This Act may be cited as the Wanganui Harbour District and Empowering Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Wanganui Harbour District and Empowering Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

In addition to the authority conferred upon the Board by section six of the principal Act, as amended by section forty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1918, the Board is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of the principal Act, to borrow a sum or sums, not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred thousand pounds, to be applied to the purposes set out in the Schedule hereto, being works authorized by and defined in section five of the prinpcial Act.

The Board may, out of moneys borrowed pursuant to the authority conferred by this section, pay—

and may also, out of moneys so borrowed, repay to any account any sum or sums advanced therefrom and applied after the passing of this Act, but prior to the raising of such moneys or any portion thereof, to the purposes for which such moneys are authorized to be borrowed.

For the purposes of this Act the Clerks of the respective boroughs, town districts, and County Councils comprised in whole or in part within the harbour district shall, at the request of the Chairman of the Board (to be made not earlier than three calendar months before the date proposed for the taking of a poll under this Act), and at the cost of the Board, supply to the Board, within one calendar month from the date of such request, a list containing the names and occupations of the persons whose names appear in the occupiers column of the district valuation roll then last supplied to the respective local bodies by the Valuer-General, acting under the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, in so far as such roll relates to any lands situate within the harbour district. The said list shall also show the situation of at least one property of every occupier.

Every such list shall be corrected up to the date upon which it is supplied to the Board, and shall be duly certified to by the said respective Clerks.

From the particulars supplied under the foregoing provisions of this section the Secretary to the Board shall prepare a roll containing the names and occupations and the situation of the property of every person whose name appears on any of the aforesaid lists. The said roll shall be signed by the Chairman and two members of the Board, and shall be the roll upon which any poll shall be taken under this Act, and shall be conclusive so far as it extends, and shall be receivable in evidence in proof of the facts therein appearing.

This section is in substitution for subsection three of section eight of the principal Act, and that subsection is hereby accordingly repealed.

The Board shall appoint some person to be the Returning Officer for the conduct of any poll to be taken under this Act.

Every poll to be taken for the purposes of this Act shall commence at nine o’clock in the forenoon of the day appointed, and shall close at seven o’clock in the afternoon of the same day.

Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of the principal Act shall apply with respect to all moneys borrowed under the authority of this Act, and to every poll of ratepayers taken or proposed to be taken for the purposes of this Act.

Section forty of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1913, in so far as it relates to the principal Act is hereby repealed.