Whereas the Raglan County Council (in this section referred to as the Council), in anticipation of the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board being given to the raising of the Housing Loan, 1946, of the sum of fifty thousand dollars (in this section referred to as the loan), expended out of its County Fund Account moneys amounting in the aggregate to the sum of three thousand and eighty-six dollars in and towards the erection of two houses for its employees: And whereas the loan has since been raised pursuant to authority granted in that behalf, and the Council is desirous of recouping its County Fund Account out of the proceeds of the loan: And whereas it is desirable to authorize the Council to recoup its County Fund Account in respect of the expenditure incurred in anticipation of sanction being given to the raising of the loan: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to refund to its County Fund Account, out of the proceeds of the loan, the said sum of three thousand and eighty-six dollars.

Whereas the Palmerston North City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has obtained the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board to the raising of three loans known as the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1945, the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1946, No 2, and the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1946, No 3, respectively: And whereas, in anticipation of the necessary authority being granted to the raising of the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1945, the Council expended from its District Fund Account the sum of one thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents, and, in anticipation of the necessary authority being granted to the raising of the other two loans hereinbefore mentioned, the Council expended from that Account the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents: And whereas repayment of the said sums of one thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents, and eleven thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents, has since been made by the Council into its District Fund Account from the proceeds of the said loans: And whereas it is desirable to validate the repayment so made into that Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payment by the Council into its District Fund Account from its Transit Housing Loan Accounts of the sum of one thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-six and two-thirds cents and the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-four and a sixth cents by way of refund of moneys previously expended for transit housing purposes is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Palmerston North City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) applied to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a loan of the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of purchasing and installing a water-gas plant, pan ash-separator, and jib crane: And whereas the Local Government Loans Board sanctioned the application to the extent of the sum of ten thousand dollars and consent to the raising of that sum was given by Order in Council dated the fifteenth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven: And whereas part of the said equipment arrived in New Zealand before the date of the said Order in Council and it was necessary for the Council to expend the sum of five thousand dollars from its District Fund Account in the purchase and installation of that part of the equipment: And whereas, in the circumstances, the Local Government Loans Board has no authority to sanction the raising of the balance of the proposed loan, amounting to the sum of five thousand dollars, and it is desirable to authorize the Council to raise a loan of that amount for the purpose of recouping its District Fund Account: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9-13 of that Act, an amount not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars for the purpose of refunding to its District Fund Account all moneys advanced thereout towards the purchase and installation of gas plant and equipment.

The expenditure by the Whangarei Borough Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, of the sum of two thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety-eight and a third cents, for the purpose of meeting expenses incurred in connection with the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Borough of Whangarei, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

The payment by the Tauranga Borough Council, out of its District Fund Account, of the sum of one hundred dollars as a grant to Alice Heron Maxwell, of Mission Street, in the Borough of Tauranga, in recognition of her services in permitting and assisting the public to visit her property known as The Elms, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Te Awamutu Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) applied to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a loan of the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars for transit housing purposes: And whereas the Local Government Loans Board sanctioned the application on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-six: And whereas, before that date, the Council expended from its District Fund Account, for transit housing purposes the sum of one thousand four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty-one and two-thirds cents, which sum has since, without legal authority, been repaid into that Account from the proceeds of the loan: And whereas it is desirable to validate the repayment so made: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The payment by the Council into its District Fund Account of the sum of one thousand four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty-one and a half cents from its Transit Housing Loan Account by way of a refund of moneys previously expended for transit housing purposes is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

The Christchurch City Council is hereby authorized to make a payment of the sum of two thousand dollars to the Young Women's Christian Association as a donation to the building fund established by the Association in Christchurch.

Whereas the Masterton Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) established a Transit Housing Centre in the Borough of Masterton, and, in anticipation of obtaining sanction to the raising of a loan for that purpose, expended from its District Fund Account a total sum of eight thousand dollars: And whereas the Local Government Loans Board has now no authority to sanction an application by the Council for a loan for the purpose of enabling the Council to refund to its District Fund Account the moneys expended in establishing the Transit Housing Centre, and it is desirable that authority be given for that purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow, by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9–13 of that Act, an amount not exceeding the sum of eight thousand dollars, for the purpose of refunding to the Council's District Fund Account all moneys heretofore applied by the Council in the establishment of the aforesaid Transit Housing Centre.

The expenditure by the Rotorua Borough Council of the sum of six hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-six and two-thirds cents in connection with the reception and entertainment of delegates and other persons attending the annual meeting of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, Incorporated, held at Rotorua during the month of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas the Hastings Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has received the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board to the raising of a loan of the sum of twenty thousand dollars (known as Community Centre (Preliminary) Loan, 1946) for the purpose of purchasing land to provide a site for a Community Centre: And whereas, in anticipation of the sanction being given, the Council expended from its District Fund Account the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars in purchasing portion of the land required: And whereas part of the loan has since been raised pursuant to authority granted in that behalf, and the Council is desirous of recouping its District Fund Account out of the proceeds of the loan: And whereas it is desirable to authorize the Council to recoup its District Fund Account in respect of the expenditure incurred: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to refund to its District Fund Account, out of the proceeds of the loan, the said sum of two thousand two hundred dollars.

(1) The Council may, for the purpose of meeting the cost of making the said extensions and improvements to the Levin Municipal Abattoir, borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of five thousand four 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 9-13 of that Act.

(2) The Council may, out of the proceeds of the loan, refund to its District Fund Account, for the credit of its Abattoir Revenue Account, the sum of five thousand and forty-four dollars and forty-five cents, advanced therefrom to provide for the cost of making extensions and improvements to the Levin Municipal Abattoir.

The Hamilton City Council is hereby authorized and empowered to erect a clock-tower and clock on the junction of Victoria Street and Garden Place in the City of Hamilton, and for those purposes to expend such amount as may be required.

Whereas the Gisborne Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is desirous of obtaining authority to remit rates amounting to the sum of ninety-nine dollars and seventy-two cents, being the rates levied by the Council for the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, 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, 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 the remission: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized to remit the sum of ninety-nine dollars and seventy-one and two-thirds cents, being the total amount of the said rates, and to absolve the said Association and the said lands from liability in respect thereof.

Whereas the Lower Hutt City Council (in this section referred to as the City Council) and the Eastbourne Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Borough Council) entered into a deed of agreement dated the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, of which a certified copy is deposited in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington under number IA 105/444, whereby the City Council agreed to supply and the Borough 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 deed of agreement: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, or in any other Act, the City Council and the Borough Council shall be deemed to have been at all times authorized and empowered to enter into the said deed of agreement, which shall be binding on the parties thereto and shall for all purposes be effective according to its tenor.

The Waihi Borough Council is hereby authorized and empowered to pay the sum of two hundred dollars as a compassionate allowance to the widow of the late William Miller Wallnutt, formerly Mayor of the Borough of Waihi.

(1) The Council is hereby empowered to pay to the Association the sum of five hundred dollars.

(2) On the payment by the Council to the Association of the said sum of five hundred dollars the licence granted by section fifty-three of the Local Legislation Act 1928, shall be cancelled.

(3) Section fifty-three of the Local Legislation Act 1928, is hereby repealed.

Section twelve of the Opunake Harbour Act 1938, is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the word “May”, and substituting the word “December”.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act, the special valuation roll prepared pursuant to section four of the Thames Borough Commissioner Amendment Act 1934, shall continue to be operative until the thirty-first day of March next following the date of the first revision of the ordinary valuation roll for the Borough of Thames which is made after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.

(2) The Thames Borough Commissioner Amendment Act 1934, is hereby amended as follows:—

• (a) By inserting in subsection one of section five, after the word “Commissioner”, the words “or the Council”:

• (b) By inserting in subsection three of section five, after the word “Commissioner”, the words “the Council,”:

• (c) By omitting from subsection two of section eight thereof the words “Advisory Committee”, and substituting the word “Council”:

• (d) By inserting in subsection four of section eight, after the word “Commissioner” the words “or the Council”; and by omitting from the same subsection the words “by him”, and substituting the words “in that behalf”:

• (e) By inserting in subsection one of section ten, after the word “Commissioner”, the words “or the Council”.

(3) Section fifteen of the Thames Borough Commissioner Amendment Act 1940, is hereby repealed.

Whereas the Whangarei Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is constituted as the Whangarei Milk Authority under the Milk Act 1944: And whereas for the purpose of paying the purchase price of established milk-vending businesses and the cost of providing necessary plant, the Council proposes to raise a special loan in exercise of the powers granted by section sixty of the Milk Act 1944, to be known as the Whangarei Borough Milk Loan 1947: And whereas in anticipation of the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board being given to the raising of the said loan the Council has expended out of its General Account the sum of five thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and eleven and two-thirds cents in the purchase of a milk-vending business, the establishment of a milk token bank, and for certain preliminary expenses: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized to refund to its General Account from a special loan to be known as the Whangarei Borough Milk Loan 1947, all moneys, not exceeding the sum of five thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and eleven and two-thirds cents already expended by it for the purpose of the purchase of the milk-vending business of Hailes and Harris, of Whangarei, milk-vendors, the establishment of a milk token bank, and certain preliminary expenses.

Whereas the Kamo Town Board (in this section referred to as the Board) was by Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-six, made pursuant to section eleven of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, and published in the Gazette of the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-six, authorized to raise a loan of twenty-four thousand dollars to be known as the Waterworks Loan, 1945 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to certain terms and conditions: And whereas one of the terms and conditions was that the Board should, before raising the loan, make provision for repayment by establishing a sinking fund: And whereas the Board, pursuant to the said Order in Council, has raised the loan but has not made specific provision for a sinking fund as required by the said Order: And whereas the Board has issued a series of forty debentures numbered one to forty inclusive, each for the sum of eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-seven and a half cents, being the half-yearly sum required to provide for the repayment of the loan with interest thereon at the rate of three dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents per centum per annum: And whereas it is desirable to validate the action of the Board in raising the loan and securing the repayment thereof by the issue of the said debentures: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the Board in raising the loan is hereby validated and the said moneys shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed and the securities given in respect thereof to have been lawfully issued and the said debentures shall have full force and effect according to their tenor.

The expenditure by the Auckland Harbour Board during the financial year ended on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, of the sum of four hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-five cents, in connection with the holding of the fourteenth Harbours Conference in Auckland, and the entertainment of delegates thereto, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas all those lands comprising Allotments 22, 23, 24, 25, 74, and 75, Township of Sunshine, on the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 2087, and being all the land comprised in certificates of title, Volume 171, folio 215, and Volume 162, folio 159, Otago Registry, are vested in the Otago Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board): And whereas the said lands were acquired by the Board for the purposes of harbour-works, but part of the said lands are no longer required for those purposes and the Board is desirous of selling the same: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board is hereby authorized to sell such part or parts of the said lands as the Board shall from time to time determine for such consideration as may be agreed upon and upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board shall decide, and the moneys received by the Board as the purchase-price of any lands sold as aforesaid shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of section twenty of the Finance Act 1934.

The Auckland Harbour Board is hereby authorized to expend out of its Harbour Fund the sum of two hundred and twenty dollars for the purpose of meeting expenditure incurred in conducting an exhibition of the Port of London Authority's wartime activities.

The Auckland Harbour Board is hereby authorized to expend from its Harbour Fund the sum of two hundred dollars as a donation to the funds of the Public Relations Office of Auckland, Incorporated, to be used for the encouragement of tourist traffic to Auckland and the furtherance of the interests of Auckland and the Auckland Province generally.

Whereas by Order in Council made on the ninth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-three, consent was given to the raising by the Waitomo Electric-power Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of twenty thousand dollars, to be known as the Reticulation Loan 1943 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment set forth in the said Order in Council, one of those determinations being that no moneys should be borrowed 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 ninth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-five: And whereas on the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the Board borrowed, as part of the loan, the sum of ten thousand dollars: And whereas it is desirable that the borrowing of the said sum of ten thousand dollars should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

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

(1) The general rates levied by the Board for the years ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be deemed to have been lawfully made.

(2) The provisions of section fifty of the Local Legislation Act 1936, as extended by section forty-two of the Local Legislation Act 1937, section forty-one of the Local Legislation Act 1939, and section twenty-eight of the Local Legislation Act 1942, shall be deemed to be further extended to authorize and to have authorized the Board to make and levy the general rates as set out in subsection 2 of section fifty of the Local Legislation Act 1936, for the years ending respectively on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty.

The expenditure by the Auckland Hospital Board during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, in connection with the official opening of Middlemore Hospital, and amounting to the sum of four hundred dollars, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas by Order in Council made on the twenty-sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-four (in this section referred to as the said Order in Council), consent was given to the raising by the Waiapu Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of forty thousand dollars, to be known as Te Puia Hospital Building Loan, 1944 (in this section referred to as the loan): And whereas clause six of the said Order in Council provided that no moneys should be borrowed thereunder after the expiration of two years from the date of the said Order in Council: And whereas the period of two years expired on the twenty-sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six: And whereas on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the Board borrowed from the Bank of New Zealand, as part of the loan, the sum of ten thousand dollars: And whereas it is desirable that the borrowing of the said sum of ten thousand dollars should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

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

The payment by the Opotiki Hospital Board during the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, of the sum of two hundred and seventy-one dollars and sixteen and two-thirds cents, for the purpose of replacement of hospital staff personal effects lost by fire on the fourth day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-six, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas that piece of land containing one rood nine perches and being Lot 27 of Block II of the Te Puru Township, and being part of the land included in certificate of title, Volume 458, folio 159, Auckland Registry (in this section referred to as the said land), is vested in the Waikato Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) in fee-simple to be held in trust as a site for a public hospital: And whereas the said land is not at present required as a site for a public hospital: And whereas, by memorandum of lease dated the eighth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, the Board leased the said land to Mary Reidy, of Kawhia, nurse, for the term of her natural life at a nominal rental and subject to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions set forth in the said memorandum of lease: And whereas the Board has no power to execute the said lease, but it is desirable that such power should be granted and that the said memorandum of lease should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The memorandum of lease dated the eighth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, made between the Board and the said Mary Reidy is hereby validated, and the District Land Registrar at Auckland is hereby authorized and directed to register the said memorandum of lease against the title to the said land.

(1) The Wellington Hospital Board is hereby authorized to expend moneys, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars, out of its general revenues for the purposes of providing funds for the celebration and commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of a public hospital in the City of Wellington and the publication of a history of the Wellington Hospital and associated institutions, and to make grants to any person or persons for any such purposes.

(2) All payments and grants of money heretofore made by the Wellington Hospital Board for any of the purposes specified in subsection one of this section are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made:

Provided that the total expenditure under the authority of this section shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act, the Board is hereby empowered to transfer, without consideration, the land described in subsection two of this section to the Corporation to be held by the Council for the purposes of providing pleasure grounds, gardens, or other means of recreation and enjoyment.

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

All that piece of land situate in the City of Wanganui, containing two roods thirty-one perches and eight-tenths of a perch, more or less, being part of Section 355 of the Left Bank of the Wanganui River, and being also part of Lot 3 on Deposited Plan 12357, bounded towards the east by Anzac Parade, towards the south by Lot 5, towards the west by other part of the said Lot 3, being accretion to the said Section 355, and towards the north by Lot 2, all on Deposited Plan 12357 aforesaid, being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 492, folio 248, Wellington Registry, the said piece of land being shown outlined in colour red on a plan marked M D 8633, deposited in the Office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

(1) The County Council may pay to the City Council all charges that may from time to time be made by the City Council in respect of each property to which this section relates that is connected with the City Council's sewerage and water-supply systems.

(2) The charges, when paid by the County Council, shall be recoverable by the County Council from the owners of the properties concerned as if the charges were rates in respect of the several properties concerned.

(3) Amounts paid by the County Council and recovered from the owners of the properties shall be respectively debited and credited by the County Council to the Wainui-o-mata Riding Account.

(4) The properties to which this section relates are described as follows:—

All those properties situated in Seddon Street and Crawford Street in the Wainui-o-mata Riding of the Hutt County, comprising Lots 1 to 12 inclusive on a plan deposited in the Land Registration Office at Wellington as Number 13153, and Lots 1 to 8 inclusive on a plan deposited in the said office as Number 12831.

(5) This section shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and shall then be deemed to be repealed.

(1) The vesting of the land described in subsection three of this section in the Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington as a public reserve, but otherwise freed and discharged from the trusts, reservations, and restrictions heretofore affecting the same.

(2) The District Land Registrar of the Land Registration District of Wellington is hereby authorized and directed to make such entries in the register books and 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 piece of land in the City of Wellington, containing by admeasurement two roods three perches, more or less, being part of Sections 606, 607, and 608, of the Town of Wellington, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 464, folio 104, Wellington Registry, as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, Number SO 19821, and thereon coloured yellow.

(1) The lands of the Institute, being the lands particularly described in subsection eight of this section, 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 as public reserves for the purposes of a public library in the Borough of Oamaru.

(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 discharge 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) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection one of this section, the Corporation may sell the whole or any portion of the lands thirdly described in subsection eight of this section by public auction or by public tender.

(6) The net amount derived from any sale of the lands thirdly described in subsection eight of this section shall be used and applied by the Corporation for alterations and additions to the buildings erected on the lands firstly and secondly described in the said subsection eight.

(7) The Oamaru Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute Act 1905, and section one hundred and fifty-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, are hereby repealed.

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

Firstly, all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement one rood, more or less, situate in the Town of Oamaru, being Section numbered 6, Block 95, and marked “Mechanics' Institute Reserve” on the map of the said town deposited in the Chief Surveyor's Office at Dunedin, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 65, folio 84, Otago Registry.

Secondly, all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement one rood, more or less, situate in the Town of Oamaru, being part of Block 95 of the said town, commencing at the north-east corner of Section 6 of the said Block and bearing from thence in a north-easterly direction along Thames Street for a distance of 100 links; thence at right angles in a north-westerly direction for a distance of 250 links; thence at right angles in a south-westerly direction for a distance of 100 links; thence in a south-easterly direction at right angles for a distance of 250 links, to the starting-point; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 89, Otago Registry.

Thirdly, all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing one hundred and two acres one rood thirty and eight-tenths perches, more or less, situate in the Oamaru Survey District, being Allotments numbered respectively 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, and 60 on the plan of the Ardgowan Estate (Subdivision Number 1), deposited in the Land Registry Office in Dunedin, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 64, folio 29, Otago Registry, the land in this certificate of title being subject to memorandum of lease registered Number 7248.

(1) The Corporation and the Board shall be deemed to have been duly empowered to enter into the said agreements, which shall have effect and be binding according to the terms thereof.

(2) The Corporation is hereby empowered to accept the said securities and the Board is hereby empowered to give security to the Corporation for the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars with interest thereon at the rate of three dollars and twenty-five cents per centum per annum payable half-yearly and for that purpose to give a charge over the revenues derived from the Board's undertaking and operations within the Borough of Te Puke.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions of section seventy-six of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925.

(4) The Board is hereby authorized to raise under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1956, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9–13 of that Act, a special loan of twenty-eight thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying out its obligations under the said agreements.

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, the Borough of Te Puke shall be deemed to be included in and form part of the Board's district.

Whereas by Order in Council dated the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and published in the Gazette on the thirteenth day of the same month the Governor-General constituted the Clarence Rabbit District under Part 2 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928: And whereas the Clarence Rabbit Board has ceased to function and has discharged its liabilities and disposed of all its assets and it is deemed desirable to abolish the said District and dissolve the said Board: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Clarence Rabbit District is hereby abolished and the Board thereof is hereby dissolved.

Whereas a fund has been set up in the Provincial District of Canterbury for the purpose of commemorating the valorous deeds of Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham, Victoria Cross and Bar, by providing, or assisting in the provision of, financial assistance for the higher education of sons of former New Zealand servicemen or servicewomen: And whereas the said fund is to be administered by a Board of Trustees incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908, under the name of the C H Upham Scholarship Trust Board: And whereas, for the purpose of assisting the said fund, the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council, constituted under Part 2 of the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations 1939, is desirous of making a grant of the sum of two thousand dollars to the said Board, but has no legal authority to make the grant: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council is hereby authorized and empowered to make a grant of the sum of two thousand dollars to the C H Upham Scholarship Trust Board.

Whereas the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit District was constituted by Order in Council made under the provisions of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, on the tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six: And whereas the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) has undertaken the destruction of rabbits within the said District: And whereas the bank overdraft which the Board is permitted to raise by virtue of section three of the Local Bodies Finance Act 1921-22, is inadequate to enable the Board to maintain the work of the destruction of rabbits pending the collection of its revenue from rates during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow by way of overdraft a sum not exceeding three-fourths of its estimated revenue for the current financial year, calculated upon a general rate of six and two-third cents per acre levied over the rateable property in the district of the Board.

Whereas the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit District was constituted by Order in Council made under the provisions of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, on the tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six: And whereas, pending the engagement of rabbiters by the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) for the purpose of carrying out the destruction of rabbits in the said District, certain ratepayers, by arrangement with the Board, engaged rabbiters on the understanding that any expenditure incurred in the employment of the rabbiters would be refunded by the Board: And whereas, in pursuance of the said arrangement, the Board is now desirous of refunding to the said rate-payers an amount not exceeding the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighty of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, the Board is hereby authorized to refund to the ratepayers concerned any sums expended by them towards the destruction of rabbits pursuant to the said arrangement, up to but not exceeding the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars.

(1) The Board is hereby authorized to borrow, for the purpose of meeting in part the cost of the erection of five dwellinghouses, an amount not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars by way of special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1956, by special resolution and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9–13 of that Act:

Provided that the Board shall adopt the procedure laid down in section eighty-eight of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, and shall comply with all the provisions of that section.

(2) The Board is hereby authorized to pay the proceeds of the loan into its General Account in part repayment of the moneys advanced thereout for the purpose of erecting the said dwellinghouses.

(1) The ratepayers' list and roll of electors made by the Board and in force before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, but subject to amendment pursuant to section forty-five of that Act, continue in force as the ratepayers' list and roll of electors for the Wairarapa East Rabbit District until a new list and roll is made and comes into force in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and shall be deemed to be valid for all purposes as if the Board had, in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven, made a new rate-payers' list and roll of electors by taking the steps prescribed by sections thirty-nine to forty-four of the said Act.

(2) The general election held by the Board in the month of November in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven is hereby declared to be valid, and the members declared to be elected at the said election shall be deemed to have been duly elected.

(3) The rates made and levied, or which the Board purported to make and levy, for the said period ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid from the first day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the date when the Board purported to make and levy the same.

(4) The rates made and levied, or which the Board purported to make and levy, for the said period ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid from the eighteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, the date when the Board purported to make and levy the same.

(1) The Board is hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of eight hundred dollars by way of special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1926, by special resolution and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9-13 of that Act.

(2) The Board may pay the proceeds of the loan into its General Account in part repayment of the moneys advanced thereout for the purposes aforesaid.