Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act 1910
Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act 1910
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Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act 1910
Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act 1910
Local Act |
1910 No 37 |
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Date of assent |
3 December 1910 |
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Contents
An Act to remedy and prevent the Silting and Overflow of Parts of the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers, and to improve the same for Purposes of Navigation.
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.
(1.)
This Act may be cited as the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act, 1910.
(2.)
This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary and General. (Sections 2 to 6.)
Part II.—Works and Finance. (Sections 7 to 19.)
Part III.—The Waihou and Ohinemuri River Board. (Sections 20 to 26.)
Part I Preliminary and General
2 Interpretation.
In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—
“District” and “river district” mean the district described in the First Schedule hereto, or as altered from time to time in terms of this Act:
“Local authority” has the same meaning as in the Public Works Act, 1908:
“Mining,” “mining operations,” “mining privilege,” “mine-manager,” “Native land,” “Native reserves,” “occupier,” and “Warden” have the same meanings respectively as in the Mining Act, 1908:
“Mining debris” means any material thing other than water produced or arising directly or indirectly during the course of mining operations:
“Minister” means the Minister of Public Works:
“Ohinemuri River” includes all the tributaries of that river (except the Tarariki Creek) from its source to its confluence with the Waihou or Thames River:
“River” means the water within the bed of a river or stream, and includes the land in such bed from bank to bank as defined in the original survey plans, whether such bed is normally covered by water or not:
“Tailings” means the products of any ore or rock ground up or crushed in any grinding or crushing machine to any degree of fineness:
“Waihou River” includes all the tributaries of that river from its source to the point of its discharge into the Firth of Thames, but does not include the Ohinemuri River.
3 Dissolution of Ohinemuri River Board.
The Proclamation dated the twenty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, constituting the Ohinemuri River District and declaring the Ohinemuri County Council to be a River Board, is hereby revoked as from the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and ten, and the said River Board is hereby dissolved as from that date, and the assets of the Board shall thereupon vest in the Ohinemuri County Council, which Council is hereby empowered to collect or recover any debts or rates legally due to the Board at the date of its dissolution, and to liquidate any liabilities of the Board at that date, and if the assets, debts, and rates so recovered by the Council are insufficient to cover the said liabilities the Council may strike and collect a special rate over the whole of the Ohinemuri River District sufficient to liquidate those liabilities.
4 Waihou and Ohinemuri River District constituted.
The lands described in the First Schedule hereto are hereby declared to be a river district under the name of “The Waihou and Ohinemuri River District,”
and that district is hereby declared to be the district to which this Act applies and within which the powers granted by this Act may be exercised:
Provided that the Governor, by Order in Council gazetted, may from time to time alter or amend the boundaries of the said district by including therein any other adjacent lands which in his opinion will benefit by the works authorized by this Act, or which are required to be included in the district, and all lands so included in the district shall be deemed to be part of the district for all the purposes of this Act, and this Act shall apply thereto as fully as if they had been included in the said Schedule.
5 Certain existing rights protected.
Subject to the special powers contained in this Act, nothing in this Act shall affect any right which any person may have legally acquired in any wharf, ferry, or other work existing in or upon any part of the bed or bank of the Waihou or Ohinemuri River at the time of the passing of this Act, or any right which such person may have to charge fees or dues in respect to the same.
6 Regulations.
The Governor may from time to time make regulations for the purpose of giving full effect to the provisions of this Act, or for the use, management, or protection of any works constructed under the authority thereof, and may provide for fees or dues to be paid for the use of any wharf or other work or convenience constructed or acquired under this Act, and may prescribe penalties for the breach of any regulation; and any notice, Proclamation, or Order in Council authorized by this Act to be issued may be made and issued from time to time, or may in a similar manner be altered, revoked, or cancelled.
Part II Works and Finance
Works
7 Powers of Minister to construct protective and other works.
The Minister is hereby authorized to construct all necessary works and to do all other things that may be required for the following purposes:—
(a.)
Remedying or preventing the silting-up of the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers by mining or draining operations:
(b.)
Preventing or mitigating the flooding of lands within the river district by the waters of the said rivers:
(c.)
Improving parts of the said rivers for the purposes of navigation:
(d.)
Such other purposes within the scope of this Act as the Governor in Council from time to time determines.
8 Thames Harbour Board to exercise powers, subject to this Act.
The powers granted to the Thames Harbour Board by the Thames Harbour Board Act, 1878, and its amendments, or by any other Act, shall be exercised by that Board subject to the provisions of this Act, and in the event of any dispute arising between the Board and the Minister in respect of anything done by him under or in pursuance of this Act, that dispute shall be referred to the Governor, whose decision shall be final; but, subject to the powers vested in the Minister by this Act, the powers, rights, functions, and duties of the Board shall not be affected, nor shall anything herein be deemed to affect the rights of any creditor of the Board, or relieve the Board of any duty cast upon it to keep the portion of the Waihou River within its jurisdiction in a fit state for navigation, whether by the use of dredges or otherwise, or to cast upon the Minister any liability or duty for so doing.
9 Certain provisions of the Land Drainage Act and the River Boards Act incorporated in this Act.
The sections of the River Boards Act, 1908, and of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto are hereby incorporated in this Act, and shall apply to the river district constituted by this Act, and the powers conferred by those sections may be exercised by the Minister, and for that purpose all references in those sections to the “Board,”
“Trustees,”
or “Chairman”
shall be construed to apply to the Minister as the case may require, and any right, act, function, or duty therein granted to or imposed on the Board, Trustees, or Chairman shall pertain to or may be exercised by the Minister accordingly.
10 Additional powers of Minister.
(1.)
In addition to the powers conferred by the last preceding section, the Minister may from time to time at his discretion—
(a.)
Straighten, shorten, divert, deepen, widen, or diminish the width of or alter the course of any river, stream, watercourse, or drain; deposit dredgings and other materials on the banks so as to form stop-banks, reclamations, and other works; construct levées, groynes, drains, flood-gates, protective or other works in, upon, or under the bed or bank of any river, stream, watercourse, and lands in the river district; remove any trees in or adjacent to such river, or close up or alter any outlet from or inlet to the same, either wholly or partially; and remove, alter, or construct such walls, breastworks, wharves, shipping-places, and all other necessary erections, with road approaches and other convenient adjuncts thereto, in or upon the bed or banks of any river or on lands within the river district, as he thinks fit, without payment of any compensation for severance or loss of riparian or other rights in any such case, save only for the value of the land taken:
(b.)
Take as for a public work in the manner prescribed by the Public Works Act, 1908, and without complying with the requirements of sections eighteen and nineteen of that Act, any lands, whether Native, private, or otherwise, which the Minister considers necessary for any work or purpose authorized by this Act:
(c.)
Take any land in the manner prescribed by the preceding paragraph which is, pursuant to section twelve hereof, classified as “totally destroyed land,”
or any other land which lies between any stop-bank or other work constructed in pursuance of this Act and any river or stream, or any land which has been partially destroyed by reason of its having been covered by tailings, or any land which in the opinion of the Minister is likely to be specially benefited or increased in value by reason of the construction of any works authorized by this Act; any land so taken may be used or reserved for such purposes as the Minister may determine, or may be leased, sold, granted, or exchanged for other lands, or may be disposed of under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, as Crown lands, but the proceeds of any land so leased, sold, or disposed of shall be paid to the credit of the separate account mentioned in section seventeen hereof:
(d.)
Take, in the manner prescribed by the Public Works Act, 1908, as for a public work, any land, whether private land, Native land, or any reserve situated on the high-lying portions of the watersheds of any river in the river district, which in his opinion is required for afforestation; and the Governor may declare that such lands shall be an inalienable forest reserve over which no timber-cutting rights shall be granted by the Warden or Land Board.
(2.)
All lands taken in pursuance of this Act shall vest in His Majesty, discharged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates, or interests of what kind soever, for the work or purpose named in the Proclamation.
11 Compensation for land taken under this Act.
(1.)
Save as is specially provided in this Act, full compensation shall be paid to any person injuriously affected by the taking of any land under this Act, or by the construction of any work thereby authorized.
(2.)
In assessing such compensation the Court shall take into account in reduction or mitigation of the claim any benefit which has accrued or is likely to accrue to the claimant by reason of the construction of any work authorized by this Act
12 Classification of land injuriously affected by recent floods.
(1.)
The Minister shall cause a survey to be made of all agricultural or pastoral lands covered by tailings from mining operations by reason of the floods which occurred in the river district in the years nineteen hundred and seven, nineteen hundred and eight, nineteen hundred and nine, and nineteen hundred and ten respectively.
(2.)
Such lands shall be classified in three classes, as follows:
Class I.—Lands totally destroyed—that is to say, lands covered by tailings to a depth exceeding three inches, and where it is apparent that such lands are now of little or no use.
Class II.—Lands partially destroyed—that is to say, lands covered by tailings to a depth exceeding three-quarters of an inch, where those tailings can be ploughed in and the land resown.
Class III.—Lands temporarily damaged—that is to say, lands covered by tailings to a depth not exceeding three-quarters of an inch.
13 Assessment of compensation for loss sustained by reason of such floods.
(1.)
The Minister may appoint a Magistrate to inquire and report as to the value in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five of the lands totally destroyed, and also as to the value of permanent improvements placed upon those lands since that year which are now valueless by reason of the tailings deposited thereon, and also as to the damage sustained by the owners, lessees, or occupiers of the lands partially destroyed since the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five by the deposit of tailings on their lands.
(2.)
The Magistrate shall recommend what amount should be paid as compensation to the owners, lessees, and occupiers of such lands.
(3.)
The aggregate amounts payable to the owners, lessees, and occupiers of any land totally destroyed shall not in any case exceed the value of that land in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, together with the value of permanent improvements placed thereon since that date.
(4.)
In the case of lands partially destroyed, one-half only of the loss sustained shall be awarded as compensation, and such compensation shall not exceed in the aggregate two pounds per acre.
(5)
In assessing compensation under this Act the Magistrate shall take into account, in reduction of compensation, the benefit which the remaining lands of the owner, lessee, or occupier will probably derive by the stop-banks and other works constructed or to be constructed under this Act.
(6.)
The Magistrate shall also decide in what proportions the amount awarded shall be paid to the owners, lessees, or occupiers.
(7.)
For the purposes of this section the Magistrate shall have all the powers of a Commission appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908.
14 Payment of compensation.
(1.)
The Minister shall pay or cause to be paid to the owners, lessees, and occupiers respectively of the lands totally destroyed the amounts of compensation awarded by the Magistrate, and on such payment being made the land may be taken as for a public work under the provisions of this Act without further payment of compensation.
(2.)
The Minister may at his option either pay the amount awarded by the Magistrate to the owners, lessees, or occupiers respectively of the lands partially destroyed, or he may in the alternative take any such lands or any part thereof as for a public work under the powers provided by this Act, and in any such case the award of the Magistrate shall be void, and in lieu thereof the owners, lessees, and occupiers shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be entitled to compensation to be awarded in the manner prescribed by Part III of the Public Works Act, 1908.
15 Minister may grant right to work tailings, &c.
The Minister may grant, on such terms as he thinks fit, to any person the right to work tailings or other gold-bearing sands or deposits in the bed or on the banks of any river in the river district, or on any land that may be taken or acquired under the powers prescribed by this Act. All rents, royalties, or other profits derived by the Minister therefrom shall be paid to the Public Account to the credit of the separate account referred to in section seventeen hereof.
16 Minister may construct protective works in respect of private water-courses.
The Minister may also erect flood-gates and protective works wherever he may consider the same to be necessary for the purpose of preventing scour from drains or watercourses from private lands flowing into any river in the river district, and he may recover the cost as a debt due to His Majesty in any Court of competent jurisdiction from the owners and occupiers of the lands from or through which such drain or watercourse flows. In the event of any dispute as to who should contribute to the cost of the work, or as to the proportion in which such contributions should be made, the Minister may require a Magistrate to investigate the matter and apportion the cost among the owners and occupiers concerned, and the decision of the Magistrate shall be final and may be enforced as in the case of a judgment for debt recovered in the Magistrate’s Court.
Finance
17 Minister may raise moneys for purposes of this Act.
(1.)
For the purpose of providing funds to enable the Minister to undertake the duties prescribed by this Act, the Minister of Finance, on being authorized by the Governor in Council so to do, may raise from time to time, on the security of and charged upon the public revenues of New Zealand, such sums of money from time to time, not exceeding in the whole the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, as he thinks fit.
(2.)
This Act shall be deemed to be an authorizing Act within the meaning of the New Zealand Loans Act, 1908; and the moneys hereinbefore authorized to be raised shall be raised under and subject to the provisions of that Act accordingly.
(3.)
The sums so raised shall bear interest at such rate (not exceeding four pounds ten shillings per centum per annum) as the Minister of Finance prescribes.
The Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account.
(4.)
All moneys raised as aforesaid shall, as and when raised, be paid into the Public Works Fund to the credit of a separate account to be called “The Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account,”
and with respect to that account and the moneys therein the following provisions shall at all times apply:—
(a.)
The costs and expenses incurred in raising the aforesaid moneys shall be charged to and paid out of that account.
(b.)
The interest and sinking fund in respect to the loan, and all sums payable in respect of the construction and maintenance of works authorized by this Act, or in respect of the survey and acquisition of land, engineering and management expenses, compensation to owners, lessees, and occupiers of land, and salaries, wages, office and travelling expenses, and the cost of all materials, machinery, dredges, tools, plant, and any other thing required for the construction, supervision, or maintenance of the works authorized by this Act, and all other expenses, charges, claims, and demands whatever which in the opinion of the Minister are a fair charge on the moneys to the credit of such separate account, shall be paid out of that account without further appropriation than this Act.
(c.)
All moneys received from the lease or sale of land, or received as fees, charges, rent, or royalty, or payment in respect to any right or concession granted by the Minister under the provisions of this Act, shall be paid to the credit of the separate account, together with interest on any portion of the moneys herein authorized to be raised that may accrue until such moneys are required for expenditure.
(d.)
There shall be paid annually, as from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eleven, to the credit of the said separate account such sum of money as may be required to pay the interest and sinking fund on the loan raised under this Act, together with the cost of administration and maintenance (provided that such sum shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand pounds per annum), in the following proportions:—
Sixteen hundred and sixty-seven pounds from the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this Act:
Five thousand pounds from the gold duty received from mining in the river district, as mentioned in the next succeeding section:
Sixteen hundred and sixty-seven pounds from the gold-mining companies and persons discharging tailings, slimes, or mining débris into either the Waihou or Ohinemuri Rivers:
Any balance, not exceeding the sum of sixteen hundred and sixty-six pounds, which in the opinion of the Minister is required shall be paid by the persons who, if the river district were declared at the date of the passing of this Act a district within the meaning of the River Boards Act, 1908, would be liable to be rated therein; and the Minister is hereby empowered to make and levy rates from time to time upon such persons to produce the said sum of sixteen hundred and sixty-six pounds, or any lesser sum that may be required, and the cost of levying and collecting the said rates, and for this purpose and all purposes incidental thereto the Minister shall be deemed to have all the powers of a River Board, including the powers granted by sections ninety-three to one hundred and five, inclusive, of the River Boards Act, 1908:
Provided that in classifying the lands in pursuance of section ninety-three of the said Act there shall be an additional class consisting of lands not liable to damage, and in respect to such lands no rates shall be levied thereon, but all lands south of the northern boundary of the Matamata County shall be deemed to form part of such additional class.
(e.)
A statement of the moneys from time to time paid into or out of the separate account, signed as correct by the Minister and by the Controller and Auditor-General, shall be laid before Parliament within twenty-one days from the commencement of the first session in each year.
18 Payment in respect of gold duty.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Gold Duty Act, 1908, the Minister of Finance shall pay annually to the credit of the separate account mentioned in the last preceding section the sum of five thousand pounds from the gold duty which would otherwise be payable to the local authorities in the river district, and this amount shall be deducted from the share otherwise payable to such local authorities under that Act, in such proportions as the gold duty would otherwise be payable to such local authorities respectively.
19 Minister or officer not personally liable under this Act.
Nothing in this Act shall be held to imply personal liability on the part of the Minister or of any person by his direction for any act or thing done or omitted to be done under or in pursuance of this Act, and no claim, demand, or action in respect to the same shall lie either against him or them personally.
Part III The Waihou and Ohinemuri River Board
20 River district to be constituted by Proclamation.
When and so soon as the works authorized by this Act have been completed by the Minister to the extent of the funds provided, the Governor shall by Proclamation declare the river district to be a district within the meaning of the River Boards Act, 1908, under the name of “The Waihou and Ohinemuri River District,”
and such district shall thereupon be deemed to be constituted accordingly, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in that Act; and, subject to this Part of this Act, the Governor shall do all things necessary to provide for the election of members of the Board for the district, in the manner provided by the River Boards Act, 1908, as if the district were a new district, and all the provisions of that Act relating to the election of members of a Board shall apply:
Provided that—
(a.)
The Board shall consist of eleven members, to be appointed or elected from time to time as follows: —
Two members to be appointed by the Ohinemuri County Council;
One member to be appointed by the Thames County Council;
One member to be appointed by the Piako County Council;
Two members to be appointed by the gold-mining companies from whose works tailings, slimes, or mining debris are discharged into any of the rivers in the district;
Two members to be appointed by the Governor;
One member to be appointed by the Waihi Borough Council;
Two members to be elected by the ratepayers of the river district, excepting therefrom the ratepayers of the Borough of Waihi.
(b.)
The members from time to time appointed or elected as aforesaid shall hold office for three years from the date of their appointment or election, unless the Governor at any time dissolves the Board under the powers conferred by the River Boards Act, 1908.
(c.)
If any member so appointed or elected ceases to hold office before the expiration of a period of three years as aforesaid a new member shall be appointed or elected in his stead, and shall hold office for the residue of the said period.
(d.)
The members to be appointed by the local authorities and by the gold-mining companies shall be appointed in such manner as is from time to time prescribed by regulations under this Act. The members to be elected by the ratepayers shall from time to time be elected in the manner prescribed by the River Boards Act, 1908.
21 Minister’s powers to be conferred on Board.
Upon the expiration of three months after the constitution of the district pursuant to the last preceding section all the powers and functions of the Minister under Part II of this Act shall cease and determine, and all works constructed by him in pursuance of this Act shall vest in the Board; and the Board shall, in addition to the powers contained in the River Boards Act, 1908, have all the powers conferred upon the Minister by Part II of this Act in respect to those works, and in respect to the rivers and drainage-works in the district, and in respect to the classification of the land:
Provided that (save as may be required for the support of any such works) any land taken in pursuance of this Act which is then unsold shall, at the request of the River Board, be dealt with and administered by the Land Board of the district, and the proceeds from the sale or lease or other disposal of such land shall (less necessary charges and expenses of administration) be paid by the Land Board to the River Board, and shall be applied by the said River Board in and towards the reduction of any debt due by the said Board to the Crown.
22 Disposal of funds in separate account.
Within twelve months after the district has been constituted, the separate account provided for in this Act shall be closed, and the Controller and Auditor-General shall certify as to the total amount debited to the said account, together with the amount of liabilities chargeable to that account then outstanding and unpaid, and shall deduct from the total amount the sums paid up to such date to the credit of the separate account, and the balance so ascertained shall be deemed to be the cost of the works which have been vested in the Board. The amount so ascertained shall be a debt due by the river district to His Majesty, and a first charge upon the funds and revenues of the Board, and the Board shall make provision to annually pay to the Crown interest on such amount at x`the rate of four per centum per annum. The Board shall also pay annually to the Crown an additional amount (being not less than one and a half per centum of the amount aforesaid) as a sinking fund; but nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent the Board paying off the debt by instalments from time to time in any other manner agreed upon between the Board and the Minister of Finance.
23 Special powers of Board
The Board may, with the consent of the Governor, levy rates, dues, or charges on all boats, steamers, and vessels using any river in the district outside the Thames Harbour District, and may charge wharfage and wharf dues on any wharf the property of the Board, and may take or acquire any other wharf outside the said harbour district at present existing on the river on payment of reasonable compensation, and may construct, work, and maintain such wharves and ferries as it thinks fit, and may also levy such an amount of special rate over the river district as may be necessary to cover any deficiency in the payment of the interest and sinking fund provided for in section twenty-two hereof, or to provide for the general expenses of the Board.
24 Minister may retain gold duty on default by Board of payment of interest.
If the Board makes default in the payment of interest and sinking fund as in this Act prescribed, the Minister of Finance may, in addition to any other remedy vested in him from time to time, retain the share of the gold duty and the annual contribution from the Consolidated Fund which by the terms of this Act is to be paid to the Board, and may in addition thereto from time to time levy and collect the special rate hereinbefore mentioned from the whole or any portion of the ratepayers of the district, in such sums and from time to time as the Controller and Auditor-General certifies to be necessary to cover the deficiency.
25 Board to prepare annual estimate of expenditure, &c.
(1.)
Upon the expiration of three months after the constitution of the district, paragraphs (a) to (e) of subsection four of section seventeen hereof shall cease to be operative, and in lieu thereof the Board shall each year prepare estimates of the expenditure during the year necessary to pay the interest and sinking fund on the debt due by the Board to His Majesty, together with the cost of the annual upkeep, after completion, of the works constructed by the Minister under Part II of this Act, and for dredging the river where required, with office, engineering, and management expenses, including the cost of the collection of rates and of elections; and, upon such estimates being approved by the Governor in Council (who may, if he thinks fit, reduce such estimates to such reasonable sum as he considers to be necessary), there shall be paid to the Board the following sums:—
(a.)
By the Minister of Finance, out of the gold duty otherwise payable to the local authorities in the river district under the Gold Duty Act, 1908, one-half the amount of such approved estimated expenditure; but such payment shall not exceed the sum of five thousand pounds annually:
(b.)
By the Minister of Finance, out of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this Act, one-sixth of the amount of such approved estimated expenditure; but such payment shall not exceed the sum of one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven pounds annually:
(c.)
By the gold-mining companies or persons discharging tailings, slimes, or mining débris into either the Waihou or Ohinemuri Rivers, one-sixth of the amount of such approved expenditure; but such payment shall not exceed the sum of one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven pounds annually.
(2.)
At the end of each financial year the Board shall ascertain the amount of its actual expenditure during such year for the purposes in this section hereinbefore mentioned, and if it is found that the Board has received under the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) hereof more than the proportions of one-half, one-sixth, and one-sixth respectively of the actual expenditure so ascertained, it shall forthwith refund or give credit during the following year to the Minister, companies, or persons, as the case may be, in respect to the amounts received by the Board in excess of such proportions of such actual expenditure.
26 Contributions by gold-mining companies.
The contributions required by sections seventeen and twenty-five hereof to be made by the gold-mining companies therein referred to shall from time to time be apportioned by the Warden among the companies concerned, and he shall determine the proportions so to be paid by each company in such manner as he considers just, taking into account the estimated amount of tailings, slimes, or mining debris discharged into the river, and the amount of gold produced by each such company from its mine during the previous year; and the amount in the case of each company so determined is hereby declared to be a debt due from each such company or its assigns respectively to His Majesty or to the Board, as the case may require, and may be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE The Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers District
Starting from the fairway buoy in the Firth of Thames, just beyond the bar, and proceeding thence in an east-south-east direction for three and three-quarters sea miles, as shown by the black line on Chart No. 1108, River Thames, to Opani Point, on the western side of the entrance of the Waihou or Thames River, in Block VII, Thames Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a south and south-easterly direction through Blocks VII and XI, Thames Survey District; through Blocks II, III, VII, XI, XII, XV, and XVI, Waihou Survey District; through Blocks IV, VIII, and XII, Waitoa Survey District; through Blocks IX and XI, Aroha Survey District; through Blocks I, II, V, VI, IX, XIII, and XIV, Wairere Survey District; through Blocks II, III, VI, IX, X, and XIII, Tapapa Survey District; through Blocks I, V, VI, X, XI, XV, and XVI, Patetere North Survey District; through Block VII, Patetere North-east Survey District; through Blocks I and II, Horohoro West Survey District; through Blocks I and V, Horohoro Survey District: thence generally north-westerly and northerly through Block I, Horohoro Survey District; through Block XIII, Rotorua Survey District; through Blocks XI, VI, IV, II, and I, Patetere North-east Survey District; through Blocks IV, II, and I, Tapapa East Survey District; through Blocks VIII and IV, Tapapa Survey District; through Blocks XVI and XV, Wairere Survey District; through Blocks XI, VIII, and VII, Aongatete Survey District; through Blocks XI, IV, VII, and III, Wairere Survey District; through Blocks X, VII, and III, Katikati Survey District; through Blocks VII, IV, and III, Aroha Survey District; through Blocks XVI, XII, XI, VII, VI, II, and I, Ohinemuri Survey District; through Blocks XIII, IX, and V, Tairua Survey District: thence westerly to the east side of the mouth of the Waihou River, near Parawai, through Blocks VI, V, IX, VIII, and VII, Thames Survey District; and thence west-by-north to the starting-point at the fairway buoy in the Firth of Thames: as the same is shown drawn in blue on the plan, marked P.W.D. 27819, and deposited in the Public Works Office, at Wellington; and includes the whole of the basins of the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Sections in the River Boards Act, 1908, and in the Land Drainage Act, 1908, which are incorporated in this Act:—
River Boards Act, 1908: Sections numbered 2, 3, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73(1), 74 to 82 inclusive, 93 to 105 inclusive, 122, 124, 125, and 126.
Land Drainage Act, 1908: Sections numbered 17, 18, 19, 23, 26, 57.
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Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act 1910
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