Whereas the Cheviot County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is registered as the proprietor of an estate in fee-simple in all that parcel of land situated in the Town of Mackenzie, containing by admeasurement two roods, more or less, being Sections 14 and 15, Block 28, of the said Town of Mackenzie, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 365, folio 276, Christchurch Registry: And whereas a dwellinghouse has been erected on the said parcel of land by the Council for the purpose of being used as a medical practitioner's residence: And whereas on the thirtieth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-one, the Council granted to the medical practitioner for the time being practising in the Town of Cheviot the right to use and occupy the said land and dwellinghouse free of all rent and other outgoings: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the action of the Council in so doing: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the Council in granting the use and occupation of the said land and dwellinghouse free of rent and other outgoings as from the thirtieth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-one, is hereby validated, and the Council is hereby empowered to continue to allow any medical practitioner for the time being practising in the Town of Cheviot to use and occupy the said land and dwellinghouse free of rent and other outgoings until the expiration of four years from the termination of the present war or during such shorter period as the Council may think advisable.

Whereas during the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three, the Eltham County Council expended the sum of three hundred and seventy-two dollars and five-sixths of a cent in and towards the maintenance of and improvements to the Ngaire Public Cemetery, which in terms of the Cemeteries Act 1908, is vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Eltham: And whereas that expenditure, except as to the sum of sixty dollars, was incurred without lawful authority: And whereas it is desirable to validate the action of the Council in incurring that expenditure: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in section 201 of the Counties Act 1920, or in any other Act, the action of the Eltham County Council in expending the said sum of three hundred and seventy-two dollars and five-sixths of a cent is hereby validated, and the said moneys shall be deemed to have been lawfully expended.

Whereas the Franklin County Council (in this section referred to as the Council), by contracts made with W Stevenson and Sons, Limited, a company duly incorporated and having its registered office at Pukekohe (hereinafter called the contractor), engaged the contractor to execute certain works for the reconstruction, metalling, and surfacing of roads under the following contracts—namely, Contract Number 970, Drury-Awhitu Main Highway Number 873 (Paerata-Runciman section), dated the seventeenth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight; Contract Number 896, Pukekohe-Bombay Main Highway Number 403, dated the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine; Contract Number 1007, Papakura-Titi Main Highway Number 464 (Papakura-Kingseat section), dated the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine; and Contract Number 1005, Drury-Awhitu Main Highway Number 873 (Glenbrook-Waiuku section), dated the twentieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine: And whereas in the execution of the said road works a quantity of road oil in excess of the quantities provided for in the schedules to the said contracts was found necessary for the proper completion of the said road works, and was accordingly procured and applied by the contractor upon the order of the Council: And whereas by reason of war conditions the cost of the excess road oil used as aforesaid exceeded by the sum of one thousand one hundred and ten dollars the cost of the same amount of road oil at the rates specified in the schedules to the said contracts: And whereas the Council has paid to the contractor such additional sum of one thousand one hundred and ten dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding that the sum so paid was computed at a rate in excess of the rates specified in the said contracts, the said payment is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made in all respects as if the same had been made pursuant to and at the rates specified in the schedules to the said contracts.

Whereas the Little River Town Hall Company, Limited (in this section referred to as the company), being a company duly incorporated and having its registered office in the Township of Little River, is the lessee under Deed of Lease Number 17289, from His Majesty the King, of all that parcel of land containing thirty-two perches, more or less, being Lot 11, part Railway Reserve, Little River, the said lease having a term of twenty-one years from the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven: And whereas the company is desirous of assigning and transferring to the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Wairewa (in this section referred to as the Corporation) all its estate and interest in the said land under the said deed of lease, together with all its rights in connection with the Town Hall and all other buildings erected thereon, upon such terms as may be arranged: And whereas the majority of the members of the Wairewa County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) are interested as directors or shareholders of the company: And whereas it is unlawful for the members of the Council so interested to vote on, or take any part in the discussion upon, the question of the acquisition by the Council of the estate and interest of the company under the said deed of lease and its rights in respect of the Town Hall and other buildings as aforesaid, and accordingly it is not possible to obtain a quorum under section 81 of the Counties Act 1920, for the purpose of considering that question at a meeting of the Council: And whereas it is desirable, for the purposes of considering and deciding whether the Council should or should not acquire the estate, interest, and rights of the company as aforesaid, that such of the members of the Council as are not shareholders of the company should be deemed to constitute a quorum: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in section 81 of the Counties Act 1920, such of the members of the Council for the time being as are not interested as shareholders of the company shall be deemed to be a quorum of the Council for the purpose of transacting at any meeting any business in connection with the acquisition of the company's estate, interest, and rights as aforesaid, and in particular for the purpose of considering and (if thought fit) of acquiring on behalf of the Corporation, for such consideration and upon such terms as the Council thinks fit, such estate, interest, and rights.

Whereas the Southland County Council (in this section referred to as the Council), by a special order passed on the twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and confirmed on the thirteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, made and levied, for the purpose of providing for the expenses of the removal of nightsoil in an area in the County of Southland defined by the said special order and therein called the Waikiwi Sanitary Area, a uniform annual charge, in lieu of a separate rate, upon all such properties within the area as have a house or houses erected thereon, and the Council has levied a similar uniform annual charge in each succeeding year: And whereas some of the properties within the area now have septic tanks installed thereon: And whereas the Council is desirous of relieving ratepayers from liability for the uniform annual charge levied for the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three, upon those properties on which septic tanks are installed as aforesaid, and of refunding to the ratepayers who have paid the uniform annual charge for that year in respect of such properties the amounts paid by them: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby empowered to waive the payment, with respect to any property in the abovementioned Waikiwi Sanitary Area upon which a septic tank was installed on or before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-two, of the uniform annual charge payable for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three, in respect of the removal of nightsoil, and also to refund to any ratepayer who has paid the uniform annual charge for that year in respect of any such property as aforesaid the amount so paid by him.

Whereas during the six years ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, the water charges levied by the Selwyn County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) and paid by the late Forbes O'Rorke were assessed on the whole of his property, of which property an area amounting to one thousand four hundred and eighty-two acres and one rood, more or less, was not watered with water supplied from the Council's races, and the charges on this area amounted to the sum of one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-three and a third cents: And whereas the Council, having in subsequent years refunded the sum of sixty-four dollars in pursuance of the provisions of subsection 3 of section one hundred and twenty-nine of the Public Revenues Act 1926, desires to refund the balance of water charges so overpaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized to refund to the trustees of the estate of the late Forbes O'Rorke the sum of one hundred and three dollars and thirty-three and a third cents.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Corporation of the County of Mackenzie (in this section referred to as the Corporation) to accept a transfer of all that piece of land situated in the Tengawai Survey District, containing five acres and fifteen perches, more or less, being part of Lot 9 on Deposited Plan Number 2690, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 173, folio 56, known as the Strathconan Recreation-ground, and to hold the said land subject to the terms of and upon the trusts declared in and by a certain deed of trust dated the seventeenth day of November, nineteen hundred and nine, and executed by Anna Jessie McLean, Catherine Julia McLean, and Sydney John Cook, and to exercise all the powers and duties of the trustees and managers as set out in the said deed of trust.

(2) The executors or administrators of the last-surviving trustee mentioned in the said deed of trust, with the consent of the surviving managers appointed under the said deed, are hereby authorized to execute in favour of the Corporation a transfer of the land described in the last preceding subsection, and the said executors and administrators and the said managers are hereby authorized to assign, transfer, and hand over to the Corporation all moneys and other assets held by them in trust in connection with the said Strathconan Recreation-ground, after deducting from those moneys all expenses of and incidental to the transfer, the said moneys and other assets to be used by the Corporation for the purposes set out in the said deed of trust.

Whereas the Richmond Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) was, by a poll of the ratepayers of the borough taken on the twelfth day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-two, authorized to raise a special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, of eighteen thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing a pipe-line from Poorman's Valley Road, Stoke, to connect the present borough water-supply system with the Roding River waterworks constructed by the Nelson City Council under the Nelson Waterworks Extension Act 1935: And whereas no portion of the special loan has been raised: And whereas by reason of increased costs the sum of eighteen thousand dollars will not be sufficient to enable the Council to complete the work for which the said loan was authorized: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

For the purpose of meeting the additional costs of constructing the said pipe-line the Council is hereby authorized to borrow an amount or amounts not exceeding in the aggregate a sum of four thousand five hundred dollars by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, by special order and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 256 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, or in any other Act, the Richmond Borough Council may contract, for any period not exceeding twenty-one years at one time, with the Nelson City Council as owners of waterworks constructed under the powers conferred by the Nelson Waterworks Extension Act 1935, for the supply of water from such waterworks to the Borough of Richmond, without the period of any such contract being previously approved by a poll of electors.

(2) While any such contract is in force the provisions of subsection 3 of section two hundred and fifty-three of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, shall not apply with respect to the supply of water in terms of the contract.

(1) The raising of the said loan is hereby validated and the debentures issued in respect thereof shall be deemed to have been lawfully executed and issued by the Council.

(2) The special rate mentioned in the said debentures shall be deemed to have been lawfully appropriated and pledged by the Council as security for the said loan.

Whereas there remain as debit entries in the records or books of account of the Westport Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) the sum of two hundred and three dollars and fifty-eight and a third cents in respect of gas, and the sum of three hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-four and a sixth cents in respect of electricity, intended by the Council to have been supplied by the Council gratuitously to the Westport Returned Soldiers' Association (Incorporated) prior to the year nineteen hundred and forty-two: And whereas the Council desires to remit and write off from its books of account the said debit entries: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

It shall be lawful for the Council to remit and write off from its books of account and records the respective debit entries of two hundred and three dollars and fifty-eight and a third cents in respect of gas, and of three hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-four and a sixth cents in respect of electricity, supplied by the Council to the Westport Returned Soldiers' Association (Incorporated) prior to the year nineteen hundred and forty-two.

Whereas Jellicoe Drive, being a street situated in the Town of Hamilton East, is vested in the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hamilton: And whereas the said Jellicoe Drive is a street along the bank of the Waikato River: And whereas it is desirable that those portions of Jellicoe Drive shown coloured green on a plan deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington as Number 115211, and containing respectively nine perches and seven-tenths of a perch, more or less, and thirty-six perches, more or less, should be stopped: And whereas the remainder of the said Jellicoe Drive is more than two hundred links in width: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (h) of subsection four of section one hundred and seventy-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the Hamilton Borough Council may, in the manner and upon the conditions set out in Schedule 5 to that Act, stop those portions of Jellicoe Drive in the Town of Hamilton East shown coloured green on a plan deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington as Number 115211 and containing respectively nine perches and seven-tenths of a perch, more or less, and thirty-six perches, more or less.

The Palmerston North City Council may, out of its General Account, pay to George John Franklin, of Palmerston North, labourer, an employee of the said Council, the sum of two hundred dollars by way of compassionate allowance in respect of an injury suffered by the said George John Franklin during the course of his employment with the said Council in or about the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five.

Whereas there was created in terms of subclause 1 of clause twenty of the Dunedin City Loans Conversion Order 1934 (in this section referred to as the said Order) a consolidated sinking fund to provide funds for the repayment of new securities issued pursuant to the provisions of the said Order: And whereas there was transferred to the Commissioners of the consolidated sinking fund in terms of subclause (c) of clause twenty-three of the said Order the sum of eighty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars (in this section referred to as the said sum): And whereas subclause 2 of clause twenty of the said Order provides that the Dunedin City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) shall permanently appropriate and shall pay to the Commissioners of the consolidated sinking fund on each first day of April following the conversion date up to and including the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, a contribution of eighty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars, increased in respect of each contribution by a sum equal to four per centum of the aggregate amount of new securities redeemable up to and including the first day of April preceding the date on which such contribution is payable: And whereas such payments will provide for the repayment in full of the new securities issued under the said Order: And whereas in determining the amount to be permanently appropriated under the provisions of subclause 2 of clause twenty of the said Order the said sum of eighty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty-six was not taken into account: And whereas the said sum, together with accumulations of interest thereon, had increased to the sum of one hundred and eight thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars and twelve and a half cents at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-two: And whereas it is desirable that on the first day of April in each year a portion of the past and future income from the investment of the said sum should be made available in reduction of the annual amount payable by the Council under the said Order, and that the amount so payable on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-four, should in like manner be further reduced in order to refund to the Council, in respect of the amounts so paid by the Council on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-two, and the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-three, respectively, the sums that would then have been deducted from the amounts so paid if such portions of income as aforesaid had been made available for that purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the said Order, the sum payable by the Council to the Dunedin City Sinking Fund Commissioners in terms of subclause 2 of clause twenty of the said Order on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-four, may be reduced by the sum of fourteen thousand nine hundred and four dollars, and the sum so payable on every first day of April thereafter may be reduced by the sum of four thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars.

Whereas the Gisborne Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is desirous of obtaining authority to remit arrears of rates for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three, amounting to eighty-five dollars and fifty cents, being the rates levied by the Council and due and payable by the Gisborne and East Coast Young Men's Christian Association (Incorporated) in respect of that piece of land situated in the Borough of Gisborne, containing one rood and thirty-six perches, more or less, being Lot 1, Deposited Plan 3003, of 6A Fitzherbert Street, situated in Fitzherbert Street, in the Borough of Gisborne, and numbered 3228 on the district valuation roll for that borough: And whereas the Council has no legal authority to make such remission: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized to remit the sum of eighty-five dollars and fifty cents, being the total amount of the said rates, and to absolve the said association and the said lands from liability in respect thereof.

(1) The Council may for the purpose of meeting the cost of making the said extensions and improvements to the Levin Municipal Abattoir borrow a further amount not exceeding the sum of six thousand nine hundred dollars, by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act.

(2) The Council may out of the proceeds of such loan refund to its General Account all moneys advanced thereout, whether before or after the passing of this Act, on account of the cost of making such extensions and improvements to the Levin Municipal Abattoir.

(1) The transfer made by the Council, without consideration, of the land hereinafter described shall be deemed to have been lawfully made.

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

All that area in the Borough of Thames, containing by admeasurement one acre three roods twenty-seven perches and two-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Allotments 66, 67, 68, 70, and 72, and parts of Allotments 65 and 69, Kauaeranga S No 28B Block, and Allotment 75 and part of Allotment 74, Whakaruahi Block.

Whereas the Eketahuna Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three, contracted to pay and did pay to the Mayor of the Borough of Eketahuna (in this section referred to as the Mayor) sums amounting in the aggregate to fifty-five dollars and forty cents, which amount exceeded by the sum of five dollars and forty cents the amount that might lawfully be paid in any financial year, under the provisions of the Local Authorities (Members Contracts) Act 1934, to the Mayor in respect of any contracts made with him by the Council: And whereas the greater part of the moneys so contracted to be paid to the Mayor were payable in respect of urgent work done for the Council by the Mayor under emergency conditions arising out of the severe earthquake which occurred in the Borough of Eketahuna on the twenty-fourth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-two: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Local Authorities (Members Contracts) Act 1934, or in any other Act, the payment by the Council to the Mayor during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three, of sums of money amounting in the aggregate to fifty-five dollars and forty cents, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made, and the Mayor shall not be deemed to have been disqualified for continuing to hold office as Mayor by reason of his being concerned or interested in the contracts in respect of which the said sums were paid, nor shall he be deemed to have committed any offence by reason of having done any act as Mayor while concerned or interested in the said contracts.

(1) The reservation as a recreation reserve of the land described in subsection 3 of this section is hereby cancelled and the said land is hereby declared to be vested in the Corporation as an endowment for the benefit of the City of Invercargill freed and discharged from all trusts heretofore affecting the land.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Southland is hereby directed and empowered to call in and endorse such titles, to make such entries in the Register, and generally to do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

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

All that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement nineteen acres three roods and one perch, more or less, being Lot 11 and part Lot 14, DP 2320, Southland Land Registry, and being part of Section 10, Block III, Invercargill Hundred, and part of Block LXXVII, Town of Invercargill, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the northern side of Spey Street and the north-eastern side of Bond Street, and proceeding in a north-westerly direction along the said north-eastern side of Bond Street, for 145 links, to the southern most corner of Lot 9, DP 2320 aforesaid; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern boundaries of the said Lot 9 and Lots 8, 7, 6, and 5, DP 2320 aforesaid, for 915 links, to the north-eastern corner of the last-mentioned lot; thence in a westerly direction along the northern boundary of the aforesaid Lot 5, Bond Street, and Lot 4, DP 2320 aforesaid, for 425.92 links, to the north-western corner of the last-mentioned lot; thence in a north-easterly direction on a bearing of 5° 05′, for 1062 links, to the southern side of a public street; thence in an easterly direction along the said southern side of the public street, for 1220.85 links, to the western side of the Invercargill-Kingston Railway Reserve; thence in a south-easterly, south-westerly, again south-easterly, north-easterly, and again south-easterly direction along the south-western, north-western, south-western, south-eastern, and south-western boundaries of the said Invercargill-Kingston Railway Reserve, for 367.71 links, 100 links, 550 links, 100 links, and 312.65 links respectively, to the north-eastern corner of the Gasworks Reserve, being other part of Block LXXVII; thence in a westerly and southerly direction along the northern and western boundaries of the said Gasworks Reserve, for 472.67 links and 878.09 links respectively, to the northern side of Spey Street; thence in a westerly direction along the said northern side of Spey Street, for 458.38 links, to the commencing-point: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

Notwithstanding that the Clinton Town Board (in this section referred to as the Board) has not fulfilled, in respect of the rates heretofore demanded by it for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-two, all the requirements of the Rating Act 1925, or of any other Act relating to the making and levying of rates, all rates demanded by the Board for that year shall be deemed to have been lawfully made, levied, and demanded, and any subsidy that would have been payable to the Board in respect of rates collected by the Board for that year if those rates had in fact been lawfully made and levied shall be payable accordingly.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Town Boards Act 1908 Repealed, or in any other Act, the arrangements heretofore entered into by the Board with certain persons relating to the drawing of water from the Board's wells and to the payment of certain annual charges in respect thereof are hereby validated.

(2) The Board may, upon such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, permit any person owning or occupying property in the Normanby Town District to draw water from the Board's wells.

(3) The authority conferred on the Board by this section shall cease and determine on the thirty-first day of March next following the completion of the installation of the Board's water-supply.

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

(2) The Board is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of the Harbours Act 1923, to raise by special resolution, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, a special loan of one hundred thousand dollars, and to pay the proceeds of the loan into its Harbour Fund Account for the purpose of refunding to that account a portion of the aforesaid expenditure.

(3) The provisions of the Napier Harbour Board Loan Act 1933, shall, except so far as they are inconsistent with this section, apply to the special loan authorized by the last preceding subsection.

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Finance Act 1921-22, the Harbours Act 1923, or any other Act, the Board may, pending the raising of the said loan of one hundred thousand dollars, borrow and owe by way of excess overdraft a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and such excess overdraft as may at any time be owing by the Board under the authority of this section shall not be taken into account in determining the amount that may be borrowed and owed by the Board by way of overdraft under the authority contained in the Local Bodies Finance Act 1921-22:

Provided that if the said loan of one hundred thousand dollars is not raised before the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-five, the Board shall repay the amount of such excess overdraft not later than the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and shall in the meantime repay in each financial year commencing in the year ending on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-five, such part of the said excess overdraft as the Local Government Loans Board fixes for that financial year.

(5) This section is in substitution for section 24 of the Local Legislation Act 1942, and that section is hereby consequentially repealed.

Whereas the Otago Central Electric-power Board (in this section referred to as the Board), by a poll of ratepayers on the twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, was authorized to proceed with the raising of a loan of twenty thousand dollars, to be known as the Poolburn Reticulation Loan, 1938, for the purpose of erecting a transmission line to the area in the Poolburn District added to the Otago Central Electric-power District by Proclamation dated the fourteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the sixteenth day of that month, and for the reticulation of that area: And whereas before the Board proceeded to raise the said loan war broke out, and in view of the necessity to conserve materials for national works the said reticulation works could not be carried out: And whereas, pursuant to section 16 of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, the authority to raise the said loan lapsed on the twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three: And whereas it is desirable to extend the said authority for a further period of five years from the said twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The authority granted to the Board by the ratepayers at the said poll held on the twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, is hereby extended for a term of five years from the twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three.

Whereas it is provided by section 47 of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, that an Electric-power Board may provide public offices within the electric-power district: And whereas it is expedient that public offices of the North Auckland Electric-power Board be established within the Borough of Whangarei, which is not within the boundaries of the Board's district: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 47 of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, the North Auckland Electric-power Board is hereby authorized to establish a branch office, depot, and store within the Borough of Whangarei, and for that purpose shall have all the powers conferred upon Electric-power Boards by the said section forty-seven as if the said branch office, depot, and store were public offices within the Board's district.

Whereas the Onehunga Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Borough Council) and the Manukau County Council (in this section referred to as the County Council) entered into an agreement dated the twenty-seventh day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-three, of which a certified copy is recorded in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington under Number I A 105/286, whereby the Borough Council agreed to supply and the County Council agreed to take a supply of water upon the terms and conditions therein set out: And whereas it is desirable to validate the said agreement: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the Counties Act 1920, or any other Act, the Borough Council and the County Council shall be deemed to have had power to enter into the said agreement, which shall be binding on the parties thereto and shall for all purposes have effect according to its tenor.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act, the said agreement is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made, and the Board is hereby empowered, in consideration of the payment of the sum of two dollars, and in pursuance of the said agreement, to sell and transfer to the Council the land hereinafter described, free of reservations and encumbrances other than—

• (a) The easement over part of the said land created by Conveyance Registered Number 19370;

• (b) The right of the Board as aforesaid to use, repair, and maintain for harbour purposes the tramway now constructed on the said land, so long as the Board shall so desire;

• (c) The right of the Board as aforesaid to quarry for and take away stone from the said land, and to construct any additional sidings or lay any additional rails thereon; and

• (d) The right of the Board as aforesaid to deposit spoil thereon.

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

All that piece of land situated in Block X of the Arowhenua Survey District, containing fourteen acres one rood eleven perches and five-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Lots 1, 4, and 5 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as Number 6369, and Lots 1 and 4 on a plan deposited as aforesaid of parts of Rural Sections 6582 and 7024, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 462, folio 233, Canterbury Registry, subject to the easement over parts of the above-described land created by Conveyance Registered Number 19370.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act, the Council may sell to the Board, at such price and upon such terms and conditions as to payment and otherwise in all respects as may be agreed upon between the Council and the Board, all or any of the following pieces of land:—

• (a) All that piece of land containing one rood seventeen perches and eighty-four hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Lot 3 on the deposited plan:

• (b) All that piece of land containing thirty-four perches and fifty-two hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Lot 6 on the deposited plan:

• (c) All that piece of land containing one rood thirty-eight perches and six-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Lot 7 on the deposited plan.

(2) The proceeds of the sale of the lands referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of the last preceding subsection may be paid into the general account of the Council, and may be applied to such purpose or purposes as the Council thinks fit. The proceeds of the sale of the land referred to in paragraph (c) of the last preceding subsection shall be applied in or towards the purchase of other lands to be held for recreation purposes.

(3) The land described in paragraph (a) of subsection one of this section shall, until the sale thereof to the Board is completed, be deemed to be the property of the Corporation, and at any time before the Board fulfils, observes, and performs all such terms of the contract of sale as are to be fulfilled, observed, or performed by the Board, the Board shall, if so requested by the Council, and at the Council's expense, execute and deliver to the Council a valid and registrable memorandum of transfer of that land to the Corporation.

(4) The Council shall transfer to the Board such part of Lot 5 on the deposited plan as lies to the north-east of the south-western boundary of Lot 2 on Deposited Plan Number 890.

(5) As from the passing of this Act the following pieces of land shall be deemed to be public street and to form part of the public street in the Borough of Petone known as Udy Street:—

• (a) All that piece of land containing thirty-two perches and eighteen-hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Lot 4 on the deposited plan:

• (b) All that piece of land containing two acres one rood thirty-five perches and thirty-five hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Lot 8 on the deposited plan.

(6) As from the passing of this Act, that piece of land containing two perches and ninety-one hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Lot 1 on the deposited plan, shall be deemed to be public street and to form part of the public street in the Borough of Petone known as Bouverie Street.

(7) For the purposes of the transactions referred to in this section, and so long as Lots 2 and 3 on the deposited plan remain vested in the Board, the existing division of the land fronting the eastern side of Bouverie Street shall be deemed not to be a subdivision for the purposes of sale within the meaning of section 128 of the Public Works Act 1928.

(8) The Board may transfer to the Corporation that piece of land containing one-fifth of a perch, more or less, being Lot 9 on the deposited plan.

(9) Upon the transfer to the Corporation of the said Lot 9, pursuant to the last preceding subsection, the said Lot 9 shall be held by the Corporation for recreation purposes:

Provided that inasmuch as the said Lot 9 abuts upon certain land now used by the Corporation for recreation purposes, the said Lot 9 shall be capable of being dealt with and disposed of in all respects as if it had been acquired by the Corporation at the same time and in the same manner and together with the land upon which it abuts as aforesaid.

(10) Neither the Council nor the Board, nor any member or officer of the Council or of the Board, shall be liable to any action or penalty, whether at the suit of the Crown or any subject, in respect of any act or omission heretofore done or made, and which would have been lawful when done or made if this Act had then been in force.

(1) The surviving governors of the Institute are hereby authorized and directed—

• (a) To transfer as soon as practicable to the trustees for the time being of the Centennial Memorial Hall at Waitangi, without the payment of any moneys or the giving of any other consideration by those trustees, all books and other literary matter belonging to the Institute;

• (b) To sell the Institute building by public auction or public tender; and

• (c) To transfer the Institute land, freed and discharged from all trusts then affecting that land, to the trustees for the time being of the Hall of Memories at Te One, without the payment of any moneys or the giving of any other consideration by those trustees.

(2) The net proceeds of the sale of the Institute building shall be applied by the governors in the following manner, that is to say:—

• (a) Firstly, in paying and discharging all debts and liabilities of the Institute at the date of the completion of the transactions referred to in the last preceding subsection:

• (b) Secondly, in payment of two-thirds of the residue thereof to the trustees for the time being of the Hall of Memories at Te One, and of the remaining one-third of that residue to the trustees for the time being of the Centennial Memorial Hall at Waitangi.

(3) Upon compliance by the surviving governors of the Institute with all the requirements of this section the Institute shall be deemed to be dissolved.