(1) The payment by the Kaikoura County Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, from the proceeds of the Kaikoura County Peninsula Riding Electrical Loan of two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars of the sum of one thousand dollars as a payment on account of the purchase price of a Diesel engine and generating-plant is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The action of the Council in accepting, on the twentieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, a tender from John Burns, Limited, for the supply of a Diesel engine and generating-plant for the sum of two thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars and twenty cents, payable by instalments, which sum included the sum of one hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty cents, being interest on unpaid purchase-money, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawful.

Whereas certain drainage rates amounting in all to thirty-two dollars and six and two-thirds cents (hereinafter referred to as the said rates) were levied by the Hutt County Council (hereinafter called the Council) for the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, on lands situated in the Wainui-o-mata Drainage District, and classified as non-rateable by the Council on the seventeenth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven: And whereas the Council desires authority to remit or to refund the said rates: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to remit or to refund, as the case may be, to the ratepayers concerned, in respect of the lands so classified as non-rateable, rates amounting in all to the sum of thirty-two dollars and six and two-thirds cents.

(1) All moneys borrowed and owing by the Council at any time during the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, in excess of the limits prescribed by the said section and all other moneys owing by the Council and included in the aforesaid sum of twenty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-four and one sixth cents shall for all purposes be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed and owing by the Council.

(2) The said outstanding liabilities of the Council shall be repaid by the Council by ten equal payments out of the moneys credited to the General Account of the County Fund, one such payment to be made in each year during the period of ten years commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight:

Provided that the Council may in any year repay an amount greater than such tenth part.

(3) The amount owing by the Council on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, in excess of the limits prescribed by the said section shall not at any time heretofore be deemed to have been taken into account nor shall any amount at any time lawfully owing under this section hereafter be taken into account in determining the amount that may be borrowed or that may be owed by the Council pursuant to the said section.

(4) Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the Council may in manner prescribed by the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, by special order and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, raise a special loan for any amount not exceeding the amount of the said outstanding liabilities that may at the time of the raising of the said loan be owing for the purpose of providing funds for the repayment to its bankers of the amount owing to them.

(5) Section five of the Local Legislation Act 1936, is hereby repealed.

The expenditure by the Takaka County Council out of its General Account of the sum of four hundred dollars in connection with the acquisition of a site for the Takaka Aerodrome is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

(1) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to raise a special loan, not exceeding a sum of six thousand five hundred dollars, upon the security of a special rate over all the rateable property in the said county for the purpose of contributing the sum hereinbefore mentioned towards the cost of the said drainage-works:

Provided that at the poll taken in respect of the loan only the ratepayers owning rateable property within the said drainage area shall be entitled to vote.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, the Council may, in lieu of collecting the aforesaid special rate, by resolution determine to levy and collect the amount required to meet the annual charges on the said loan from those ratepayers whose rateable property is situated within the said drainage area and that amount shall for all purposes be deemed to be a special rate duly made and levied over the rateable property comprised in the said drainage area. The Council may determine that the amount to be levied and collected as aforesaid shall be an annually recurring charge on the said rateable property.

(3) The said drainage area is described as follows:—

All that area of land situated within the County of Hobson, bounded as follows: Starting from the Dargaville Borough Boundary at its intersection of the Dargaville-Opanake Settlement Road; thence in a northerly direction by the said road until it intersects the eastern boundary of Section 2 of Block VII, Kaihu Survey District; thence by the eastern and north-eastern boundaries of the said Section 2; thence by the north-eastern boundary of Section 1 of Block VII, Kaihu Survey District; thence by the north-eastern boundaries of Opanake 2M 2, Opanake 2M 3, Opanake 2M 4, Opanake 2M H, to the Kaihu Stream; thence by the said Kaihu Stream until it intersects the original southern boundary of Opanake 2F (now part of Section 1, Maropiu Subdivision); thence to the north-eastern corner of Section 14, Maropiu Subdivision, in Block II, Kaihu Survey District; thence by the northern boundary of Sections 14 and 6, Maropiu Subdivision; thence by the western boundaries of the said Section 6 and Section 7 of the said Maropiu Subdivision; thence by the western boundaries of Sections 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 64, 36, 25 of Taharoa Subdivision of Blocks VI, X, XI, XIV, Kaihu Survey District; thence by and across a road to the north-western boundary of Section 5 of the said Taharoa Subdivision; thence by the western boundaries of the said Section 5 and Section 2 to Baylys Coast Road; thence by the said road to the Dargaville Borough Boundary; thence by the said Dargaville Borough Boundary to the starting point.

(1) The Council is hereby authorized to acquire for the Hauraki Plains East Water-supply District and Special-rating Area the existing water-main in the Pekapeka Road Water-supply District at the valuation thereof — namely, the sum of one thousand dollars, and to convert such water-main to the Hauraki Plains East water-supply system.

(2) The Council is hereby authorized to apply the funds of the Hauraki Plains East Water-supply District and the Hauraki Plains East Water-supply Special-rating Area in the manner following:—

• (a) Out of loan or other moneys, to pay to the Public Trustee as Sinking Fund Commissioner for the sinking fund of the Pekapeka Road Water-supply Loan above recited the sum of one thousand dollars in respect of the acquisition of the said water-main of the Pekapeka Road water-supply system:

• (b) In payment and out of revenue moneys only of the interest and the sinking fund instalments of the said Pekapeka Road Water-supply Loan of four thousand dollars as from the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight:

• (c) Out of loan or other moneys, to pay at the maturity of the said Pekapeka Road Water-supply Loan the capital thereof to the extent to which the accumulated sinking fund therefor shall or may be insufficient to liquidate such loan.

(3) The Pekapeka Road Water-supply District is hereby abolished as from the date of the passing of this Act, but the Pekapeka Water-supply Special-rating Area and the special rate or rates constituting the security for the said loan shall remain in full force and effect until such loan shall have been fully redeemed.

The expenditure by the Piako County Council out of its County Fund Account of the sum of eighty-six dollars and eighty-nine and one sixth cents, being part of the costs incurred in celebrating the diamond jubilee of the Piako County, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Council may, in issuing new securities in conversion of the existing securities above referred to, with the consent of the holder of such securities compound the arrears of interest owing in respect of such existing securities and include such arrears in the principal sum secured by such new securities.

(2) The Council may, with the consent of the Lower Mangapiko Drainage Board and the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, assume seven-fortieths of the said liability of the Lower Mangapiko Drainage Board to the said Corporation in respect of the loan raised by that Board and may include in the new securities to be issued, as set out in the last preceding subsection, the share of the principal and interest owing in respect of that loan by the Council.

(3) The Council may in each year during the currency of the new securities to be issued under this section pay out of the General Fund of the county not more than one-half of the annual instalments of interest and principal payable in respect of the new securities.

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Drainage Act 1908, the Counties Act 1920, or in any other Act, the Council may make and levy the special conversion rate pledged in respect of the new securities mentioned in subsection one hereof on a uniform scale on all rateable property within the area comprised in the Tuatuamoana Drainage District immediately prior to the abolition of that district.

(1) The Corporation shall be deemed to have been duly empowered to agree in and by the said agreements to grant in perpetuity to the respective owners of the said lands and their successors or assigns a sufficient supply of water for domestic and farming purposes, subject to the terms and conditions set out in the said agreements which shall have effect and be binding according to the tenor thereof.

(2) All payments heretofore made or hereafter to be made by the Corporation in pursuance of any of the said agreements are hereby declared to be valid and within the powers of the Corporation.

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

• (a) All those pieces of land containing altogether six hundred and forty-nine acres and thirty-eight perches and four-tenths of a perch, being parts of Lot 2 on Deposited Plan Number 8716, parts of Lot 2 on Deposited Plan Number 8717, parts of Lot 2 on Deposited Plan Number 8718, and Lot 2 on Deposited Plan Number 2035, all deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Auckland, the land being situated in the Maungatautari Survey District, and being parts of Blocks II and III, called Maungatautari No 1, No 1A, North No 1A, South No 1, South No 1A, South No 2, being the lands comprised in certificates of title, Volume 636, folio 140, Volume 320, folio 206, Volume 324, folio 124, Volume 259, folio 246, and Volume 109, folio 20, all in the Auckland Registry, all the said pieces of land being vested in Joseph Albert Wallace for an estate in fee-simple:

• (b) All that piece of land containing ninety-three acres one rood, being Lot 1 of the subdivision of Lot 2 on Deposited Plan Number 23054, Auckland Registry, situated in the Cambridge Survey District, called Maungatautari, being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 620, folio 183, Auckland Registry, which land is vested in Percy McCann for an estate in fee-simple:

• (c) All that piece of land containing two hundred and fifty-seven acres and thirteen perches, being part Lot A on Deposited Plan Number 2614, Auckland Registry, part of the block situated in Blocks II and III of the Maungatautari Survey District called Maungatautari Number 1, Section 1, being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 636, folio 139, Auckland Registry, which land is vested in Brian Richard Churchill Townend for an estate in fee-simple.

(1) The amount of the sinking fund set apart in accordance with subsection one of section seven of the said Act in respect of the said advance of fifteen thousand dollars accumulated up to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall forthwith be paid to the General Account of the Council and credited in reduction of the advance.

(2) The aggregate amount of the balances of the said two advances remaining owing to the General Account by the Abattoir Account on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, less the amount credited in accordance with the last preceding subsection shall, together with interest on the amount for the time being unpaid at the rate of four per centum per annum calculated from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, be repaid by the Council from its Abattoir Account to its General Account by fourteen equal annual instalments, the first of such instalments to be repaid on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.

(3) The annual amount payable under the last preceding subsection shall be deemed to be part of the annual cost of the Auckland City Abattoir . . ..

(4) [Repealed]

(5) [Repealed]

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Corporation is hereby empowered, without complying with the provisions of section one hundred and fifty nine of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, to grant to His Majesty the King a lease of the land described in subsection three hereof for the term of twenty-one years, upon and subject to such covenants, conditions, powers, and provisions as may be agreed on by the Corporation and His Majesty the King.

(2) Without limiting the powers conferred by the last preceding subsection, it is hereby declared that the lease therein referred to may include a provision for its perpetual renewal and a provision that no rent shall be payable for such period as may be prescribed therein.

(3) The land hereinbefore referred to is more particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land containing thirty-two perches, be the same a little more or less, being that part of Allotment 9 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 265, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 223, folio 245, Dunedin Registry.

Whereas the Dunedin City Council (hereinafter called the Council) was, by a poll of ratepayers taken on the fourteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, duly authorized to raise a loan of two hundred thousand dollars for the purposes of—firstly, as to the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars, establishing services for the conveyance of passengers and goods in areas not served or not adequately served by any existing tramway, and, secondly, as to the sum of one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars, extending the existing tramway systems under the control of the Council: And whereas of the sum of two hundred thousand dollars so authorized the sum of one hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars was duly raised by way of loan and the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars has been expended on the purposes firstly above mentioned and the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars on the purposes secondly above mentioned: And whereas the Council is now desirous of applying the balance of the loan-moneys so authorized in the purchase of additional motor-buses for the conveyance of passengers and goods, or in or towards the establishment of a cable-tramway service for the like purpose, or otherwise for purposes incidental to the tramway services carried on by the Council: And whereas it is desired to authorize the Council so to apply the said unexpended balance: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, or in any other Act, or in the voting-paper used at the said poll, the Council is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the Local Government Loans Board being obtained, to apply the unexpended balance of thirty-four thousand dollars of the Tramway Extension Loan, 1925, of two hundred thousand dollars, when raised, in the purchase of additional motor-buses for the conveyance of passengers and goods, or in or towards the acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of land, buildings, plant, machinery, and equipment suitable for the carrying on by the Council of a cable-tramway service in the City of Dunedin, or otherwise for purposes incidental to the tramway services carried on by the Council.

Whereas the Manurewa Town Board (hereinafter called the Board) is registered as proprietor—firstly, of all that parcel of land containing four acres one rood and twenty-eight perches, more or less, being Lot 4 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland as Number 12046, and being part of Takaanini's Grant, situated in Block XIV of the Otahuhu Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 631, folio 145, Auckland Registry, and, secondly, of all that parcel of land containing five acres three roods and seventeen perches, more or less, being Lot 5 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland as Number 12046, and being part of Takaanini's Grant, situated in Block XIV of the Otahuhu Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 631, folio 146, Auckland Registry: And whereas the said land is vested in the Board for the purposes of a cemetery but has not been dedicated for nor used as a cemetery: And whereas the former Manurewa Town District has now been constituted a Borough: And whereas the Corporation of the Borough of Manurewa (hereinafter called the Corporation), by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection five of section one hundred and thirty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, has succeeded to all the rights of the Board in respect of the said land: And whereas the said land is unsuitable for the purposes of a cemetery, and the Borough of Manurewa is now sufficiently served by other cemeteries at convenient distances from the borough: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Manurewa Borough Council is hereby empowered to sell the said land or any part thereof, and to apply the purchase-money received therefrom firstly, in payment of all costs and expenses properly incurred in effecting the sale or incidental thereto, and, secondly, in or towards payment of the purchase-price of any other land acquired by the Council for borough purposes, or for the improvement of any other land vested in the Corporation, or in or towards the repayment of any loan raised by the Board for the purpose of acquiring the land above described.

The Whangarei Borough Council is hereby empowered to expend out of its General Account an amount not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars by way of contribution towards the funds of the North Auckland Protestant Orphanage Trustees.

Whereas the Local Government Loans Board on the twentieth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, sanctioned the borrowing in New Zealand by the Rotorua Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) of the sum of twenty-three thousand dollars, by a loan to be known as the Rotorua Borough Sealing and other Improvements Loan, 1935, $23,000, for the purpose of widening and bitumen-sealing borough sections of the Rotorua-Cambridge Main Highway, bitumen-sealing the borough section of the Rotorua-Napier Main Highway, bitumen-sealing the borough section of the Rotorua-Whakatane Main Highway, bitumen-sealing borough streets, bitumen-surfacing footpaths in the borough, concreting footpaths in the borough, erecting a refuse destructor, erecting a public convenience in Hinemoa Street and a convenience and shelters at Whakarewarewa, and permanent formation of Rangiuru Street and Lake frontage, including the purchase of necessary plant: And whereas the Council allocated the sum of one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars out of the said loan-moneys for the erection of a refuse destructor: And whereas since the raising of the said loan the Council has abandoned its intention of proceeding with the erection of a refuse destructor, and now desires to apply the said sum of one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars towards one or more of the other purposes of the said loan: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The sum of one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars allocated by the Council, out of the Rotorua Borough Sealing and other Improvements Loan, 1935, $23,000, for the purpose of the erection of a refuse destructor may be used by the Council for any one or more of the other purposes for which the said loan was raised.

Whereas the Green Island Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) has raised under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, a loan of sixty-four thousand dollars (hereinafter called the said loan) for the purpose of carrying out drainage and sewerage works within the Borough of Green Island: And whereas pursuant to a resolution of the Council passed on the second day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the Council made and levied a special rate of ten cents in the dollar upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Green Island for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on the said loan: And whereas by an Order in Council under the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, dated the twenty-eighth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and published in the Gazette on the third day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, it was declared that as on and from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the parcel of land containing by admeasurement thirteen acres three roods and thirty-three perches, and being all the land comprised in Land Transfer Plans 2403 and 4458, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Dunedin, should be excluded from the County of Taieri and included in the Borough of Green Island: And whereas the Council intends to provide drainage and sewerage works within the area of land so added to the borough and desires to make and levy rates on the land in respect of such works: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby empowered to make and levy the aforesaid rate of ten cents in the dollar over the whole of the area of the Borough of Green Island as it exists on the passing of this Act during the currency of the said loan or until such time as the said loan is fully repaid.

It shall not be necessary for the Wellington City Council in respect of all or any of the financial years within the period commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, to charge the annual appropriation in respect of the tramway and power supply undertaking of the Council prescribed by section three of the Wellington City Trading Departments' Reserve and Renewal Funds Act 1917, as amended by section 3 of the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Act 1922.

(1) The Council is hereby authorized to raise a special loan not exceeding thirty-two thousand dollars by special order and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, and out of the proceeds of the loan to refund to its District Fund all moneys which have been advanced therefrom on account of the cost of the development, improvement, and completion of the works at the Stone Jug Reserve, the Gillies Avenue Reserve, and the Waikumete Cemetery, and to apply the balance of the loan or such part thereof as may be requisite for or towards any charges or expenses incurred in connection with the raising of the loan.

(2) The authority hereby conferred is in lieu of that granted to the Council by section twenty three of the Local Legislation Act 1936, and that section is hereby accordingly repealed.

Whereas the Timaru Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) has issued debentures pursuant to four loans duly authorized by the ratepayers of the Borough of Timaru, called respectively—

Timaru Borough Omnibus Loan, 1936, twenty thousand dollars;

Timaru Borough Airport Loan, 1936, thirty thousand dollars;

Timaru Kerbing and Channelling Loan, 1938, twenty-four thousand dollars; and

Timaru Water-supply Loan, 1938, one hundred and forty-four thousand six hundred dollars:

And whereas the signatures of the persons authorized to sign the coupons attached to the said debentures are lithographed on the coupons: And whereas the persons who signed certain of the said debentures are different from the persons whose lithographed signatures appear on the said coupons: And whereas doubts have been raised as to the validity of the said debentures and it is desired to validate the same: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

All debentures heretofore or hereafter issued by the Council pursuant to the said loans are declared to be valid for all purposes notwithstanding any difference between the signatures appearing on the debentures and those appearing on the coupons attached thereto.

Whereas the Corporation of the City of Auckland (hereinafter called the Corporation) is the mortgagee of certain workers' dwellings in the City of Auckland: And whereas the mortgagor under one of the mortgages of such properties applied under the Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act 1936, for an adjustment of his liabilities, and certain relief in respect of the mortgage was granted to him: And whereas other mortgagors did not so apply within the time limited by the said Act, and it is deemed equitable that the Corporation should be authorized to make adjustments of the liabilities of the mortgagors in respect of certain properties of which it is the mortgagee: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Corporation may at any time within one year from the passing of this Act make such reductions, allowances, and concessions as it may think fit to owners of workers' dwellings in the City of Auckland that are mortgaged to the Corporation.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Local Authorities (Members' Contracts) Act 1934, or in any other Act, John Routly, who at the time of his nomination as a candidate for the office of Mayor of the Borough of Pukekohe and subsequently at the time of his election as Mayor of the borough was a party to a contract with the Pukekohe Borough Council for his services as an architect in connection with the erection of a Maori rest-room by the Council, shall not be deemed to have been disqualified for election as Mayor of the Borough of Pukekohe nor to be disqualified for continuing in such office as Mayor by reason of his being concerned or interested in the said contract nor shall he be deemed to have committed an offence by reason of having done any act as Mayor of the Borough of Pukekohe while concerned or interested in such contract.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Burial and Cremation Act 1964, or in any other Act, the Wellington City Council is hereby authorized and empowered to use for cemetery purposes the lands described in subsection two of this section.

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

• (a) All that piece of land situate in the Land District of Wellington, containing eight acres twenty-four perches and ninety-four one-hundredths of a perch, be the same a little more or less, being part Section 33, Karori District, and part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 404, folio 268, the said piece of land being delineated on a plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, Number 332/111, being thereon coloured blue; and

• (b) All that piece or parcel of land situated in the Land District of Wellington, containing one acre thirty-five perches and forty-nine one-hundredths of a perch, be the same a little more or less, being part of Section 33, Karori District, City of Wellington, being also Lots 37 to 44 inclusive on a plan deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington as Number 9848, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 435, folio 54.

Notwithstanding anything in the Urban Farm Land Rating Act 1932, the farm-land roll made under that Act for the Borough of Marton, as signed by two members of the Marton Borough Council on the twenty-seventh day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said Act, or in any other Act, the liability of the Council to its bankers by way of overdraft at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, in excess of the limit allowed by the said Act is hereby declared to have been lawfully incurred.

(2) A sum (hereinafter referred to as the said sum) equal to the amount in excess of the limit fixed by paragraph (c) of subsection two of section three of the said Act owing on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, by the Council to its bankers in respect of the said overdraft shall be repaid by the Council out of the moneys credited to its General Account, and such repayment shall be made by equal annual payments of a sum amounting to not less than one-tenth of the said sum in each year during the period of ten years commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight:

Provided that the Council may in any year repay an amount greater than such tenth part.

(3) The said sum shall not at any time heretofore be deemed to have been taken into account, nor shall any amount at any time lawfully owing under this section hereafter be taken into account, in determining the amount that may be borrowed or that may be owed by the Council pursuant to section three of the said Act.

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

(2) The Council is hereby authorized to apply the said public subscriptions and also to pay out of its General Account a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred and seventy dollars for the purpose of satisfying the liabilities incurred as aforesaid.

(3) Any expenditure made by the Council out of the District Fund to meet the said liabilities is hereby validated.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section two hundred and fifty six of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the Newmarket Borough Council may contract with the Auckland City Council for such supply of water as the Borough Council may require for all purposes for a period not exceeding twenty-one years, and without the period of such contract being previously approved by a poll of electors.

(2) While any such contract is in force the provisions of subsection three of section two hundred and fifty-three of the said Act shall not apply with respect to the supply of water in terms of such contract.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, it shall be deemed to have been lawful for the Patea Borough Council to sell all that land being Section 12, Block XXXVI, Borough of Patea, being part of the land contained in Crown grant, Volume 1, folio 257, in the Taranaki Registry, and to dispose of the proceeds of such sale in the manner provided in subsection two of section four of the Patea Borough Council Empowering Act 1930.

Notwithstanding anything contained in section eight of the Wellington City Trading Departments' Reserve and Renewal Funds Act 1917, or in any other Act, the Wellington City Council may, subject to the provisions of the said Act relating to applications to the Wellington City Renewal Fund Commissioners for payments of money, for a period of two years commencing on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, lawfully demand and receive from the said Commissioners and use for the purpose of extensions of the electric-light and power-supply undertaking referred to in the said Act all moneys in excess of the sum of two hundred thousand dollars from time to time held in investments or cash in respect of the renewal fund for the electric-light and power-supply undertaking under the said Act, and known as the Electricity Renewal Fund.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Municipal Corporations Act 1933 (hereinafter called the said Act), or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Napier Borough Council, subject to compliance with section one hundred and ninety three of the said Act, to lay out and dedicate or accept dedication as streets within the meaning of section one hundred and seventy four of the said Act, and to take under the Public Works Act 1928, or otherwise acquire as and for the purposes of streets, the private ways or pieces of land mentioned and described in subsection two of this section.

(2) This section refers to the following private ways or pieces of land, namely:—

• (a) All that private way or piece of land known as Lawrence Lane, containing by admeasurement thirty-six perches and nine-tenths of a perch, more or less, being parts of Suburban Section 10, Napier, and being Lot 1 on a plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Napier under Number 6663:

• (b) All that private way or piece of land being an extension of the street known as Park Road, containing by admeasurement twenty-eight perches and one-tenth of a perch, more or less, being part of Suburban Section 5, Napier, and being Lot 1 on a plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Napier under Number 6662.

(1) The Corporation may expend the whole or any part of the moneys received in respect of the taking of such land in or towards the erection or purchase of municipal buildings.

(2) The Corporation shall establish a sinking fund to be administered by the Public Trustee by paying to the Public Trustee an annual sum of seventy-seven dollars and eighty-six and two-third cents on the first day of September in each year commencing on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, for a period of fifty years, and the fund so created shall upon the expiration of the said period be held and applied in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.

(3) Any surplus moneys remaining in the hands of the Corporation after the erection or purchase of such buildings shall be used and applied in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.

(1) The said Whitaker Street and the street known as Graham's Landing are hereby closed, and shall vest together with the said land in the name of His Majesty the King for the purposes of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1919.

(2) The said agreement is hereby declared to be valid and binding on the parties thereto and in so far as the consideration mentioned therein is to be expended on dedicated streets, such expenditure is hereby authorized.

(1) The expenditure by the Auckland Harbour Board (hereinafter called the Board) during the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight of—

• (a) The sum of four hundred dollars in the reception and entertainment of the complement of the Imperial Airways Flying Boat Centaurus; and

• (b) The sum of five hundred dollars as a contribution to the Memorial Fund to the late Captain Edwin C Musick and crew of the Pan - American Airways Flying Boat Samoan Clipper,—

is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

(2) The Board is hereby empowered to expend out of its Harbour Fund the sum of one thousand dollars towards the cost of the erection of a beacon as a memorial to the late Captain Edwin C Musick and crew of the Pan-American Airways Flying Boat Samoan Clipper.

The Auckland Harbour Board is hereby empowered to expend out of its Harbour Fund the sum of one thousand dollars as a contribution to the Auckland City Council towards the cost of the work of regrading Nelson Street in the City of Auckland.

Whereas the Tararua Electric-power Board when carrying out the procedure incidental to the raising of a loan of eighty thousand dollars, known as the Akitio County Reticulation Loan, 1938, took a poll of the ratepayers concerned prior to obtaining the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board contrary to the statutory provisions relating to such loans: And whereas the Local Government Loans Board has sanctioned the raising of the loan subject to such irregularity being validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the action of the Board in taking the said poll prior to the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board being obtained is hereby validated and declared to have been lawful.

(1) It is hereby declared that the amount that the Board may raise by way of special loan under the authority of section thirty of the Finance Act (No 2) 1936, shall not exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars.

(2) Notwithstanding that certain of the lands to which this section relates are outside the district of the Board, the whole of such lands shall be deemed to be a defined part of the district within the meaning of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926.

(3) The Board is hereby empowered to classify the lands to which this section relates as provided by section thirty-three of the Land Drainage Act 1908, and, for the purpose of securing the repayment of any special loan raised under the authority of the said section thirty and interest thereon, to make, levy, collect, appropriate, and pledge as security a special rate over the whole of the said lands notwithstanding that certain of the said lands are outside the district of the Board.

(4) The special-rating area to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

• (a) All that land, being part of the land described in Schedule 1 of the Ellesmere Land Drainage Act 1905, situated in the Halswell, Ellesmere, Southbridge, and Leeston Survey Districts, and being that part of the district of the Board known as the Lake Subdivision, excluding therefrom Reserve No 3048 and Reserve No 4349; and

• (b) All that land situated in the Southbridge and Leeston Survey Districts, and described in subsection 2 of section eighty-eight of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1917.

The payment by the Wairau River Board out of its General Fund of the sum of fifty dollars during each of the financial years ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, respectively, as an honorarium to the Chairman of the Board is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Raupo Drainage Board (hereinafter called the Board) entered into a contract on the fourteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, for the cleaning and maintenance of drains and canals in the Board's area for a period of two years: And whereas the Board found it necessary, in order to retain the services of the contractors, to vary the contract and grant an increase in the contract price: And whereas there was no authority for such action: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the Board in varying the said contract by granting an increase in the contract price is hereby validated.

(1) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Hawke's Bay is hereby empowered and directed to issue to and in the name of the Hawke's Bay Rivers Board, without payment of any fees, a certificate of title for the said pieces of land.

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

All those areas in the Hawke's Bay Land District containing together eleven acres one rood twelve perches, more or less, situated in the Taradale Town District, being parts Block I, Puketapu Crown Grant District, parts Suburban Sections 50 and 51, Meeanee, and being Lots numbered 1, 2, and 3 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Napier under Number 4127.

The Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board is hereby authorized to pay to Alice Smith, widow of the late William Milner Smith, formerly an employee of the Board, a sum not exceeding two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty cents, being the balance of retiring leave pay granted to the said William Milner Smith but not drawn by him at the date of his death.

(1) Notwithstanding the purchase by the Board of the said debentures, the Board shall have and shall be deemed always to have had power to reissue the said debentures either by reissuing the same debentures or by issuing other debentures in their place; and upon such a reissue the person entitled to the debentures shall have and shall be deemed always to have had the same rights as if the debentures had never been redeemed.

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

Debentures numbered 1310 to 1329 inclusive, of one thousand dollars each, dated the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, being part of Renewal Loan (No 2) 1934 of $369,000, bearing interest at three dollars and seventy-five cents per centum per annum, and maturing on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.

(1) The Board may in issuing new securities in conversion of the existing securities above referred to, with the consent in each case of the holder of such securities, compound the arrears of interest owing in respect of the existing securities and include the arrears in the principal sum secured by the new securities.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Land Drainage Act 1908, the Rating Amendment Act 1935, or any other Act, the Board shall, so long as any moneys remain owing on any of the said new securities, levy the rates appropriated and pledged in respect of these securities on the basis of the classification of the land in the Board's district made in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen.

(1) In this section the term worker means and includes every person, male or female, who is employed in work of any kind by the Trust; and worker's dwelling includes the areas of land appurtenant to the three workers' dwellings respectively above referred to.

(2) The Trust may complete the erection of the building firstly above referred to, and may erect two other buildings suitable for workers' dwellings on the respective areas secondly above referred to.

(3) The Trust may let to a worker or lease to a worker for a term not exceeding ten years any of the said workers' dwellings, and any such tenancy may be disposed of by private contract, public auction, or public tender.

(4) The provisions of section one hundred and ninety two of the Counties Act 1920, shall, so far as they are consistent with this section, apply, with the necessary modifications, to the said dwellings.

(5) If at any time any of the said workers' dwellings is not required for the use and occupation of a worker the Trust is hereby authorized and empowered to let the said dwelling by public auction, public tender, or private contract, for any term not exceeding twelve months, and to any person not employed by the Trust, at such rent and upon such terms and other conditions as the Trust in its discretion may think fit.

(6) In the event of the Trust being of opinion that any of the said workers' dwellings is no longer required for the purposes of a dwelling or a dwelling for workers, the Trust may deal with the land or any part thereof in all respects as if this section had not been passed:

Provided that in the event of any such land being sold the Trust is hereby authorized and required to set aside the purchase-money or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of the repayment of any portion of any loan raised under this section and which may then remain owing.

(7) The payment of all moneys already paid by the Trust in connection with the erection of the dwelling firstly above mentioned is hereby validated, and the Trust is hereby empowered, in its discretion, out of its General Fund, to pay further sums in the completion of the said dwellinghouse firstly above mentioned and the improvement of the area appurtenant thereto and in the erection of the two workers' dwellings and the improvement of the areas appurtenant thereto secondly above mentioned respectively:

Provided that the total sum expended for the said purposes shall not exceed eight thousand dollars.

(8) The Trust may by special order raise a special loan or special loans under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of eight thousand dollars for any of the purposes mentioned in this section without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, and may out of the proceeds of any such loan refund to its General Fund moneys paid out of that fund for any of the said purposes.

The payments by the North Canterbury Hospital Board of the sum of one thousand dollars to the widow of the late William Shakespear Wharton, formerly Secretary to the Board, and of the sum of four hundred and seventy dollars to the widow of the late William Henry Harrop, formerly Clerk of Works to the Board, as compassionate allowances are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Wairoa Hospital Board (hereinafter called the Board) has made the following payments to the National Provident Fund under the National Provident Fund Act 1926, in respect of the following employees of the Board, namely:—

For the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, the sum of forty-seven dollars and forty cents in respect of Isabel Banks and Linda May Grant;

For the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the sum of forty-seven dollars and forty cents in respect of the said Isabel Banks and Linda May Grant; and

For the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, the sum of fourteen dollars and seventy cents in respect of the said Isabel Banks:

And whereas such payments were made without lawful authority and it is desirable to validate the payments so made: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payments made by the Board of the aforesaid sums amounting in all to the sum of one hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Nelson Fire Board (hereinafter called the Board) entered into a contract with the Vigilant Automatic Fire Alarm Company, Limited (hereinafter called the company), on the twenty-ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, for the installation of a street fire-alarm system in the City of Nelson: And whereas, owing to the cost of such installation having increased since the date of the contract, the Board has agreed to pay the company the sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars and five cents in addition to the contract price for the installation: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board is hereby empowered and authorized to pay to the company the said additional sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars and five cents.

All 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-nine, such sums as they think fit, not exceeding in any case, the respective amounts hereinafter specified, namely:—

The Wellington Hospital Board, two thousand five hundred dollars;

The Wellington Harbour Board, six hundred dollars;

The Hutt County Council, three hundred dollars; and

The Makara County Council, one hundred and seventy-two dollars.

(1) The Waikato County Council is hereby authorized to pay a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars as a grant to the Roose Shipping Company, Limited, in respect of the loss sustained by the said company in the erection of the bridge over the Waikato River known as the Fairfield Bridge.

(2) The Hamilton Borough Council is hereby authorized to pay to the Waikato County Council a sum not exceeding eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-nine and one sixth cents as a contribution to such grant, and the Waipa County Council is hereby authorized to pay to the Waikato County Council a sum not exceeding two hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-one and two thirds cents as a contribution to such grant.

(3) The grant heretofore mentioned shall be considered for all purposes as part of the cost of the erection of the said Fairfield Bridge and may be paid from loan-moneys heretofore or hereafter raised for the purposes of such work.

Whereas by agreement bearing date the nineteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and made between the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Manukau (hereinafter called the Council), of the one part, and the Papatoetoe Town Board (hereinafter called the Board), of the other part, the Council agreed to extend its water-mains and to install a water-meter at a point in Grey Avenue: And whereas the said agreement contains certain provisions relating to the control of the said meter and the supply of water through the meter: And whereas by agreement bearing date the nineteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and made between the same parties, the Council agreed to lay certain water-mains in the special-rating area to which the Papatoetoe Water-supply Extension Loan, 1936, relates, for the purpose of completing the circuit with the Board's service-mains at Cornwall Road and Great South Road and to provide supplies of water and fire-fighting facilities in the said area: And whereas the said agreement contains certain provisions relating to the control and use of the new service-mains and the supply of water through the mains: And whereas doubts have arisen as to whether the said parties have power to enter into the said agreements: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding the provisions of the Counties Act 1920, or the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the Council and the Board shall respectively be deemed to have had power to enter into the said agreements and the agreements are hereby declared to be valid and binding according to the tenor thereof.

The Municipal Association of New Zealand (Incorporated) is hereby authorized to pay out of the funds of the Association to the President of the Association an honorarium amounting to two hundred dollars in respect of his services to the Association for the year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Whereas by section six of the Auckland Transport Board Empowering Act 1934, the Auckland Transport Board (hereinafter called the Board) is empowered to raise a special loan by special order for the purpose of purchasing or completing the purchase of debentures originally issued by the Auckland City Council but in respect of which the said Council has been indemnified by the Board: And whereas by Order in Council issued on the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, consent was given to the Board for the raising of a special loan of one million dollars for the purchase of the above-mentioned debentures and for other purposes: And whereas before the issue of the said Order in Council and before the making of any special order by the Board the Board purchased certain of the said debentures and paid for the same out of the Transport Fund Account: And whereas the Board now desires authority to reimburse the Transport Fund Account out of the proceeds of the said special loan for the moneys so paid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board is hereby authorized and empowered out of the proceeds of the said loan to refund to its Transport Fund Account all moneys heretofore or hereafter advanced thereout on account of the purchase of the said debentures.