Whereas by an agreement dated the sixteenth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, made between McHarrie Brothers of Hamilton, bridge builders (in this section referred to as the contractors), of the one part, and the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Matamata (in this section referred to as the Council), of the other part, the contractors agreed with the Council to execute and complete the construction of a reinforced bridge over the Oraka Stream at Okoroire: And whereas, owing to increased costs incurred in respect of increased wages and cost of materials, and other circumstances beyond their control causing delay in completion of the work, the contractors suffered considerable loss: And whereas the Council in the circumstances is desirous of making a payment of six hundred and nine dollars and forty cents to the contractors: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby empowered to pay the sum of six hundred and nine dollars and forty cents to the contractors by way of compensation in respect of the loss incurred by the contractors in respect of the completion of the said works.

The Amuri County Council is hereby authorized and empowered to expend moneys out of its General Account for the purpose of celebrating and commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Canterbury, and in connection with the establishment of a centennial memorial or centennial memorials, and, for any such purpose, to make grants to the body known as the Canterbury - New Zealand Centennial Association, Incorporated.

The expenditure by the Wallace County Council during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for the purpose of meeting expenses incurred in connection with the functions held at the opening of the new Wallace County offices, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas the Raglan County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has, pursuant to section one hundred and sixty-eight of the Counties Act 1920, constituted the Ruawaro, Whangape, and Pukekapia Drainage Districts to be districts for the purpose of the construction and maintenance of drainage works therein: And whereas the Council desires to make and levy, in the said districts, rates for the construction and maintenance of necessary drainage works of a greater amount than the Council is authorized to make and levy: And whereas it is desirable to authorize the Council to make and levy rates in accordance with this section: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Council is hereby authorized to make and levy in the Ruawaro, Whangape, and Pukekapia Drainage Districts, for the years ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, separate rates, based on the unimproved value, on the lands classified in accordance with section one hundred and seventy-three of the Counties Act 1920, not exceeding the following amounts:—

• (a) In the Ruawaro Drainage District: On the lands so classified as “A” lands, twenty cents in the dollar, on the lands so classified as “B” lands, thirteen and three quarter cents in the dollar, and on the lands so classified as “C” lands, six and two thirds cents in the dollar.

• (b) In the Whangape Drainage District: On the lands so classified as “A” lands, six and two thirds cents in the dollar, on the lands so classified as “B” lands, three and three quarter cents in the dollar, and on the lands so classified as “C” lands, one and two thirds cents in the dollar.

• (c) In the Pukekapia Drainage District: On the lands so classified as “A” lands, sixteen and two thirds cents in the dollar, on the lands so classified as “B” lands, eight and three quarters cents in the dollar, and on the lands so classified as “C” lands, four and one sixth cents in the dollar.

Whereas the Raglan County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) pursuant to the provisions of section forty-three of the Finance Act 1937, by special order made on the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and forty-three, and published in the Gazette of the twentieth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-three (in this section referred to as the special order), abolished the special rates set out in the special order and instead of those rates made and levied an annually recurring rate on a uniform basis over the whole of the rateable property of the County of Raglan: And whereas the powers conferred by the said section forty-three of the Finance Act 1937, may only be exercised in respect of special rates made before the first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven: And whereas certain special rates intended as security for the repayment of the following loans — namely, the Roads, Bridges, and Drainage Loan; the Workers' Dwelling Loan, 1938; the Rural Housing Loan, 1940; the Port Waikato Camping Ground Loan and the Kopua Camping Ground Loan — were all made and levied after the first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and accordingly should not have been included in the special order: And whereas it is desirable that the special order should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The special order is hereby validated and the said special rates shall be deemed to have been lawfully included in the special order, which shall accordingly take effect according to its tenor.

(1) [Repealed]

(2) [Repealed]

(3) Until the next election of councillors of the County of Matakaoa is held, the Minister of Internal Affairs may, on the recommendation of the Council of that county, appoint any qualified person to fill any vacancy in the office of Councillor of the county, and every person so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if he had been duly elected to fill the vacancy.

(4) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the eighteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty.

(1) The rates made and levied, or which the Council purported to make and levy or proposes to make and levy, for the said period ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, shall be valid and shall be deemed to have been or to be lawfully made and levied.

(2) The special rates payable to the Council based on the valuation roll in force immediately before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, and payable during the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, shall be valid, and when demanded by the Council shall be deemed to have been lawfully demanded.

(3) The rolls of electors of the ridings of Piako County or parts thereof used for the purposes of the general elections of Councillors of the said county and of members of the Hauraki Catchment Board held in the month of November, nineteen hundred and fifty, are hereby declared to be and to have been valid rolls of electors for the purposes of those elections.

Whereas by an Order in Council made on the sixth day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, consent was given to the raising by the Martinborough Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) of a loan of four thousand eight hundred dollars, to be known as the Chlorination Plant Loan, 1949 (in this section referred to as the loan), to provide water works for the chlorination of the Martinborough Borough water supply: And whereas it was necessary to purchase certain plant and materials for the purpose of carrying out the works for which the loan was authorized to be raised prior to the authorization of the loan: And whereas payments on account of the purchase of the said plant and materials, amounting in all to the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-five and five-sixths cents, have been made from the Council's District Fund Account in anticipation of the authorization of the loan: And whereas it is expedient that the Council should be authorized to reimburse its District Fund Account out of the loan moneys: 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 one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-five and five-sixths cents.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section two hundred and fifty-six of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the One Tree Hill, Ellerslie, and Mount Roskill Borough Councils are hereby authorized to contract with the Auckland City Council for such supply of water as each Borough Council may require for all purposes for a period not exceeding twenty-one years 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 three 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 Pukekohe Borough Council, as successor to the Pukekohe Town Board, is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer, for such consideration as it may think fit, to the Pukekohe Kindergarten Association the land described in subsection two of this section.

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

All that piece of land in the North Auckland Land District, situated in Block XV, Drury Survey District, containing by admeasurement one rood, more or less, being Lot 21, as shown on the plan numbered 7278, deposited in the Auckland Land Registry Office, being portion of Allotment 73 of Section 1, of the Parish of Pukekohe, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 191, folio 275, Auckland Registry.

(1) The Napier City Council is hereby authorized and empowered, by special order, to raise the sum of fourteen thousand dollars by way of special loan pursuant to the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act and notwithstanding that certain of the works in respect of which the said loan is to be raised have been completed.

(2) The Napier City Council shall, out of the proceeds of the said loan of fourteen thousand dollars when raised, refund to its District Fund Account all moneys advanced or paid thereout, whether before or after the passing of this Act, on account of carrying out and completing any portion of the said works.

(3) The said loan of fourteen thousand dollars shall be deemed to be part of the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars which the Council was authorized to borrow pursuant to section three of the Act.

The expenditure incurred by the Napier City Council during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, in connection with the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Borough of Napier and also in the celebration of the proclamation of the said borough as a city, amounting to the sum of one thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-one and two thirds cents, and the payment of the said sum by payments amounting to the sum of six hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-five and five-sixths cents during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, and by payments amounting to the sum of six hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five and five-sixths cents during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred and made.

(1) The payments made by the Council from its District Fund Account of the sum of one hundred dollars to the late Alice Heron Maxwell, of Mission Street, in the Borough of Tauranga, during each of the years ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, as a grant in recognition of her services in permitting and assisting the public to visit her property known as “The Elms”, and of the sum of two hundred and twenty-six dollars during the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, for the purchase of mayoral robes for the use of the Mayor of the Borough of Tauranga, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The Council is hereby authorized to pay to the Tauranga Hospital Board from its District Fund Account the sum of one hundred dollars as a contribution towards the cost of erecting a nurses' recreation hall at the Tauranga Public Hospital.

(1) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to grant to the said James Percy Munro Bertram, as executor of the estate of the said George Webb, deceased, a new lease of the land previously held by the said George Webb, as lessee, for a term of twenty-one years from the date of the expiry of the term of the said memorandum of lease registered Number 18277.

(2) Any such new lease shall be in a form approved by the Council and shall provide for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of twenty-one years.

(3) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to execute all such deeds and documents and do all such other things as may be necessary for the effectual granting of the new lease to the said James Percy Munro Bertram.

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

All that parcel of land containing one rood, more or less, situate in the Borough of Levin, being Section 10, Block V, on the plan of the Borough of Levin, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 190, folio 41, Wellington Registry.

(1) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to grant to the said Mary Emily Faloon a new lease of the land previously held by her as lessee for a term of twenty-one years from the date of the expiry of the term of the said memorandum of lease registered Number 18444.

(2) Any such new lease shall be in a form approved by the Council and shall provide for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of twenty-one years.

(3) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to execute all such deeds and documents and to do all such other things as may be necessary for the effectual granting of the new lease to the said lessee.

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

All that parcel of land containing one rood, more or less, situated in the Borough of Levin, being Section 3, Block V, on the plan of the Township of Levin, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 190, folio 41, Wellington Registry.

Whereas pursuant to the provisions of the Urban Farm Land Rating Act 1932, a farm land roll for the Borough of Patea came into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-nine: And whereas by subsection three of section seventeen of the said Act it is provided that any such farm land roll shall continue in force for a period of five years: And whereas the Patea Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has deemed it expedient to revise the rateable values of urban farm land in the said Borough and has caused a new farm land roll to be made which it is desired should have effect as on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty, in substitution for the farm land roll which came into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-nine: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Urban Farm Land Rating Act 1932, the farm land roll which was signed by two members of the Council on the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty, shall be the farm land roll for the Borough of Patea, and shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty, in substitution for the farm land roll for the said borough which came into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-nine.

(1) The action of the Council in borrowing sums amounting in the aggregate to fifteen thousand six hundred dollars as part of the proposed loan before the making of the Order in Council dated the fifteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, is hereby validated and the said sum shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed, and the payment by the Council from its District Fund Account to the Timaru Borough Council Streets Improvement Loan 1944 Account of the said sum of fifteen thousand six hundred dollars is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The action of the Timaru City Council in borrowing moneys amounting in all to the sum of eight thousand two hundred dollars, as part of the loan, after the expiration of the period of two years specified in the Order in Council dated the fourteenth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, is hereby validated and the said sum shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed.

(1) The Public Trustee is hereby directed and empowered to pay to the Council the whole of the moneys in the said Depreciation Fund, and upon any such payment the Public Trustee shall not be responsible for the further application thereof.

(2) The Council is hereby empowered to pay from any such moneys to any person supplied by it with gas up to the time of the termination of the said undertaking by the Council such sums as the Council in its discretion may determine.

(3) Any moneys paid to the Council under subsection one of this section and not applied in the manner authorized by subsection two of this section shall be applied by the Council in partial repayment of the Port Chalmers Borough Conversion Loan, 1934.

Whereas the Tauranga Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has made application to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a loan of one hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars to be known as the Streets Improvement Loan, 1949 (in this section referred to as the proposed loan), for the purpose of street improvements within the Borough of Tauranga: And whereas, in anticipation of sanction being given to the raising of the proposed loan, the Council has expended out of its General Account in the purchase of plant and machinery and upon certain street works moneys amounting in the aggregate to the sum of fifteen thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars: And whereas the Local Government Loans Board has no authority to sanction that part of the proposed loan which relates to the purposes upon which the said sum has been expended: And whereas it is desirable to authorize the Council to raise a loan of fifteen thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars for the purpose of recouping its General Account in respect of the moneys advanced thereout as aforesaid: 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, an amount not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars for the purpose of refunding to its General Account all moneys advanced thereout in the purchase of the said plant and machinery and upon the said works.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Council is hereby empowered to grant a lease to the company of the land described in subsection two of this section, or such part or parts thereof as may from time to time be required by the company, for the purposes aforesaid, at such rental, and upon and subject to such terms and conditions, including the right of renewal, as may be agreed on by the Council and the company, and in granting the said lease it shall not be necessary for the Council to comply with the provisions of paragraph (a) of section one hundred and fifty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act 1933.

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

All those parcels of land in the Wellington Land District, City of Palmerston North, containing together twenty acres two roods nineteen perches and one tenth of a perch, more or less, being parts of Section 361, City of Palmerston North, and being all the land comprised in certificates of title, Volume 152, folio 223, Volume 165, folio 4, Volume 301, folio 70, and Volume 305, folio 72, Wellington Registry.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, the Western Waiheke Road Board is hereby authorized and empowered to pay out of the New Area Development Loan, 1949, the sum of three hundred and thirty-two dollars and two and a half cents being expenses incurred in meeting engineering, legal, and advertising charges as a preliminary to the raising of the said loan.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Road Boards Act 1908, or in any other Act, the Mount Wellington Road Board is hereby authorized to pay to its Chairman an annual allowance not exceeding four hundred dollars in respect of the period commenced on the sixteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and ending on the fifteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and any such payment made before the passing of this Act is hereby validated.

(2) No alteration in the amount of such allowance shall take effect during the term of office of any Chairman.

(3) For the purposes of this section a person re-elected as Chairman shall be considered a new Chairman.

(4) The receipt of an allowance under this section shall not constitute or be deemed to have constituted a cause of disqualification under section thirty of the Road Boards Act 1908.

The payment made by the Auckland Harbour Board during the financial year ended on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty, of the sum of five hundred dollars by way of special donation to the Auckland Anniversary Regatta Committee on the occasion of the Centennial Regatta held on the twenty-eighth and thirtieth days of January, nineteen hundred and fifty, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Board shall be deemed to have been authorized by the Bluff Harbour Foreshore Reclamation and Leasing and Borrowing Act 1902, to reclaim from the waters of Bluff Harbour the land described in subsection two of this section, and the provisions of that Act shall apply and be deemed at all times to have applied to the said land as if a description thereof had been included in Schedule 1 to the said Act.

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

All that parcel of land adjoining Section 6, Block 23, Town of Campbelltown, containing three roods seventeen perches and eight tenths of a perch, more or less, and shown on a plan marked MD 9082 deposited in the office of the Minister of Marine, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

(3) This section shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1950.

Whereas by the Auckland Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act 1946, the Auckland Harbour Board was empowered to borrow the sum of three million dollars to be applied and expended in the construction of the harbour works and for the other purposes specified in the Schedule to the said Act: And whereas the said Board has agreed to purchase from the Crown buildings and equipment formerly used as Government stores at Auckland, and it is expedient that the provisions of the said Act be extended to provide for the said purchase: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Schedule to the Auckland Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act 1946, is hereby amended by adding the words “Purchase of buildings situated at Halsey Street, Jellicoe Street, French Street, and Kings Drive in the City of Auckland, and plant and equipment in the said buildings”.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Act 1949, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Board to erect a Waterfront Industry building on the land described in subsection two of this section and to apply any moneys borrowed, or to be borrowed, under the authority of the said Act in the erection of the said building on that land.

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

All that area in the Canterbury Land District containing one rood twenty-five perches and seventeen hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Part of Reserve 1242, situated in Block IV, Halswell Survey District, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 149, folio 132, Canterbury Registry, and more particularly bounded as follows: commencing at the most northerly corner of the area, thence by a straight line bearing south-easterly 153° 16′ 30″, a distance of 357.3 links; thence by a straight line bearing south-westerly 243° 16′ 30″, a distance of 114 links; thence by a straight line bearing north-westerly 333° 16′ 30″, a distance of 357.3 links, and thence by a straight line bearing north-easterly 63° 16′ 30″, a distance of 114 links, to the commencing point.

(1) The Oamaru Harbour Board is hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars by way of special loan for the purpose of carrying out dredging work in and about the harbour of the Port of Oamaru.

(2) This section shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1950.

(1) The action of the Board in raising the loan after the expiration of the period of two years specified in the said Order in Council is hereby validated and the said moneys shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed.

(2) The action of the Board in borrowing the sum of four thousand dollars without the prior consent of the Governor-General in Council is hereby validated, and the said moneys shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed, and the Board is hereby authorized to issue securities in respect thereof dating from the uplifting by the Board of the first instalment of the said moneys.

(1) The Board is hereby authorized to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, for the purpose of refunding to its Power Fund Account all moneys advanced thereout towards the purchase and installation of the said transformer.

(2) The Board is hereby authorized out of the proceeds of the said special loan, when raised, to refund to its Power Fund Account all moneys advanced thereout for the purposes for which the said special loan is to be raised.

(1) The rates levied by the Board for the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and levied, and shall not be invalidated by reason of the said rates having been levied on certain lands within its district, being lands situate within the County of Wallace, in accordance with the values of the said lands appearing on the valuation roll for the County of Wallace prior to the revision of that roll as at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty.

(2) Until the valuation roll now in force for the County of Southland is revised pursuant to section eight of the Valuation of Land Act 1925, the Board may levy its rates upon the lands mentioned in subsection one of this section in accordance with the values of the said lands which appeared on the valuation roll for the County of Wallace immediately prior to the revision of that roll as at the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty.

Whereas the North Shore Fire Board (in this section referred to as the Board) and the Crown entered into two agreements both dated the tenth day of October, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, whereby the Board agreed to undertake the protection from fire of properties in or adjacent to the North Shore Fire District owned by the Crown and known as the Devonport Naval Base and the Kauri Point Naval Armament Depot, upon the terms and conditions therein set out: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said agreements and it is desirable to validate the said agreements: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything in the Fire Services Act 1949, or in any other Act, the Board shall be deemed to have been at all times authorized and empowered to enter into the said agreements, which are hereby validated and shall for all purposes have effect according to their tenor.

The expenditure by the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, of the sum of eighty-three dollars and sixty cents for the purpose of meeting expenses incurred in connection with a social function held in honour of four employees who were retiring, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas by Order in Council made on the third day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, consent was given to the raising by the Dannevirke Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of six thousand dollars, to be known as the Boiler House Loan, 1945 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to certain terms and conditions: And whereas one of the said terms and conditions was that no moneys should be borrowed after the expiration of two years from the date of the said Order in Council: And whereas the loan was raised by the Board at a date subsequent to the expiration of the said period of two years: And whereas it is expedient that the action of the Board in raising the loan should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the Board in raising the loan after the expiration of the period specified by the said Order in Council is hereby validated, the moneys received by the Board in respect thereof shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed, and the debentures issued in respect thereof shall be deemed to have been lawfully executed and issued by the Board and shall have full force and effect according to their tenor.

Whereas by Proclamation published in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty, Allotment Number 216 of the Town of Cambridge East (in this section referred to as the said land) which was vested in the Waikato Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) as an endowment in aid of the Board's funds, was taken for a public work by the Minister of Works: And whereas the compensation agreed to be paid for the taking of the said land, amounting to the sum of five hundred and seventy-six dollars, was paid into the Public Trust Office and is now held by the Public Trustee under section ninety-two of the Public Works Act 1928: And whereas the Board is unable to purchase any land suitable for an endowment: And whereas the Board is indebted to the Public Trustee in the sum of approximately sixteen thousand and thirty dollars and thirty-one and two thirds cents: And whereas it is desirable that the said sum of five hundred and seventy-six dollars should be applied in reduction of the moneys owing by the Board to the Public Trustee: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Public Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to apply the said sum of five hundred and seventy-six dollars, or such other sum as may be in the hands of the Public Trustee as compensation for the taking of the said land, in reduction of the moneys owing by the Board to the Public Trustee.

Whereas the Wellington Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) maintains a reservoir or storage tank for water on premises belonging to the Board and comprising the institution under the control of the Board known as the Macarthy Home, situated at Belmont, near Wellington: And whereas the Hutt County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has applied to the Board to supply water to the Council from the said reservoir or storage tank: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the powers of the Board and of the Council to enter into an agreement for the supply of water as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Board and the Council are hereby authorized to enter into an agreement for the supply of water to the Council from the said reservoir or storage tank maintained by the Board upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon between the Board and the Council.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one hundred and seventy-five and one hundred and seventy-eight of the Harbours Act 1950, the reclamation heretofore carried out by the Council within all those areas containing together two acres two roods thirty-five perches, more or less, being land below mean high water mark, Auckland, delineated on a plan marked MD 9135, deposited in the Head Office of the Marine Department, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow (Auckland Survey Office plan numbered 36395), is hereby validated in all respects as though the provisions of those sections had been duly complied with and the necessary authority and sanction had been duly given prior to the commencement of the said construction work and reclamation of the said land.

(2) The Council is hereby empowered to reclaim from the sea all that area containing two perches, more or less, being land below mean high water mark, Auckland, delineated on the said plan marked MD 9135, and thereon coloured sepia.

(3) The Council is hereby empowered to reclaim from the sea all those areas containing together one acre three perches, more or less, being land below mean high water mark, Auckland, delineated on the said plan marked MD 9135, and thereon coloured blue.

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act the Board is hereby empowered to transfer without consideration, firstly, the lands referred to in subsection one and in subsection two of this section to the Corporation of the City of Auckland, and, secondly, the lands referred to in subsection three of this section to His Majesty the King.

Whereas certain land from Strathallan Street in the City of Timaru to the southern approach to Caroline Bay is vested partly in the Timaru Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board), and partly in His Majesty the King and is used for the purpose of a roadway: And whereas the Board intends to undertake certain works upon the said land for the purpose of effecting improvements in the said roadway: And whereas the Board has requested the Timaru City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) to contribute towards the cost of the improvements in the said roadway: And whereas the Council is desirous of contributing towards the cost of the said improvements but has no power so to do: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to contribute towards the cost of effecting improvements in the said roadway and to pay to the Board such sum or sums as the Council shall think fit in and towards the improvements in the said roadway.

(1) The vesting of the lands firstly and secondly described in subsection three of this section in the Board is hereby cancelled and the said land firstly described in the said subsection is hereby vested in the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Incorporated) for an estate in fee simple as a site for Plunket rooms, and the land secondly described in subsection three of this section is hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Dunedin for an estate in fee simple for the purpose of a street.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Otago is hereby authorized and directed to make such entries in the register books, to issue such certificates of title, and to do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

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

Firstly, all that piece of land in the City of Dunedin, Township of Linden, containing by admeasurement ten perches and ninety-five hundredths of a perch, more or less, being part of Lot 17, Deeds Plan 85, being part Section 2, Block III, Upper Kaikorai Survey District, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 329, folio 230, Otago Registry.

Secondly, all that piece of land in the City of Dunedin, Township of Linden, containing by admeasurement eighty-six hundredths of a perch, more or less, being part of the said Lot 17, Deeds Plan 85, being part Section 2, Block III, Upper Kaikorai Survey District, and being part of the land comprised and described in the said certificate of title, Volume 329, folio 230, Otago Registry.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 11410, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Dunedin, and thereon coloured red and blue respectively.

The payment made by the Ohai Railway Board during the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty, of the sum of one thousand dollars to Jessie Bryce Rodger, of Invercargill, widow of Alexander Wyllie Rodger, deceased, the late clerk of the said Board, by way of compassionate allowance and in recognition of the services rendered by the said Alexander Wyllie Rodger to the said Board, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas by Order in Council made on the fourteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, the boundaries of the Hurunui Rabbit District were altered and redefined: And whereas by Orders in Council made on the fourteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, the Pahau, Amuri, Cheviot, Culverden, Hanmer, and Waitohi Rabbit Districts were constituted and the boundaries of the areas respectively comprised therein were defined and declared rabbit districts: And whereas the said areas comprised areas excluded from the Hurunui Rabbit District by the first recited Order in Council: And whereas by an Order in Council made on the twenty-fifth day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty, the boundaries of the Motunau Rabbit District were altered and redefined to include an area which, prior to the fourteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, formed part of the Hurunui Rabbit District: And whereas the Hurunui Rabbit Board, for the purpose of assisting the other Rabbit Boards hereinbefore mentioned, is desirous of paying out of its funds certain sums to those Boards, and it is desirable that the expenditure should be authorized: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Hurunui Rabbit Board is hereby authorized and empowered to pay out of its funds to the Pahau Rabbit Board the sum of seven hundred and sixty-four dollars, to the Amuri Rabbit Board the sum of eight hundred and ninety dollars, to the Cheviot Rabbit Board the sum of two thousand and forty-four dollars, to the Culverden Rabbit Board the sum of nine hundred and sixty-six dollars, to the Hanmer Rabbit Board the sum of three hundred and four dollars, to the Waitohi Rabbit Board the sum of nine hundred and forty-four dollars, and to the Motunau Rabbit Board the sum of two hundred and thirty-six dollars.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act 1943, or in any other Act, the provisions of the Local Authorities (Members' Contracts) Act 1934, shall be deemed not to have applied to any contracts made after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, between the Ohai Railway Board and the Linton Coal Company, Limited, for the supply of coal for use by the Board, and the said contracts are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(1) The Board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by resolution, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, an amount not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of refunding to its General Account all moneys used for the purpose of the said works.

(2) The Board is hereby authorized out of the proceeds of the said loan when raised to refund to its General Account such moneys as may have been advanced thereout for the purposes for which the said loan is to be raised.

Notwithstanding anything in section seven of the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Act 1932-33, the Christchurch Tramway Board may, out of its General Account, expend a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars in placing before the ratepayers and the public, by advertisement, circular, or any other means, its views on a proposal to raise a special loan, known as the Modernization Loan, 1950, which said proposal is to be submitted to a poll of the ratepayers of the Christchurch Tramway District.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section forty of the Christchurch Tramway District Act 1920, the Christchurch Tramway Board may, in respect of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, make and levy, pursuant to that section, a general rate not exceeding two and a half cents in the dollar on the annual value of rateable property, or five thirty-seconds of a cent in the dollar on the capital value of rateable property.