44, folio 168, Auckland Registry, and was subdivided as shown on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland as number 571 on the twenty-second day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: And whereas the roads shown on plan number 571, extending from the western boundary of the said allotment to Duck Creek near pegs numbered XLVIA and XXXIIIA, were laid out to effect the same connection as the road laid out in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five as hereinbefore recited, but do not coincide with and are not regarded by the Chief Surveyor at Auckland as a re-definition of the original road: And whereas it is desirable and expedient to substitute the roads through Allotment 39 shown on plan number 571 for the road shown on the said plan number 850E: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The roads shown on the said plan number 571 between the points hereinbefore mentioned are hereby declared to have been public roads as from the twenty-second day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the road shown on the said plan number 850E is hereby declared to have been closed and vested in the owner of the said Allotment 39 on that date, and the District Land Registrar at Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to make such entries in the Registers as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) The reservation for permanent State forest purposes over the lands hereinafter described is hereby cancelled and the said lands are hereby set apart as scenic reserves, subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

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

Firstly, all that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Block VII, Katikati Survey District, and Block X, Aongatete Survey District, and containing by admeasurement three hundred and sixteen acres two roods and thirty-three perches, more or less, being parts of the State forests set apart by Proclamations in the Gazette of nineteen hundred and eighteen, page 802, and of nineteen hundred and thirty five, page 2735: bounded towards the north and north-east by other part of the State forest set apart by Proclamation in the Gazette of nineteen hundred and eighteen, page 802; towards the north-east and south by other part of the State forest set apart by Proclamation in the Gazette of nineteen hundred and thirty five, page 2735; towards the south-west by parts Sections 47 and 45, Block XII, Aroha Survey District, and Sections 14S, 15S, 16S, and 13S, Wairakau Settlement: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 300A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red:

Secondly, all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement fifty acres, more or less, being Section 28, Block VII, Wairere Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 300B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement fifty acres, more or less, being Section 10, Block XI, Wairere Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 300C, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, and the Cemeteries Act 1908, the reservation for municipal purposes over the land described in subsection four hereof is hereby declared to be changed to a reservation for a cemetery, and the said land is hereby added to and declared to be part of the Waikaraka Cemetery.

(2) The Onehunga Borough 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, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, for the purpose of repaying to the said Council all costs, charges, and expenses paid and incurred by the said Council since the first day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty five, out of its District Fund Account for the improvement and development of the lands described in subsections four and five hereof and for the purpose of the future improvement and development of the said lands.

(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, the Cemeteries Act 1908, or in any other Act, the Onehunga Borough Council is hereby authorized to establish a separate account, to be known as “The Waikaraka Cemetery and Recreation-ground Trust Account”, at such bank as the said Council may from time to time appoint, into which shall be paid all moneys whatsoever received by the said Council in respect of the lands described in subsections four and five hereof, and the funds in the said account shall be expended in or towards the payment of the annual charges on any loan raised under the authority of the last preceding subsection and in or towards the maintenance, management, and improvement of the said lands and for no other purpose:

Provided that, pending the expenditure of the funds of the said account in the manner aforesaid, the said Council may invest such funds in such securities as shall from time to time be authorized by law for the investment of trust funds or may deposit such funds at interest with the said Council.

(4) The area of municipal reserve to be added to the Waikaraka Cemetery is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District in the Borough of Onehunga, containing by admeasurement five acres and twenty-two perches, more or less, being Lot 6 on Plan Number 25356, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, and being portion of an area vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Onehunga in fee-simple for municipal purposes by the Onehunga Borough Vesting Act 1911: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 2/403A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

(5) The Waikaraka Cemetery and the recreation reserve referred to in this section are particularly described as follows:—

Firstly, all that area in the North Auckland Land District, in the Borough of Onehunga, containing by admeasurement ten acres two roods twenty-five perches and six-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Sections M61, S44, S45, S46 and parts N61, N44, N45, and N46, near the Town of Onehunga, being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 24, folio 298, and part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 24, folio 300, Auckland Registry: bounded towards the north by parts Sections N61, N44, N45, and N46, near the Town of Onehunga (Waikaraka Recreation Reserve); towards the south-east generally by the Manukau Harbour; towards the west and south-east generally by Lot 6 on Plan Number 25356, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland; and again towards the west generally by Lots 4 and 5 on Plan Number 25356 aforesaid, and Alfred Street: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 2/403B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red; and

Secondly, all that area in the North Auckland Land District, in the Borough of Onehunga, containing by admeasurement thirty-two acres two roods thirty-six perches and four-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Sections 47 and 48 and parts of Sections N61, N44, N45, and N46, near the Town of Onehunga, and being portion of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 24, folio 300, Auckland Registry: bounded towards the north by Neilson Street; towards the east generally by a public road, and a Borough Reserve below high-water mark; towards the south-east generally by the Manukau Harbour; towards the south generally by the other parts of Sections N46, N45, N44, and N61, near the Town of Onehunga (Waikaraka Cemetery Reserve); and towards the west generally by Alfred Street: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 2/403C, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Cemeteries Act 1908, or in any other Act, the land described in subsection three hereof is hereby vested in the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Auckland and his successors forever, in perpetual succession as a corporation sole, in trust as a site for the burial of the dead according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.

(2) The land described in subsection four hereof is hereby vested in the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Auckland.

(3) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement thirteen perches and three-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Section 94, Village of Taupiri, Block IV, Newcastle Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L and S 22/4109A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

(4) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two roods and one-tenth of a perch, more or less, being Section 49, Village of Taupiri, Block IV, Newcastle Survey District, and being subject to a pipe-line easement ten links wide: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L and S 22/4109B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

(5) The District Land Registrar of the Land Registration District of Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to issue such certificates of title as are necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) The District Land Registrar for the Gisborne Land Registration District is hereby empowered and directed to issue to the said Public Trustee of the Dominion of New Zealand, as executor of the will of the said George Brown Oman, deceased, a certificate of title free of charge for the land hereinafter described.

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

All that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing one rood, more or less, being Lot 1 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Gisborne as Number 2276, and being part of Section 62, Ormond Rural Block, Block IX, Waimata Survey District, and being all the land in certificate of title, Volume 57, folio 266, Gisborne Registry.

(1) The reservation for scenic purposes over the land described in subsection four hereof is hereby revoked and the vesting of the control thereof in the Huatoki Scenic Board is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, and to form part of the Huatoki Domain.

(2) The right granted to the Huatoki Scenic Board to acquire on deferred payments the land described in subsection five hereof pursuant to section twenty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby determined, as from the date of the passing of this Act, and the said land is hereby declared to be subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, and to form part of the Huatoki Domain.

(3) Section twenty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby repealed.

(4) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement nine acres three roods and fifteen perches, more or less, being Section 4S, Huatoki Settlement, Block V, Paritutu Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L and S 1/700A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(5) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement eight acres two roods and eleven perches, more or less, being Section 9S, Huatoki Settlement, Block V, Paritutu Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L and S 1/700B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, upon the transfer to His Majesty the King of the land hereinafter described the said land shall be deemed to be an endowment for the purpose of primary education, and thereafter the Land Board for the Land District of Taranaki may incorporate the said land in memorandum of lease Number 12503, Taranaki Land Registry.

(2) A certificate under the hand of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Taranaki that the land hereinafter described is incorporated in memorandum of lease Number 12503 aforesaid shall be sufficient authority to the District Land Registrar of the Taranaki Land Registration District to make an appropriate entry in respect of such incorporation on the said lease retained in his office and on the outstanding copy thereof.

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

All that area, containing nine perches and twenty-two hundredths of a perch, being part Lot C on a plan deposited in Taranaki Land Registry as Number 1098, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 134, folio 275, Taranaki Registry.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, the reservation for recreation purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby declared to be reserved for scenic purposes and to be subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

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

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement two hundred and two acres one rood and thirty-five perches, more or less, being part of Section 47, Block XIII, Makuri Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L and S 175A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Transfer Act 1915, or in any other Act, it is hereby declared that Mary McKain, of Levin, Widow, is the owner of a leasehold estate or interest in an area in the Wellington Land District, containing five acres, more or less, being Section 15, Horowhenua Village Homestead Settlement, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in a certain lease in perpetuity numbered 319 under Part 3 of the Land Act 1892, registered in Volume 6A, folio 220, Wellington Registry, and the said leasehold estate or interest shall be deemed to have been vested in the said Mary McKain as from the ninth day of November, nineteen hundred.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Wellington Land Registration District is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed, upon receipt by him of an application in that behalf from the said Mary McKain, to make such entries on the said lease and on the outstanding copy thereof as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Picton Borough Council may sell the land described in subsection three hereof freed and discharged from the trusts, reservations, and restrictions affecting the same.

(2) The net proceeds of such sale shall be applied towards the reclamation of land comprised in the Waitohi Domain.

(3) The land referred to in subsection one hereof is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement one rood, more or less, being Section 469, Town of Picton, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 3, folio 64, Marlborough Registry.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Westland and Nelson Coal Fields Administration Act 1877, or in any other Act, the land hereinafter described is hereby declared to be freed and discharged from all trusts, reservations, and restrictions heretofore affecting it, and the said land is hereby set apart as a scenic reserve, subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

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

All those areas in the Nelson Land District, being portions of the Buller Coal Field Reserve, and being Section 16, Blocks II and III, Ohika Survey District, containing by estimation three thousand acres, more or less, and Section 19, Blocks I, II, III, VI, and VII, Ohika Survey District, containing by estimation four thousand one hundred acres, more or less: as the same are more particularly delineated on a plan marked L and S 4/333, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The deed of lease over the land hereinafter described, made on the third day of December, nineteen hundred and twelve, between His Majesty the King as lessor and the Lyttelton and Heathcote Recreation Trust as lessee, is hereby declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, or in any other Act, the payments made by the Lyttelton and Heathcote Domain Board as rental in respect of and for maintaining and improving the land hereinafter described are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made, and the said Board is hereby authorized to continue to make similar payments so long as the said land is used for the purposes of public recreation in conjunction with the Lyttelton and Heathcote Domain.

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

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres one rood and thirteen perches, more or less, and being part Lot 11 on plan deposited in the Canterbury Land Registry Office at Christchurch as Number 9873, situated in Block XVI of the Christchurch Survey District, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 420, folio 211, Canterbury Registry: bounded towards the north by Rural Section 254, 526.5 links; towards the north-east by other part of Lot 11 on Plan Number 9873 aforesaid, 395.0 links; towards the south-east by Reserve 3839, 480.8 links; and again towards the south-west by Port Hills Road, 550.0 links: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/437, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The said agreement is hereby declared to be valid and binding in all respects, and shall have full force and effect as if it were specifically enacted in terms thereof in this Act; and the parties thereto shall be deemed to have been duly empowered to enter into and execute the same, and, further, shall have full power to carry out the works of construction and reclamation and all works incidental thereto and to do all other things, including the making of further agreements, which may be deemed necessary to give full force and effect to the said agreement.

(2) The work of reclamation which the Minister of Public Works is required to execute in terms of the said agreement shall be deemed to be a public work within the meaning of the Public Works Act 1928, and the Minister may from time to time take under the provisions of the said Act any land adjoining or near to any of the land authorized to be reclaimed by any of the parties to the said agreement which in his uncontrolled discretion he shall deem it desirable so to take, and every such taking shall be conclusively deemed to be for the purpose of the public work hereinbefore referred to.

(1) The actions of the Oxford County Council in selling the pieces of land comprised in the two memoranda of transfer hereinafter referred to and in executing the said memoranda of transfer, and the action of the District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Canterbury in registering the said memoranda of transfer, are hereby validated.

(2) The memoranda of transfer to which this section relates are the following:—

Firstly, memorandum of transfer Number 150595 from the Oxford County Council to Alfred Bunn and David Hawke as joint tenants of Lot 2 on Deposited Plan Number 6461, being part of Reserve 1867, Block X, Oxford Survey District, Canterbury Land District:

Secondly, memorandum of transfer Number 150596 from the Oxford County Council to Herbert Francis Luers of Lot 1 on Deposited Plan Number 6461, being part of Reserve 1867, Block X, Oxford Survey District, Canterbury Land District.

Whereas the control of the Taupo Domain was vested in the Taupo Road Board by Order in Council published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-three: And whereas the said Road Board in its capacity as the Domain Board desires to construct thermal baths upon the said domain, and for that purpose to borrow a sum of twelve thousand dollars: And whereas the said Road Board pursuant to section sixty of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, may borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, moneys for the improvement and development of the said domain, but there is no authority whereby revenue derived from the said domain may be applied towards repayment of principal moneys of any such loan or towards payment of the interest accruing thereon: And whereas it is expedient that authority should be provided whereby the rents, receipts, and profits derived from the said domain may be applied towards repayment of any sum borrowed for the aforesaid purpose, together with interest thereon: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, and without further authority than this section, the Taupo Domain Board is hereby authorized to pay to the Taupo Road Board from time to time out of the rents, receipts, and profits derived from the Taupo Domain such annual sums as the said Domain Board may in its absolute discretion decide in order to provide in whole or in part for the annual charges for the payment of interest, or interest and sinking fund, or interest and principal, as the case may be, on any sum borrowed by the said Road Board for the purpose of constructing thermal baths upon the said domain.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Cemeteries Act 1908, or any other Act, it is hereby declared that after his death, whenever the same shall occur, the burial of the body of Sir Frederick Truby King, Kt, CMG, MB, CM, BSc, may be lawfully made in the land hereinafter described (and hereinafter referred to as the said land), being portion of the land owned by the said Frederick Truby King at Mount Melrose in the City of Wellington.

(2) The body of the late wife of the said Frederick Truby King now interred in the Porirua Cemetery may, after the body of the said Frederick Truby King shall have been buried in the said land, and after due notice to the authorities of the Porirua Cemetery, be exhumed and reburied in the said land.

(3) The body of no other person shall be buried in the said land.

(4) Sections eighty-three to eighty-nine and ninety-one of the Cemeteries Act 1908, shall apply to the said land as if it were a burial-ground under that Act, and as if the Wellington City Council were the Managers thereof.

(5) The said land is particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land in the City of Wellington, containing one perch and twenty-seven hundredths of a perch, being part of Lot 3, Deposited Plan Number 145, part of Section 5, Evans Bay Registration District, Block VII, Port Nicholson Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan numbered 332/69, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, and thereon coloured red, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point distant 20.98 links on a bearing of 14° 02′, 285.63 links on a bearing of 251° 29′, 6.12 links on a bearing of 56° 14′ from the north-western corner of Lot 5, Deposited Plan 10399; thence on a bearing of 356° 52′ 40″ for a distance of 28.17 links; thence on a bearing of 266° 36′ for a distance of 28.34 links; thence on a bearing of 176° 01′ for a distance of 28.34 links; thence on a bearing of 86° 15′ 30″ for a distance of 27.91 links, to the point of commencement.

(1) The reservation for provisional State forest purposes over the lands hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby set apart as scenic reserves, subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

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

Section 9, Block VII, Waitahu Survey District, containing 450 acres; Section 1, Block XI, Waitahu Survey District, containing 880 acres; Section 2, Block XII, Waitahu Survey District, containing 1,110 acres; Section 1, Block XIII, Rahu Survey District, containing 1,190 acres; Section 4, Block XIV, Rahu Survey District, containing 835 acres; and Section 1, Block II, Lewis Survey District, containing 510 acres; be all the said areas a little more or less, all situated in the Nelson Land District: as the same are delineated on the plan marked L and S X/97/29, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The Governor-General is hereby empowered to grant to the Education Board of the District of Canterbury an easement in perpetuity over the portion of Education Reserve 1144 firstly described in subsection three hereof for the purpose of a water-supply and pipe-line to the land secondly described in the said subsection upon such terms and conditions as he deems fit.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Canterbury is hereby empowered to register every document necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

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

Firstly, all that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement four perches and eighteen hundredths of a perch, more or less, and being part of Section 1 of Reserve 1144, situated in Block XII of the Waipara Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by Lot 11 on Deposited Plan 453, 10.07 links; towards the east by Rural Section 10005, 261.4 links; towards the south by railway land, 10.01 links; and again towards the west by other part of Section 1 of Reserve 1144 aforesaid, 260.77 links; also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement thirty perches and eighty-five hundredths of a perch, more or less, and being part of Section 3 of Reserve 1144, situated in Block XII of the Waipara Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by railway land, 10.01 links; towards the east by Rural Section 10005, 1198.2 links; towards the south by Section 16 of Reserve 1144, 90.91 links; towards the west and again towards the north and again towards the west by other part of Section 3 of Reserve 1144 aforesaid, 90.91 links, 80.9 links, and 1107.92 links respectively: as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/6/632A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red:

Secondly, all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres, more or less, and being Lot 7 and part of Lot 6 on Deposited Plan 453 and part Rural Section 9784, situated in Block XII of the Waipara Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by Princes Street, 454.3 links; towards the east by other part of Lot 6 on Deposited Plan 453 aforesaid and Lot 1 on Deposited Plan 2825, 306.7 links and 137 links; towards the south and towards the west by other part of Rural Section 9784 aforesaid, 455 links and 137 links; and again towards the west by Lot 8 on Deposited Plan 453 aforesaid, 302.3 links: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/6/632B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered blue.

(1) The reservations for provisional and permanent State forest purposes over the lands hereinafter described are hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby set apart as scenic reserves, subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

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

Firstly, all that area in the Westland Land District, containing two hundred and thirty acres, more or less, being part of Provisional State Forest Number 1643 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and twenty, page two thousand eight hundred and forty-four), situated in Block XIV, Gillespies Survey District; and also all that area in the Westland Land District containing thirty acres, more or less, being part of Provisional State Forest Number 1721 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, page one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine), situated in Blocks IX and X, Gillespies Survey District: as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 4/63, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green:

Secondly, all that area in the Westland Land District, containing fifteen acres, more or less, being part of State Forest Number 1643 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, page eleven), situated in Block X, Gillespies Survey District; and also all that area in the Westland Land District, containing five hundred acres, more or less, being part of State Forest Number 1643 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, page eleven), situated in Blocks X, XIV, and XV, Gillespies Survey District; and also all that area in the Westland Land District, containing one thousand seven hundred and fifty acres, more or less, being part of State Forest Number 1643 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, page eleven), situated in Blocks XIV and XV, Gillespies Survey District; and also all that area in the Westland Land District, containing six thousand two hundred acres, more or less, being part of State Forest Number 1644 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, page eleven), situated in Block XVI, Gillespies Survey District, and Blocks IX and XIII, Waiho Survey District; and also all that area in the Westland Land District, containing one thousand acres, more or less, being part of State Forest Number 1696 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, page eleven), situated in Block XII, Gillespies Survey District; and also all that area in the Westland Land District, containing two hundred and fifty acres, more or less, being part of State Forest Number 1721 (Gazette of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, page eleven), situated in Block X, Gillespies Survey District: as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 4/63, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered blue.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, or in any other Act, portion of the funds of the Opotiki and Waioeka Domain may from time to time, but subject in each case to the approval of the Minister of Lands, be used in establishing an aerodrome on the land hereinafter described, and in managing, administering, and improving such land for aerodrome purposes.

(2) The land proposed to be set apart as a site for an aerodrome as hereinbefore mentioned is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and nine acres one rood and nine perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 333, Waioeka Parish, situated in Block III, Opotiki Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the southernmost corner of Allotment 340A, Waioeka Parish, towards the north-west by the said Allotment 340A and Allotment 340B, Section 1, Allotment 340B, Section 2, Allotment 340C, and Allotment 340D, all of Waioeka Parish aforesaid, the abutment of a drainage reserve, and again by the aforesaid Allotment 340D to a public road; thence towards the north-east by a public road, 2660.6 links; thence towards the east generally by part of Allotment 333 by lines bearing 179° 38′, 470.2 links, and 197° 19′ 30″, 581.5 links, to a public road; thence towards the south by the last-mentioned public road, 4013.0 links; thence towards the west and south generally by lines bearing 0° 48′, 1033.7 links, and 270° 36′, 999.0 links, to a public road; thence again towards the west by the last-mentioned public road, 891.8 links, to the point of commencement; be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/515 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The reservation for provisional State forest purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby set apart as a scenic reserve, subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

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

All that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing one thousand and fifty acres, more or less, being Section 54, Block VIII, and Section 2, Block XI, Heringa Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the north-western corner of Section 43A, Block VIII, Heringa Survey District, on the Pelorus River; thence southerly by the boundaries of the said Section 43A and Section 1, Block XI, Heringa Survey District, to the south-western corner of the said Section 1; thence south-westerly by a right line to Trig N, 7540 links, and continuing by a right line bearing and measuring approximately 235°, 5150 links, respectively, to a State forest peg on Waterfall Creek; thence northerly by Waterfall Creek to the Pelorus River; thence north-easterly by the Pelorus River to the point of commencement; be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 23/596, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) Subsection three of section twenty-three of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1935, is hereby amended by omitting the words “forty thousand dollars”, and substituting the words “seventy-eight thousand dollars”.

(2) The Auckland City Council may, out of the proceeds of the special loan to be raised under the authority of the said subsection three, expend the sum of eight thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars in acquiring from His Majesty the King the land hereinafter described for the purposes of the said terminus and for the purposes of street-widening in connection therewith.

(3) The land that may be acquired as aforesaid is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the City of Auckland, containing by admeasurement ten perches and six-tenths of a perch, more or less, being parts of Lots 40 to 45, both inclusive, on a plan deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar and numbered 24330, being a subdivision of part Section 1, City of Auckland, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 624, folio 189, Auckland Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L and S 13/144/5, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red, and also on plan numbered 28751, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Auckland, and thereon also coloured red.

(1) The trustees of the New Zealand Sheepowners' Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund are hereby authorized and empowered to sell to the Crown the land described in subsection four hereof, together with any other real or personal property, owned by the said trustees that is used in any way whatsoever in connection with the Flock House Station, and the acquisition on behalf of His Majesty the King of the said land and of any other real or personal property owned by the said trustees is hereby authorized.

(2) The price to be paid for the land and for any other real or personal property that is owned by the said trustees and which may be acquired on behalf of His Majesty the King in pursuance of the authority conferred by the last preceding subsection shall be determined by a reference to arbitration as provided by section 86 of the Land Act 1924.

(3) The purchase-price of the said land and other property, together with all moneys that may be expended by the Crown for the improvement, roading, drainage, or otherwise for the benefit or protection of the said land, shall, without further appropriation than this section, be paid out of such fund or account as the Minister of Finance in his discretion may determine.

(4) The land referred to in subsection one hereof is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one acres two roods ten perches and two-tenths of a perch, more or less, being all the land comprised in certificates of title, Volume 310, folio 195, Volume 311, folio 87, Volume 313, folios 130 and 131, Volume 322, folio 86, and Volume 358, folio 282, Wellington Registry.