The payment made by the Wallace County Council out of its County Fund Account on the twenty-seventh day of October, nineteen hundred and forty-three, of the sum of two hundred dollars as a compassionate allowance to Isabella Baker, widow of James George Charles Baker, an officer of the Council who died on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-three, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Nothing in the Local Authorities (Members' Interests) Act 1968, shall, while a Matakaoa County Commissioner is in office pursuant to section ten of the Local Legislation Act 1932-33, apply with respect to any member of the Council of the County of Matakaoa, nor shall anything in the Local Authorities (Members' Interests) Act 1968, be deemed at any time heretofore to have applied with respect to any member of that Council.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said Act or in any other Act, all moneys heretofore borrowed and owed by the Council, and all other liabilities heretofore incurred by the Council, in excess of the limits prescribed by the said Act shall for all purposes be deemed to have been at all times lawfully borrowed and owed and incurred by the Council.

(2) For the purpose of partially repaying the said excess liabilities, the Council shall borrow from its bankers by way of overdraft, in the manner prescribed by section three of the said Act, the sum of forty thousand dollars.

(3) The Council shall repay the said sum of forty thousand dollars 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 forty-four:

Provided that the Council may in any year repay out of the said General Account an amount greater than a one-tenth part.

(4) The said sum of forty thousand dollars so borrowed shall be carried to a separate account at the bank and all payments made in reduction of the said sum shall be credited to that account.

(5) The said sum of forty thousand dollars 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 Act.

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-four, amounting to the sum of eighty-five dollars and fifty cents, and also rates for the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-five, amounting to the sum of eighty-seven dollars and sixty-eight and a third cents, being in each case 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 No 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 one hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighteen and a third cents, being the total amount of such rates and arrears of rates as aforesaid, and to absolve the said association and the said lands from liability in respect thereof.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Masterton Borough Council is hereby empowered to expend the whole or such part as it thinks fit of the proceeds of the sale of the Mangaone Endowment held under Crown Grant No 5850, amounting to the sum of eight thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars, in the purchase of land for street purposes and for widening existing streets of the Borough of Masterton.

Whereas Miss Alice Heron Maxwell, of Mission Street, in the Borough of Tauranga, is the owner of the property situated in the Borough of Tauranga and known as “The Elms”: And whereas that property is of great historical interest: And whereas for many years past the said Miss Alice Heron Maxwell has permitted and assisted the public to visit and inspect the property: And whereas in recognition of the generosity and services of the said Miss Alice Heron Maxwell in so doing the Tauranga Borough Council has made to her a grant of two hundred dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payment by the Tauranga Borough Council out of its District Fund Account of the sum of two hundred dollars to the said Miss Alice Heron Maxwell is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Council may, for the purpose of meeting the cost of carrying out and completing the said works, borrow a further amount not exceeding the sum of six thousand six hundred dollars, by way of special loan under the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act.

(2) The Council may out of the proceeds of such loan refund to its District Fund Account all moneys advanced thereout, whether before or after the passing of this Act, on account of the cost of carrying out and completing the said works.

(1) There may be paid to the Waitara Borough Council out of the Housing Account the sum of seven hundred and eighty dollars in respect of the land described in subsection three of this section, being land formerly vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Waitara and since acquired on behalf of the Crown for housing purposes.

(2) The said sum of seven hundred and eighty dollars shall be applied by the Council in and towards the purchase or acquisition, and the expenses of and incidental to the purchase or acquisition, of other lands within the Borough of Waitara or elsewhere to be held in trust for recreation purposes.

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

All that parcel of land containing three acres one rood thirty-four perches and five-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Sections 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, and parts of Sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9, of Block 91, Town of Waitara West (the said Section 15 being formerly a portion of Strange Street duly closed), and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 151, folio 193, Taranaki Registry.

The Wellington City Council may, for the purpose of constructing and providing works and facilities necessary in the opinion of the Council for the efficient working and control of the Wellington City Abattoir, and particularly for the purpose of constructing and providing at the Abattoir extensions of slaughtering and hanging facilities, plant for the refrigeration of small goods, a motor-truck, a garage, and a shed, and for the purpose of refunding moneys expended since the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-two, or hereafter expended by the Council for the aforesaid purposes, borrow an amount or amounts not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of twenty-six thousand dollars by way of special loan or special loans under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act.

The Auckland City Council is hereby empowered to transfer to the Auckland University College Council, to be held by that Council for the purposes of the College, all that piece of land containing eight acres and two roods, more or less, being Lot 1 on a plan lodged in the Land Registry Office at Auckland under Number 31373, and being portion of Allotments 17 and 18 of Section 9 of the Suburbs of Auckland.

(1) The Council is hereby empowered to erect a building on the said land for the purpose of the storage of hides and skins.

(2) The Council may from time to time—

• (a) Let the said land and building to any butcher or butchers for the time being carrying on business in the Borough of Paeroa, or to any association of any such butchers as aforesaid, at such rent, for such term, and upon such conditions as the Council thinks fit; or

• (b) Grant to any such butcher or butchers as aforesaid, or to any such association as aforesaid, the right to use any part or parts of the said building or of the said land for the purpose of storing hides and skins, upon such conditions as the Council thinks fit.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said Act or in any other Act, all moneys heretofore borrowed and owed by the Council, and all other liabilities heretofore incurred by the Council, in excess of the limits prescribed by the said Act shall for all purposes be deemed to have been at all times lawfully borrowed and owed and incurred by the Council.

(2) For the purpose of partially repaying the said excess liabilities, the Council shall borrow from its bankers by way of overdraft, in the manner prescribed by section three of the said Act, the sum of eight hundred dollars.

(3) The Council shall repay the said sum of eight hundred dollars by five equal payments out of the moneys credited to its General Account, one such payment to be made in each year during the period of five years that commenced on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-four:

Provided that the Council may in any year repay out of the said General Account an amount greater than a one-fifth part.

(4) The said sum of eight hundred dollars 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 Act.

(1) For the purpose of meeting a proportion of the cost of restoring roads in the Borough of Whangarei that have been damaged by military traffic, the Whangarei Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars, by way of special loan under the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act.

(2) Any moneys heretofore expended by the Council from its General Account for the purposes aforesaid are hereby declared to have been lawfully expended and may be repaid to that account out of the moneys to be borrowed under the authority of this section.

Whereas by section twenty of the Local Legislation Act 1935, the Eltham Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) was authorized to accept on behalf of the Corporation of the Borough of Eltham (in this section referred to as the Corporation) a transfer of the land therein described, being that piece of land situated in the Borough of Eltham, containing twenty perches and forty-eight hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Lots 48, 49, and 50, and part Lot 47, on Deposited Plan No 2690, and being part of section 59 on the Public Map of the Eltham Village Settlement, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 138, folio 184, Taranaki Registry, subject to the trusts set out in the said section twenty and in a certain deed of trust executed by the Council pursuant to that section: And whereas pursuant to the authority contained in the said section twenty the said land was transferred to the Corporation subject to the said trusts: And whereas in exercise of the powers conferred upon it under the said trusts, and with the consent of the Eltham subbranch of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, Incorporated, the Council sold part of the said land, namely an area containing one perch and eighty-five hundredths of a perch, more or less, being part Lot 47 on Deposited Plan No 2690, and being part of section 59 on the Public Map of Eltham Village Settlement, and being the whole of the land now comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 147, folio 270, Taranaki Registry, to the Taranaki Electric-power Board for the sum of forty dollars: And whereas pursuant to the said consent and the said trusts the whole of the said sum of forty dollars was retained by the Council: And whereas pursuant to the said trusts the Council is required to hold the said sum of forty dollars in trust for the purpose of purchasing land to be held and used upon and subject to the said trusts: And whereas it has been agreed that the Council shall not be required to use the said sum of forty dollars for such purpose as aforesaid and that the Council shall dispose of that sum in the manner hereinafter set out: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything in section twenty of the Local Legislation Act 1935, it shall be lawful for the Council to make a donation of the said sum of forty dollars, either in one sum or in several sums, to the Eltham sub-branch of the said society, to be spent by that sub-branch in and towards the maintenance or improvement of that part of the said land now remaining unsold, being the balance of the land now comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 138, folio 184, Taranaki Registry, and in and towards the repair, maintenance, and improvement of the buildings and other improvements from time to time thereon.

(1) For the purpose of meeting a proportion of the cost of extending the water-supply system of the Borough of Lyttelton, the Lyttelton Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of six thousand six hundred dollars by way of special loan under the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act.

(2) The Council may out of the proceeds of such special loan refund to its General Account all moneys advanced thereout, whether before or after the passing of this Act, for the aforesaid purpose.

(1) The Pukekohe Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars, by way of special loan under the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, for the purpose of acquiring land and meeting the cost of construction of Kitchener Road Reservoir, and for all other works necessary for or incidental to the supply of water to the Internal Marketing Department's dehydration and vegetable processing factory.

(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 carrying out the works mentioned in subsection one of this section.

The payments by the Masterton Borough Council to the widow of the late James Young Douglas of the sum of two hundred and nine dollars and six and two-third cents and to the widow of the late William Colman Holes of the sum of eighty-seven dollars and twenty and five-sixths cents, by way of compassionate allowances, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

The Kaikohe Town Board is hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, by way of special loan under the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, for the purpose of meeting a proportion of the cost of extending the water-supply system of the Kaikohe Town District.

The payments made by the Auckland Harbour Board during the financial year ended on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-four, of a sum of two hundred dollars to the Council of the Auckland Sailors' Home for the purpose of effecting improvements to the home, and of a sum of one hundred dollars as a compassionate allowance to Violet Alberta Wolfe, widow of a former employee of the Board, and of a sum of one hundred dollars as a compassionate allowance to Emma Caroline East, widow of a former employee of the Board, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

The Auckland Harbour Board is hereby empowered to expend out of its Harbour Fund the sum of two hundred dollars by way of donation to the Auckland Young Women's Christian Association (Incorporated), and the sum of two hundred dollars by way of donation to the Auckland Young Men's Christian Association (Incorporated).

Whereas on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-three, the Wairoa Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board) had in its Special Rates Trust Account an accumulated surplus amounting to the sum of nineteen thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-five cents, after making all payments due on or before that date in respect of loans raised and owing by the Board: And whereas at that date the General Cash Account of the Board was in debit to the extent of eight thousand four hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-seven and a half cents, and the undertakings of the Board are such that the said debit cannot be made good out of the future revenues of the Board: And whereas since the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, the Board has paid out of its General Cash Account the following amounts: For office premises, the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars; for wharf “B” shed, the sum of three thousand and forty-six dollars; for river-protection works, the sum of three thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars; for earthquake repairs, the sum of five hundred and sixteen dollars; the said payments amounting in the aggregate to the sum of ten thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars: And whereas it is desired that the said sum of ten thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars be transferred from the Special Rates Trust Account to the General Cash Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board may transfer from its Special Rates Trust Account to its General Cash Account the sum of ten thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars by way of refund to the General Cash Account of the moneys paid thereout for the special purposes hereinbefore mentioned.

Whereas by Order in Council made under the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, and dated the twenty-second day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-one, consent was given to the raising by the Waitaki Electric-power Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of forty thousand dollars, to be known as the Extension Loan, 1941 (in this section referred to as the said loan), subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment set forth in the Order in Council, one of those determinations being that no moneys should be borrowed under such consent as aforesaid after the expiration of two years from the date of the Order in Council: And whereas the said period of two years expired on the twenty-second day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-three: And whereas on the twenty-eighth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-four, the Board borrowed, as part of the said loan, the sum of two thousand dollars: And whereas it is desirable that the raising of that part of the said loan and the borrowing of the said sum of two thousand dollars should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the Board in borrowing as aforesaid the sum of two thousand dollars as part of the said loan after the expiration of the period specified in the said Order in Council is hereby validated, and that sum shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed.

Whereas by a poll of ratepayers taken on the ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board (in this section referred to as the Board) was authorized to raise a loan of thirty thousand dollars, to be known as the Permanent Outlet of Lake Ellesmere Loan, 1938, for the purpose of providing the Board's contribution to works to be undertaken by the Government under section thirty of the Finance Act (No 2) 1936, for the drainage and control of Lake Ellesmere in the Canterbury Land District, and for the protection of lands adjacent to the lake, including the construction of a permanent outlet from the lake to the sea: And whereas owing to difficulties arising out of the present war the construction of the said permanent outlet has not been proceeded with: And whereas under section sixteen of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, the authority to raise the said loan lapsed on the ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-four: And whereas it is desirable that the authority to raise the said loan be revived and extended for a further period of five years: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The authority to raise the said loan granted to the Board by the ratepayers at the poll held on the ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, is hereby revived and extended for a term of five years from the ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-four.

(1) The Board may, for the purpose of meeting the cost of completing the said works, by special order, raise a special loan not exceeding the sum of four thousand dollars.

(2) The Board may out of the proceeds of such loan refund to its General Account all moneys heretofore advanced thereout on account of the cost of the said works.

The expenditure by the Waipawa Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board), out of loan-moneys raised by the Board with the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board for the erection of additions to the Board's hospital and the provision of equipment therefor, of sums of money amounting in the aggregate to one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three and a third cents for the construction of additions to the Board's Outpatients' Department and the purchase and installation of equipment therein is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made out of such loan-moneys as aforesaid, notwithstanding that the additions to, and equipment for, the Outpatients' Department were not included in the particulars submitted to the Local Government Loans Board upon the application for its sanction.

Whereas the Otago Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board), in anticipation of the consent of the Governor-General in Council being given to the raising of the Hospital (No 1) Loan, 1943, amounting to the sum of three hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars (in this section referred to as the loan), expended out of its Capital Account moneys amounting in the aggregate to the sum of thirty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy cents in and towards the erection of a physiotherapy block as an addition to the hospital in the City of Dunedin: And whereas the loan has since been raised pursuant to authority granted in that behalf and the Board is desirous of recouping its Capital Account out of the proceeds of the loan: And whereas it is expedient to authorize the Board to recoup its Capital Account in respect of the expenditure already made: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or rule of law, the Board is hereby authorized and empowered to refund to its Capital Account, out of the proceeds of the loan, the said sum of thirty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy cents.

The remission by the Wellington City Council of the sum of nine thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-nine and a sixth cents, being rates and penalties for the period that commenced on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-three, due and payable to the Council by the Wellington Harbour Board in respect of land owned by the Board and situated at Evans Bay in the City of Wellington, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Reserves Act 1977, or in any other Act, the Council and the Board are hereby and shall be deemed to have been at all times authorized and empowered to enter into the supplementary agreement and to grant, accept, and undertake the rights, privileges, and obligations therein mentioned.

(2) The Council and the Board are hereby authorized and empowered, and shall be deemed as from the date of the supplementary agreement to have been at all times authorized and empowered, to enter into and execute all such further leases, licenses, contracts, and agreements as they may deem necessary or expedient to give full effect to the objects and purport of the supplementary agreement and to confirm to the Board the benefit and uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the rights and privileges therein mentioned.

(1) The lands of the Institute hereinbefore described, being Sections 393, 394, 395, and 405, and part of Section 396, of the said Town of Port Chalmers, are hereby vested in the Corporation for an estate in fee-simple, subject to all existing leases and tenancies affecting the said lands, and shall be held by the Corporation as public reserves for the purposes of a public library in the Borough of Port Chalmers.

(2) All the personal property of whatsoever nature, including all choses in action and the benefit of all contracts and agreements and all rights and powers exercisable thereunder or pertaining thereto, belonging to the Institute are hereby vested in the Corporation free from all trusts and reservations heretofore affecting the same, and all debts and other liabilities lawfully incurred by the Institute and existing on the passing of this Act shall hereafter be debts and liabilities of the Corporation, and the said Council is hereby authorized and empowered to meet the said debts and liabilities out of its ordinary revenues.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Otago is hereby authorized and directed to make such entries in the Register and to issue, on the application of the Corporation, such certificates of title as are necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(4) The Institute is hereby dissolved.

(5) The Port Chalmers Mechanics' Institute Incorporation and Reserves Act 1877, and the Port Chalmers Mechanics' Institute Reserves Vesting Act 1898, are hereby repealed.

Whereas by Warrant dated the twenty-second day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and published in the Gazette of that date at page 3008, the Governor-General constituted the Maru Rabbit-proof Fencing District under Part 4 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1908: And whereas, by virtue of section twenty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, the said district enures for the purposes of Part 2 of the last-mentioned Act, and is deemed to have been constituted thereunder: And whereas all liabilities and assets of the Board of Trustees established for the said district have been duly discharged and disposed of: And whereas it is deemed desirable to abolish the said district: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Maru Rabbit-proof Fencing District is hereby abolished and the Board of Trustees thereof is hereby dissolved.

Whereas by Warrant dated the twenty-second day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and published in the Gazette of the sixth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, the Governor-General constituted the Mangare Rabbit-proof Fencing District under Part 4 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1908: And whereas, by virtue of section twenty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, the said district enures for the purposes of Part 2 of the last-mentioned Act, and is deemed to have been constituted thereunder: And whereas the Board of Trustees established for the said district has no assets, and its liabilities have been duly discharged or otherwise disposed of: And whereas it is deemed desirable to abolish the said district: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Mangare Rabbit-proof Fencing District is hereby abolished and the Board of Trustees thereof is hereby dissolved.