Power to extend Town Board water-supply to borough and to rate the borough.

Application of existing electric-lighting powers to lighting by gas.

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Waipawa Borough Act 1907

Local Act		1907 No 26
Date of assent		23 November 1907

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Constitution of Borough of Waipawa.
3	Abolition of Waipawa Town District.
4	Adjustments with local authorities.
5	Power to extend Town Board water-supply to borough and to rate the borough.
6	Application of existing electric-lighting powers to lighting by gas.
7	Commencement of Act.
	Schedule

An Act to constitute the Borough of Waipawa, and to confer certain Powers upon the Council thereof, and for other Purposes.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Waipawa Borough Act, 1907.

2 Constitution of Borough of Waipawa.

(1.)

Notwithstanding anything in the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900, the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby constituted a borough under the name of the Borough of Waipawa.

(2.)

The provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900, shall apply to the said borough as if it had been declared a borough under Part XVI of that Act.

(3.)

Until the first Council of the said borough comes into office, any power given by law to Borough Councils may be exercised within or with respect to the said borough by the Governor.

3 Abolition of Waipawa Town District.

(1.)

On the coming into operation of this Act the Waipawa Town District shall be abolished, and the Corporation and Town Board thereof shall be dissolved.

(2.)

Upon such abolition of the town district, all the property, liabilities, contracts, and engagements of the Corporation thereof shall be and are hereby vested in and transferred to the Corporation of the said borough.

4 Adjustments with local authorities.

All adjustments of property, liabilities, contracts, or engagements between the Council of the said borough and any other local authority or local authorities shall be made under section one hundred and eighty-three of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.

5 Power to extend Town Board water-supply to borough and to rate the borough.

Whereas the said Town Board has recently raised a special loan of seven thousand pounds for water-supply purposes, and has in connection with such loan made a special order making a special rate on all rateable property in the said town district: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

(a.)

The said Council may out of the said loan-moneys lay water-mains in and give a water-supply to any part of the borough, and may under and subject to the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900, make and levy water rates within the limits of the borough.

(b.)

The said Council may, with the written consent of all the holders of the debentures issued by the Town Board in respect of the said special loan, revoke the said special order, and make in lieu thereof a special order making and levying a special rate upon all rateable property within the borough for providing interest and sinking fund in connection with such loan.

(c.)

The Council may also, if it shall think fit, by special order pledge as further security for the loan the works and other subject-matters of the loan arid the revenues therefrom.

6 Application of existing electric-lighting powers to lighting by gas.

The Council of the said borough shall have the like powers to contract for a supply of gas, and supply such gas to the inhabitants of the borough, and to contract with any other corporation or person to supply gas to the inhabitants of the borough, and to authorise any corporation or person acting under any such contract to exercise the powers conferred upon a Borough Council by sections three hundred and nineteen to three hundred and thirty-four of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900, as are given by section three hundred and thirty-five of that Act as amended by section eight of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1906, to Borough Councils in respect of the lighting by and supply of electricity.

7 Commencement of Act.

This Act shall come into operation on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eight.

Schedule

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, commencing at the south-east corner of Block 22, Patangata Crown-grant District, on the left bank of the Waipawa River; thence by a line due west to the centre of the Waipawa River; thence by the centre of the aforesaid river to the south-east corner of a public recreation reserve; thence westerly along the southern boundary of the reserve and the centre of the Waipawa River to a point due south of the south-west corner of Block 62, Patangata Crown-grant District; thence due north to the south-west corner of the aforesaid Block 62; thence northerly along the western boundary of the last-mentioned block to its north-west corner; thence north-easterly in a straight line to the north-eastern corner of Block 72, Patangata Crown-grant District; thence easterly along the northern boundary of Blocks 48 and 14, Patangata Crown-grant District, to the north-east corner of the aforesaid Block 14; thence south-east in a straight line to the centre of a junction of roads at or near the north-west corner of Section 12, Homewood; thence in an easterly direction by the centre of a public road, being the northern boundary of Sections 12, 13, 33, 34, and 35, to the north-east corner of Section 35, Homewood; thence southerly by the eastern boundary of Sections 35 and 45, Homewood; thence easterly by the northern boundary of Block 22, Patangata Crown-grant District; thence southerly by the eastern boundary of Block 22, Patangata Crown-grant District, to the point of commencement on the left bank of the Waipawa River.

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