The reservation over the several parcels of land described in Schedule 1 of this Act for the several purposes specified in that Schedule is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby declared to be Crown lands available for disposal under the Land Act 1948.

(1) The land hereinafter described shall cease to be vested in His Majesty, and the said land is hereby vested in the Education Board of the District of Auckland as a site for a public school.

(2) The District Land Registrar at Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to make such entries in the Register and such endorsements or memorials on the certificate of title in respect of such land as may be necessary to give full effect to this section.

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

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement three roods seven and two-fifths perches, more or less, being Lots 98 and 99 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland under No 11378, which said parcel of land is portion of Allotment 56 of the Parish of Waikeke.

Whereas on the twelfth day of November, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the Mount Wellington Domain Board borrowed from the Bank of New Zealand by way of overdraft a sum of eight hundred dollars for the purpose of effecting improvements on the Mount Wellington Domain: And whereas the said Board had no legal power or authority to raise such loan, and it is desired to validate the same: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said loan is hereby declared to have been lawfully raised and the proceeds thereof to have been lawfully expended by the Mount Wellington Domain Board, and all payments of interest heretofore made in respect of such loan by the said Domain Board are hereby validated.

(1) The streets hereinafter described are hereby closed, and the land comprised therein is hereby vested in the said James Colin Self for an estate in fee-simple free from encumbrances.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to issue to the said James Colin Self a certificate of title to the said land upon payment by the said James Colin Self of all such fees as are prescribed by law in that behalf.

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

All those pieces of land situated in the North Auckland Land District, being public streets, and containing by admeasurement two acres one rood thirty-three perches, more or less, situated between Section 57 on the one hand and Section 58 on the other hand; between Sections 57 and 58 on the one hand and Sections 42, 537, and 43 on the other hand; and between Section 42 and part Section 144 on the one hand and Sections 146, 37, and 147 on the other hand; all the above-mentioned sections being in the Suburbs of Tuakau, with the exception of Section 537, which is registered as being in the Town of Tuakau North: as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 16/1057, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

(1) The Manukau County Council is hereby authorized, and shall be deemed always to have been authorized, to acquire a site and erect thereon a public hall and to acquire and lay out a recreation-ground within the special-rating area hereinbefore referred to, and to raise for carrying out such purposes a special loan as if for a public work.

(2) The poll of ratepayers taken on the twenty-first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, as hereinbefore set out, is hereby declared to have been lawfully taken, and the said County Council is authorized to raise a special loan pursuant to the determination of that poll.

(1) The Manurewa Town Board may by special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, and without taking the steps described in sections eight to twelve of that Act, borrow the sum of two thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars.

(2) The said Board shall apply the said sum of two thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars, as to one thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars in recouping to the said Loan Fund of sixteen thousand dollars the amount of the said illegal expenditure, thereby making that sum available for the construction of the said works, and as to the balance—namely, four hundred and ninety-two dollars—in completing the said works.

Whereas in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one the Manurewa Town Board, with the approval of the ratepayers, raised a special loan of four thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting two workers' homes, which have been duly erected: And whereas in the loan proposal submitted to the ratepayers no reference was made to the purchase of the land for the said workers' homes out of the loan-moneys: And whereas the said Board has from other sources expended the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars in purchasing the said land: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said Board may, out of any moneys available from the said loan of four thousand dollars, repay the said sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to any account from which it or any part thereof was advanced.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section twenty-eight of the Road Boards Act 1908, the Tamaki West Road Board may by special order increase the number of members to be elected for the Tamaki West Road District so that the provisions of section twenty-six of the said Road Boards Act shall be complied with, but without complying with the conditions prescribed by section four of that Act for the formation of new districts.

(2) Such special order shall come into force only at a general election of the Board, except in so far and to such extent as may be necessary for preparing any roll, or otherwise providing for such election.

Whereas on the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, the Tamaki West Road Board, purporting to act under and in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, caused to be taken a poll upon a proposal to raise a special loan of sixty-four thousand dollars for the purposes of certain roadworks and other works as more particularly set out in the Gazette of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, at page 1619, upon the security of a special rate of one third of a cent in the dollar on the rateable value of all rateable property in the Tamaki West Road District: And whereas the said proposal was duly carried: And whereas doubts have arisen as to whether some of the purposes for which the said loan was raised are wholly or in part for maintenance, and whether the said Board has power and authority to raise a loan for the same: And whereas it is expedient that the said Board should be empowered as hereinafter appearing: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said Board is hereby and shall be deemed to have been duly authorized and empowered to raise the said loan and to apply the moneys resulting therefrom in accordance with the respective purposes for which the same were authorized by the ratepayers, as the same are more particularly set out in the Gazette as aforesaid, as though the said purposes were purposes for which the said Board was duly authorized by law to raise a loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act the Mongonui County Council may dispose of, to the Kaitaia Town Board, Section 20, Block V, Takahue Survey District, containing one acre one rood, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 280, folio 45, Auckland Registry, and the Kaitaia Town Board may give, and the Mongonui County Council may receive, in exchange for that land, Sections 1, 20, and 21 on a plan deposited in the Land Registration Office at Auckland under No 15934, and being part of the lands comprised in certificate of title, Register-book, Volume 341, folio 35, Auckland Registry.

(2) The Mongonui County Council may expend such portion as it thinks fit of the proceeds of the said loan of nine thousand dollars on the erection, on any part of the lands that may be acquired by it pursuant to the last preceding subsection, of the machinery-sheds and stables aforesaid, and shall expend the balance of such proceeds on the erection of Council Chambers on the said Lot 1, part of subdivision of Section 25 of Block V, Takahue Survey District.

Whereas the Port Albert Temperance Hall, Lecture and Reading Room Association (being an institution incorporated under the Libraries and Mechanics Institutes Act 1908) did, under deed of conveyance bearing date the seventh day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, registered in the Deeds Register Office at Auckland under No 183816, acquire and become the owner in fee-simple of all that piece of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement two roods eight perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 171, of the Parish of Oruawharo, in the County of Marsden, and being the northern portion of Suburban Lot 7 of the subdivision of Allotments 169, 170, and 171 of the said parish—bounded towards the north-east by a road, 326.5 links; towards the south-east by a road, 279.5 links; towards the south-west by a road laid out through the said Lot 7, 270.5 links; and towards the west by a road, 136 links: and also all that piece of land in the parish and county aforesaid, containing by admeasurement twenty-one perches, more or less, being the southern portion of the said Suburban Lot No 7 of the said subdivision—bounded towards the north-east by the said road laid out through said Lot 7, 166.4 links; towards the south-east by a road, 176.6 links; and towards the west by a road, 285 links: be the said several admeasurements a little more or less. And whereas such acquisition was for the purpose of a hall-site. And whereas the said pieces of land are now no longer required for a hall-site, and it is desirable that they should be sold: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Port Albert Temperance Hall, Lecture and Reading Room Association is hereby authorized to sell by private contract the said lands and to convey and assure the same to a purchaser or purchasers.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland for the time being to sell and dispose of all that piece or parcel of land, containing by admeasurement two roods thirty-three perches, more or less, situated in the Parish of Titirangi, County of Eden, and being Allotment 19 of the subdivision of Allotment 34, lying to the southward of the land conveyed to Henry James Fynes by deed registered as No 78082 in the Deeds Register Office at Auckland, either by public auction or private contract, and either for cash or on credit or partly for cash and partly on credit, with power to rescind or vary any contract of sale, and upon any sale or sales to execute and deliver a sufficient conveyance, transfer, or assurance of the said land:

Provided that the net proceeds arising from any sale or sales shall be held and applied subject to the same or the like trusts and purposes, as nearly as may be, as the land from the sale of which such proceeds shall arise.

(2) No purchaser of any part of such land shall be bound or concerned to inquire or see to the application of the purchase-money payable by him.

(1) The Whangaroa County Council may, with the prior consent of the Minister of Agriculture and upon such terms as he may determine, purchase any existing cattle-dip in its district, and the land on which any such dip is constructed, and may make by-laws regulating the use thereof, and prescribing such fees and charges for such use as it thinks fit.

(2) For the purpose of purchasing any such dip the said Council is hereby empowered to raise a special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, without taking the steps described in sections eight to twelve thereof.

(1) The Governor-General in Council may cancel any existing reservation over the land hereinafter described, or over any portion thereof, and authorize the sale of the same and the buildings thereon to the Young Men's Christian Association at Auckland for such sum and on such terms and conditions as he thinks fit.

(2) The proceeds of such sale or such part of such proceeds as may be found necessary may be applied in providing another site and buildings for a boys' probation home.

(3) The land to which this section applies is particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land in the North Auckland Land District, being Allotments 1 to 7 of subdivision of Lots 12, 13, 14, and 15 of Allotments 38 and 39 of the Parish of Titirangi, containing six acres and thirty-five perches, more or less, and having frontages to Great North Road, Burch Street, and Asquith Avenue, Mount Albert, Auckland.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Cemeteries Act 1908, or any other Act, the Takapuna Borough Council, with the consent of the Devonport Borough Council, as the trustees of the cemetery situate in part of Allotment 13 of Section 1 of the Parish of Takapuna, and known as O'Neill's Point Cemetery, may construct, use, and maintain a sewer through such cemetery, subject to such conditions as the Devonport Borough Council shall impose and to the provisions of section sixty-seven of the Cemeteries Act 1908.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, authorize the District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland to issue to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland and his successors for ever, in perpetual succession as a corporation sole, a certificate of title in respect of the land hereinafter described, to be held in trust for the purposes of the said Church, with power to sell and dispose of the said land by public auction or private contract, to raise money by way of mortgage on the security of the said land, to exchange the said land for any other land within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Auckland, and to demise and lease the said land for any period, not exceeding sixty-six years, upon such terms as the Bishop may determine and to accept the surrender of any lease granted by him.

(2) The land to which the last preceding subsection relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre three roods eleven perches, more or less, being Allotment 95, Suburbs of Tuakau: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3230, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas by notice published in the Gazette of the twenty-third day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, Lots 6, 7, and 8 of Section 419, Town of Hamilton East, in the Auckland Land District, containing forty-seven acres one rood two perches, were permanently set apart as a site for a boys' high school: And whereas it is deemed expedient to authorize the vesting of the said reserve in the Hamilton High School Board: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Governor-General is hereby authorized and empowered to vest the said reserve in the Hamilton High School Board in trust as a site for a boys' high school.

(1) The parcel of land hereinafter described, being the closed portion of street hereinbefore referred to, is hereby declared to be permanently reserved for recreation purposes, to be subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, and to form part of the Hamilton Domain.

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

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing two roods twelve and two-fifths perches, more or less, being Section 424, Town of Hamilton East: bounded towards the north-west by Lots 2 and 3 of Lot 4 of Section 419, Town of Hamilton East, 757 links; towards the east by a public road 100 links wide, 82.8 and 41.4 links; towards the south-east by sections 371, 370, and 369, Town of Hamilton East, 422 links; and towards the south by Clyde Street, 293.6 links: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 1911/123, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

(1) The Waikato Hospital Board is hereby empowered to apportion, in manner hereinafter provided, between the Council of the Borough of Te Kuiti, the Council of the County of Waitomo, and the Council of the County of Otorohanga the estimated capital cost, as approved by the Minister charged with the administration of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1909, of the establishment in the Borough of Te Kuiti of a maternity and cottage hospital, after deducting from such estimated cost the Government subsidy hereinafter provided.

(2) The Board may include in such estimated capital cost the price heretofore paid by it for the purchase of land for the purposes of the said hospital, but such capital cost shall not exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars.

(3) The estimated capital cost as aforesaid, after deducting the amount of the Government subsidy as aforesaid, shall be apportioned between the said local authorities as follows—namely, thirty-four and thirty-four hundredths per centum thereof to be paid by the Council of the Borough of Te Kuiti, fifty-two and twelve-hundredths per centum thereof to be paid by the Council of the County of Waitomo, and thirteen and fifty-four hundredths per centum thereof to be paid by the Council of the County of Otorohanga and the Town District of Otorohanga.

(4) The amount so apportioned to any local authority shall constitute a debt payable to the Board by that local authority and recoverable in the same manner as if it were a contribution levied from that local authority under the provisions of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1909:

Provided that the sum of three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, being moneys heretofore paid by the Te Kuiti Borough Council to the Board, shall be taken into account and deemed to have been paid as part of the contribution of the said Council under this section.

(5) Any such local authority may, without a poll of the ratepayers, raise by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, the amount payable by it under the said apportionment, and shall pay to the Board the amount so raised; and the Board shall forthwith expend the same, together with the Government subsidy hereinafter provided, and any moneys theretofore received in respect of any apportioned contribution or as subsidy thereon and not already so expended, in meeting the capital cost of the establishment of the said hospital.

(6) If the Otorohanga County Council pledges a special rate as security for any special loan as aforesaid, such special rate may be made only over those lands within the county which immediately before the coming into operation of the Waikato and King-county Counties Act 1921-22, formed part of the County of Waitomo abolished by that Act.

(7) A subsidy under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1909, shall be payable out of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this Act to the Board on the amount of the contributions received by it from the local authorities under this section, in the same manner, and at the same rate, and subject to the same provisions as if such contributions had been levied from those local authorities under the provisions of that Act:

Provided that subsidy shall be payable on the said sum of three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars at the rate provided by section thirty-eight of that Act in respect of voluntary contributions, and any amount heretofore paid at such rate as subsidy on that sum shall be deemed to have been lawfully so paid.

(8) Section thirty-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1918, is hereby repealed.

(1) The reservation for recreation and thermal-springs purposes over that portion of the Whaingaroa Domain hereinafter described, the subjection of the said land to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, and the vesting of the control of the said land in the Whaingaroa Domain Board are hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act 1948.

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

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing seven acres and twenty-nine perches, more or less, being part of Section 86A, Block V, Newcastle Survey District, commencing at a point 50.9 links, and bearing 91° 40′, from road-peg No XCIVA shown on plan 22518, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Auckland: bounded on the west, north, and north-east by a public road, 206.9, 308.4, 168.9, 202.5, 312.4, 293.6, 284, and 392.3 links respectively; towards the south-east and south-west by other part of Section 86A, 331.4, 131.7, and 742.8 links respectively, to the point of commencement.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing one acre three roods seven perches, more or less, being parts of Sections 86 and 86A, Block V, Newcastle Survey District, commencing at a peg, No XCIII, on side of a road shown on plan 22518, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Auckland: bounded towards the south-east by a line bearing 221° 36′, 125 links; towards the west and north generally by the Waingaro Stream; again towards the south-east by a line bearing 195°, 99 links, to a peg, No XCII, on side of aforesaid road; towards the south and again the south-east by the said road, 61.8, 277.8, and 108.8 links respectively, to the place of commencement.

Be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/157, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in the said Auckland Goldfields Proclamations Validation Act 1869, nothing in the Mining Act 1908, shall so operate as to empower a Warden to grant residence and building site licenses under that Act in respect of the said land.

(2) All mining rights heretofore granted by the Warden and still in existence over any part of the said land, and all rights, easements, or encumbrances appurtenant thereto, shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the limitation as aforesaid of the application of the Mining Act 1908, to the said land.

(3) The District Land Registrar may make such endorsements on the said certificates of title as may be necessary to give full effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) The said notice of forfeiture is hereby revoked.

(2) The said occupation license with right of purchase is hereby revived, and shall be deemed to have continued to operate as if the said license had not been forfeited.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland is hereby empowered and directed to make such entries in the Register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) The provisions of section two of the Land Laws Amendment Act 1922, may, notwithstanding any restriction contained in that section, be applied to the land hereinafter described.

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

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing two hundred acres, more or less, being Section 1, Block IV, Tuhingamata East Survey District: bounded, commencing at peg VIII, on the south-east boundary of Section 1, Block II, Tuhingamata East Survey District, bearing 215° 48′ 40″, and distant 13695.3 links, from the north-east corner of last said section, as shown on plan 21172, deposited in the District Survey Office at Auckland; towards the north-east, south-east, and south-west by Section 2, Block IV, Tuhingamata East Survey District, 3000, 6666.6, and 3000 links respectively; and towards the north-west by Section 1, Block II, Tuhingamata East Survey District, 6666.6 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 12/15, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

(1) The parcels of land hereinafter described, being the stopped portions of Brown Street and McLean Street hereinbefore referred to, are hereby declared to be subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, to form part of the Tauranga Domain, and to be subject to the control of the Tauranga Domain Board.

(2) The parcels of land to which this section relates are particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing one acre one rood thirty-two perches, more or less, being portion of Brown Street (stopped) in the Borough of Tauranga: bounded towards the north-west by Section 394 of Section 1, Town of Tauranga, 940 links; towards the north-east by part Brown Street, 156 links; towards the south-east by Section 393 of Section 1 aforesaid, 1000 links; and towards the west by the Waikareao Estuary.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing one acre and sixteen perches, more or less, being portion of McLean Street (stopped) in the Borough of Tauranga: bounded towards the north by Section 393 of Section 1, Town of Tauranga, 1114 links; towards the north-east by Cameron Road, 100 links; towards the south by Section 273 of Section 1 aforesaid, 1098 links; and towards the west by the Waikareao Estuary.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same are delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/388, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The reservation as a site for a Maori school over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby set aside for the use and benefit of the original Maori owners thereof or their successors, and the provisions of section eleven of the Native Land Amendment Act 1912, as amended by section thirteen of the Native Land Amendment Act 1914, shall apply to the said land, and the Maori Land Court shall have jurisdiction accordingly.

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

All the area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement five acres, more or less, in Block IX, Galatea Survey District: bounded towards the north-east by the Rotorua-Galatea Road, 552.1 links; towards the east by the Te Whaiti-Galatea Road, 768.5 links; and towards the south-west and north-west by the Kioronui Maori Reserve, 1034.8 links and 682 links: be all the above linkages more or less: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked SG 29316, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged with red.

(1) The Governor-General shall, by Proclamation, define the boundaries of the said ridings in such manner as will bring them into conformity with the boundaries intended by the said Council, and the boundaries as so defined shall be deemed to have been the boundaries of the said ridings as on and from the taking-effect of the said Proclamation of the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, instead of the boundaries set forth in the Schedule to that Proclamation.

(2) All members of the Waitomo County Council elected since the taking-effect of the said Proclamation of the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, shall for all purposes be deemed to have been duly elected, and those in office on the passing of this Act shall remain in office until the next general election of Councillors pursuant to section sixty-five of the Counties Act 1920.

(1) The deferred-payment license granted as aforesaid over portion of the said run and the new lease over the residue area of the said run granted as aforesaid are hereby declared to be cancelled, and the original lease of the said run is hereby revived as from the date of determination thereof, subject to all mortgages and encumbrances (if any) affecting the same.

(2) Any moneys paid by the said lessees as purchase-money or interest in respect of the aforesaid deferred-payment license, or as rent in respect of the new lease hereinbefore mentioned, shall be applied towards the payment of any rent due or that may become due under the original lease as hereby revived.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland, on being requested to do so by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District, shall make such entries in the Register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(1) Notwithstanding any statutory enactment or provision to the contrary, the said companies may purchase, acquire, and hold the said lands, and the District Land Registrar is hereby empowered and directed to register a transfer or transfers of the said lands to the said companies, or to any one or more of them, without requiring any declaration or declarations which but for the provisions of this section would have been required.

(2) The lands to which this section relates are—

• (a) All that area of land known as Kinohaku East No 4B Section 3A, containing three acres one rood, more or less, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 219, folio 134, in the Register-book of the District Land Registrar at Auckland.

• (b) All that area of land known as Kinohaku East No 4B Section 3B No 2A, containing eight acres and nineteen and three-fifths perches, more or less, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 327, folio 248, in the Register-book of the District Land Registrar at Auckland.

(1) Nothing in Part 13 of the Land Act 1908, or in section seventy-four of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, shall apply to the acquisition by the Taupiri Coal-mines (Limited) of the land or of the mines of coal and other minerals hereinafter described.

(2) The land to which this section relates is—

• (a) All those parcels of land, containing together forty-six acres three roods twenty-two perches, more or less, comprising portions of that part of Allotment 78 of the Parish of Pepepe called Lot 78B No 2, Parish of Pepepe, and being the whole of the land in certificate of title, Volume 296, folio 260, of the Register-book at Auckland.

• (b) All that area of land, containing three roods ten and one-fifth perches, more or less, comprising portion of Section 78A, Parish of Pepepe, and being part of the land in certificate of title, Volume 338, folio 168, of the Register-book at Auckland.

• (c) All that area of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing one hundred and twenty-eight acres two roods, more or less, and being part of Allotment 79, Parish of Pepepe, as more particularly described in conveyance registered in the Deeds Register Office at Auckland under No 204278.

(3) The mines of coal and other minerals to which this section relates are all those the mines of coal and all other minerals whatsoever in and under all that area of land situated in the Provincial District of Auckland, being those undivided interests in Lot 167 in the Parish of Pepepe, representing approximately forty-seven acres, to which parts only of the said Lot 167 Part 13 of the Land Act 1908, and section seventy-four of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, apply.

(1) The Thames County Council is hereby authorized to sell and transfer, and the Thames Borough Council is hereby authorized to buy and accept, the said water-race, and thereupon all and singular the rights and privileges appurtenant or in any manner appertaining thereto, and such water-race and such rights and privileges appurtenant or appertaining thereto, and all rights, privileges, and powers in respect of such water-race acquired by the Thames County Council pursuant to any lawful authority, shall absolutely vest in the Corporation of the Borough of Thames, subject to subsection six hereof.

(2) The said deed of agreement is hereby validated, and the Thames County Council and the Thames Borough Council are hereby authorized to carry out, perform, fulfil, and keep each and all and every of the terms and conditions in such deed of agreement specifically set forth, anything in any Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

(3) In order to fulfil its obligations under the said deed of agreement and to repay the cost of maintaining such race since the date of the said agreement, and in order to repair the said water-race and all or any of its appurtenances and to restore the same to good order and condition and to extend, enlarge, and supplement its existing water-works and water-supply, the Thames Borough Council is hereby authorized, without taking any poll of ratepayers, to borrow, at such rate of interest and for such period as may be authorized by the Minister of Finance, such sum or sums of money not exceeding in the aggregate forty thousand dollars by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913.

(4) The power to borrow money hereby conferred upon the Thames Borough Council shall not be in any way limited or affected by the provisions of this section or by the exercise of any of the powers herein conferred.

(5) It shall be competent for the Thames Borough Council, out of any moneys so borrowed, to refund to any of its existing accounts all or any moneys expended by such Borough Council in respect of such water-race, or the purchase, repair, maintenance, or restoration thereof, since the nineteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.

(6) [Repealed]

Whereas on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty, the Thames Borough Council caused a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Thames to be taken on a proposal to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, a sum of one hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars for sewerage purposes, and such proposal was declared to be duly carried: And whereas on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty, the Thames Borough Council caused a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Thames to be also taken on a proposal to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, a sum of one hundred and forty thousand seven hundred dollars for street-improvements and other purposes, and such proposal was declared to be duly carried: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the meaning of the notice setting forth the provision for the repayment of both the aforesaid loans published as required by section nine of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, and it is not clear whether arrangements proposed to be entered into by the said Council for the raising of portion of the said loans for a fixed term may lawfully be entered into: And whereas it is desirable to empower the said Council to enter into such arrangements: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Thames Borough Council is hereby authorized and shall be deemed to have been so authorized by the determination of the ratepayers at the polls aforesaid to raise the whole or any portion of the loans authorized to be raised by such polls on the terms as to repayment either that any sum so borrowed shall be repaid by annual instalments, or that any sum so borrowed shall be repaid at the end of a fixed term of not less than thirty-six years, provision being made by the said Council for sinking fund or sinking funds as set out in the said loan proposals.

(1) The reservation of a site for municipal buildings declared by the said notice and Order in Council in connection with the said piece of land is hereby cancelled.

(2) The said piece of land is hereby declared to be an endowment for the purposes of the erection, maintenance, and improvement of municipal buildings either on the said land or on other lands in the borough, and to be vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Hamilton in trust for such purposes.

(1) The Coromandel County Council may, with the prior consent of the Minister of Agriculture, and upon such terms as he may determine, purchase any existing cattle-dip in its district and the land on which any such dip is constructed, and may make by-laws regulating the use thereof, and prescribing such fees and charges for such use as it thinks fit.

(2) For the purpose of purchasing any such dip the said Council is hereby empowered to raise a special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, without taking the steps described in sections eight to twelve thereof.

(1) The reservation for recreation purposes over that portion of the Paeroa Domain hereinafter described and the vesting of the control of the said portion of Domain in the Paeroa Domain Board are hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Paeroa in trust for municipal purposes.

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

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing one rood twelve perches, more or less, being part of the Paeroa Domain, situate in the Borough of Paeroa: bounded towards the north by Te Arero-o-hutata No 2, 391.6 links; towards the south-east by Paeroa Domain, 310.1 links; towards the south generally by the junction of Arthur and Hall Streets, 106, 55, 94, and 57 links; towards the west by Section 1, Block X, Paeroa Borough, 68.7 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/17, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The Governor-General, on the Minister of Education certifying to him that the lands hereinafter described are no longer required as an endowment as aforesaid, and on payment by the said Council of such amount as may be fixed by the Minister of Education, may cancel the reservation for the purposes aforesaid over the whole or portion of the said lands and the vesting of the same in the Public Trustee, and vest the same in the Corporation of the Borough of Tauranga in trust for the purposes of a recreation-ground, subject to such conditions as he may think fit.

(2) The price fixed by the Minister for the said land shall be paid by the Tauranga Borough Council to the Maori Trustee, to be held by him in trust for the benefit of Maori schools. Such moneys shall form part of the Common Fund of the Maori Trust Office, and the interest thereon shall be paid half-yearly to the Director-General of Education, or to such other person as the Minister of Education may in writing direct, for the purposes of Maori schools.

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

All that area in the Auckland Land District, being Allotments 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, and 613 in the Town of Tauranga, containing an area of ten acres, more or less.

Whereas by declaration of trust dated the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred, made by Samuel Crawford and four others, that piece of land, containing one rood thirty-three perches, being Lot 56 of Section 21, Block II, Maketu Survey District, was vested in the Te Puke United Church Mission Board (hereinafter called the said Board), incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trust Boards Incorporation Act 1884, for the use and benefit of the members of the Anglican, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist Churches at Tauranga: And whereas the members of the said churches at Tauranga and Te Puke have authorized the said Board to dispose of the said land by sale, but there is no power of sale in the said declaration of trust or by law, and it is desirable that the powers of the said Board should be extended: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said Board is hereby authorized and empowered to sell the said land at such price and upon such terms as to the said Board shall seem meet, and to divide the proceeds from such sale equally between the Anglican, Presbyterian, and Methodist Churches at Te Puke, and for such purpose to execute transfers or other assurances of the said land.

Section one hundred twenty-seven of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1913, is hereby amended by omitting all words after the words “an area of twelve acres three roods twenty-four perches.”

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or any other Act, the Waiapu County Council is hereby empowered to pay out of its General Account as from the first day of September, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the interest and other annual charges payable in respect of the Rotokautuku Bridge Loan No 2 until the said loan is extinguished.

(2) So long as payment is made as aforesaid out of the General Account of the said County Council it shall not be necessary to collect any portion of the special rate made as security for the said loan.

(1) The aforesaid Proclamation is hereby revoked, and the land hereinafter described is hereby set apart as and for a permanent State forest.

(2) The land hereby set apart as a permanent State forest is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Gisborne Land District, containing by admeasurement two thousand four hundred and twenty-one acres, bounded as follows: commencing at the most northerly point, being the intersection of the south-eastern boundary of Section 1, Block I, Ngatapa Survey District, and the south-western boundary of Section 3, Block I, of the aforesaid survey district; thence in an easterly direction generally to the Koranga Road, being bounded on the north by Provisional State Forest No 30 as described in Gazette, 1922, page 409; thence by a public road and Section 1, Block II, of the aforesaid survey district; thence generally in a south-westerly and north-westerly direction by the Koranga Road to its intersection with the north-western boundary of Section 6, Block VI, Ngatapa Survey District; thence running in a south-westerly direction by the last-mentioned boundary for a distance of 11875 links; thence north-westerly for a distance of 6018.1 links to the Mangatapere Trig; thence in a northerly direction generally for a distance of 9932.7 links by the eastern boundary of the Tahora Block to the Koranga Road; thence by that road and in a north-easterly direction generally for a distance of 7172.8 links by the eastern boundary of Section 1 aforesaid to the point of commencement: save and excepting roads and river-bank reserves traversing the said area: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked X/102/1, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Act 1908, the Minister of Lands, on the recommendation of the Gisborne Land Board, may authorize the said Land Board to accept a surrender of that portion of the above section included in the aforesaid lease, containing one thousand five hundred and fifty-seven acres, situated on the west side of the road along the Tokanui Stream.

(2) On the acceptance of a surrender as aforesaid the lessee shall continue to hold the remainder of the land comprised in the aforesaid lease on the same terms and conditions and subject to the same mortgages and encumbrances as those upon which he held the land comprised in the original lease, save that the rent payable under the lease shall be abated by such amount as the Minister of Lands may approve.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland, on being requested so to do by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District, shall make such entries in the Register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

Whereas on the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the School Commissioners for the Auckland Provincial District granted to John Alfred Harding, of Gisborne, hotelkeeper, a lease of Sections 47 and 48, Town of Gisborne, a primary-education reserve, containing two roods, for a term of twenty-one years from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, with the right of renewal for one further term of twenty-one years, subject to the lessee paying to the lessors on such renewal the sum of six hundred dollars, the value of buildings standing on premises on the date last mentioned: And whereas the said lease was subject to the following conditions—

(a) That in the event of the lessee declining to accept a renewal of his lease as aforesaid the lessors might, if they thought fit, pay to the lessee the value of the buildings and improvements on the said reserve as fixed by appraisement in the manner prescribed by the said lease; (b) that if the lessors did not pay to the lessee on the expiration of the original lease such valuation for buildings and improvements a new lease of the said reserve for a further term of twenty-one years should be put up by the lessors to public auction or public tender, subject to the value of the said buildings and improvements being paid in cash by the purchaser thereof for the benefit of the original lessee; (c) that in the event of there being no bid or tender of or over the upset rent on such re-offering, the said land, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, should absolutely revert to the lessors free from any payment or compensation whatever: And whereas Frederick Hall, of Gisborne, painter, the successor in title of the aforesaid John Alfred Harding, having declined to accept a renewal of the aforesaid lease when offered to him, and no bid having been received for a new lease when the same was offered for auction on the nineteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty, the said land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, has absolutely reverted to His Majesty in trust for primary-education purposes, free from any liability for the payment of compensation in respect of such reversion: And whereas it is deemed equitable that the said Frederick Hall should receive compensation for the improvements existing on the said reserve to the extent and in the manner as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

It shall be lawful to pay to the said Frederick Hall, or to his heirs or assigns, as and when received, all moneys (whether consisting of principal or interest) that may be paid by the purchaser of a new lease of the aforesaid reserve in respect of the improvements existing thereon at the time of such purchase after there has been deducted from such moneys, for payment into the Primary Education Endowment Deposits Account, the sum of six hundred dollars, together with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum per annum until so deducted, calculated from the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, and also such sums as the Minister of Education may direct as being sufficient to cover the cost of collection and disbursement of such moneys.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a rabbit-proof fence over the land described in subsection three hereof is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be reserved for recreation purposes, to be subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, and to be part of the Mangatoitoi Domain.

(2) The reservation for the purposes of recreation and domain over that part of the Mangatoitoi Domain described in subsection four hereof is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be permanently reserved for the purpose of a rabbit-proof fence.

(3) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area of land in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres two roods, more or less, and being part of Subdivision 2 of Section 5, Block VIII, Weber Survey District, commencing at a point 1.6 links in an easterly direction from the south-eastern corner of Lot 1, Subdivision 1, of Section 5: bounded towards the north by school reserve, Subdivision 4 of Section 5, a distance of 518.4 links; towards the east by Subdivision 5 of Section 5, a distance of 675 links; towards the south by other part of Subdivision 5 of Section 5, a distance of 518.4 links; and towards the west by other part of Subdivision 2 of Section 5, a distance of 675.3 links: be all the aforesaid distances more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked 1/140, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

(4) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area of land in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres two roods, more or less, and being part of Subdivision 5 of Section 5, Block VIII, Weber Survey District, commencing at a point on the southern boundary of Subdivision 2 of Section 5, a distance of 908.6 links from Esdaile Road: bounded towards the north by Subdivision 2 of Section 5, a distance of 550 links; towards the east by other part of Subdivision 5 of Section 5, a distance of 846.8 links; towards the south by a rabbit-proof fence reserve, a distance of 447.2 links; and towards the west by Subdivision 3 of Section 5, a distance of 623 links: be all the aforesaid distances more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked 1/440, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Whereas by deed of lease bearing date the second day of June, nineteen hundred and nine, registered in the Deeds Register Office at Napier under No 42281, and made between the Board of the Ikaroa Maori Land District and Anne Lindsay Guthrie Smith, of Aukengrower, Killearn, in the County of Stirlingshire, Scotland, spinster (hereinafter called the lessee), the lands and premises described therein were demised and leased unto the lessee for the term of thirty years from the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and seven, subject to the covenants, conditions, and agreements by the said deed of lease reserved, contained, and implied: And whereas the lessee has granted to William Herbert Guthrie Smith, of Tutira, sheep-farmer (hereinafter called the sublessee), a sublease of the said lands for the term from the said fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and seven, until and inclusive of the second day of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven: And whereas the sublessee has granted to certain persons (hereinafter called the under-lessees) under-leases of portions of the said land and premises for various terms which expire on the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, subject to the covenants and conditions by the said under-leases reserved, contained, and implied: And whereas it is desirable that the provisions of section one hundred and ten of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, should in certain contingencies be made applicable to the said under-lessees: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

In the event of any of the lands hereinbefore mentioned being acquired by the Crown the following provisions shall have effect:—

• (a) The owner of any under-lease hereinbefore mentioned shall with the consent in writing of the lessee and of the sublessee, be deemed to have at any time during the currency of his under-lease all the rights conferred on tenants by section one hundred and ten of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, as modified by section eight of the Native Land Amendment Act 1914:

  Provided that it shall be a condition precedent to the exercise of such rights that an owner of such an under-lease shall cause to be provided such evidence as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may require of his having satisfied the claims of the lessee and of all other persons holding any interest in the lands over which such rights are proposed to be exercised.

• (b) Each of the aforesaid under-leases in existence on the said thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be deemed to be extended for a period of six months from that date, and throughout that period shall have full force and effect as if it were part of the agreed term of the under-lease.

• (c) In the event of the lease granted by the said deed of lease being surrendered or otherwise determined at any date earlier than the said thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, each of the said under-leases in existence at such earlier date shall, notwithstanding such determination, continue to subsist until the said thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and there-after shall be deemed to be extended for a period of six months from that date, and throughout such periods shall have force and effect as if the said lease was still in existence.

• (d) The owner of any under-lease so extended shall, at any time during its currency, subsequent to the surrender or other determination or expiration of the lease granted by the said deed of lease, as the case may be, have all the rights conferred on tenants by section one hundred and ten of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, as modified by section eight of the Native Land Amendment Act 1914.

Whereas by deed of lease bearing date the second day of June, nineteen hundred and nine, registered in the Deeds Register Office at Napier under No 42280, and made between the Board of the Ikaroa Maori Land District and William Herbert Guthrie Smith, of Tutira, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, sheep-farmer (hereinafter called the lessee), the lands and premises described therein were demised and leased unto the lessee for the term of thirty years from the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and seven, subject to the covenants, conditions, and agreements by the said deed of lease reserved, contained, and implied: And whereas the lessee has granted to certain persons (hereinafter called the sublessees) subleases of portions of the said lands and premises for various terms which expire on the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, subject to the covenants and conditions by the said subleases reserved, contained, and implied: And whereas it is desirable that the provisions of section one hundred and ten of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, should, in certain contingencies, be made applicable to the said sublessees: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

In the event of the lands hereinbefore mentioned being acquired by the Crown the following provisions shall have effect:—

• (a) The owner of any sublease hereinbefore mentioned shall, with the consent in writing of the lessee, be deemed to have at any time during the currency of his sublease all the rights conferred on tenants by section one hundred and ten of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, as modified by section eight of the Native Land Amendment Act 1914:

  Provided that it shall be a condition precedent to the exercise of such rights that an owner of such a sublease shall cause to be provided such evidence as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may require of his having satisfied the claims of the lessee.

• (b) Each of the aforesaid subleases in existence on the said thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be deemed to be extended for a period of six months from that date, and throughout that period shall have full force and effect as if it were part of the agreed term of the sublease.

• (c) In the event of the lease granted by the said deed of lease being surrendered or otherwise determined at any date earlier than the said thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, each of the said subleases in existence at such earlier date shall, notwithstanding such determination, continue to subsist until the said thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and thereafter shall be deemed to be extended for a period of six months from that date, and throughout such periods shall have force and effect as if the said lease was still in existence.

• (d) The owner of any sublease so extended shall, at any time during its currency, subsequent to the surrender or other determination or expiration of the lease granted by the said deed of lease, as the case may be, have all the rights conferred on tenants by section one hundred and ten of the Native Land Amendment Act 1913, as modified by section eight of the Native Land Amendment Act 1914.

The reservation for recreation purposes over Section 114, Town of Lepperton, in the Taranaki Land District, containing one rood, is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby permanently reserved as a site for a public school.

(1) All proceedings in connection with the raising of the said loan of one thousand dollars are hereby validated, and the said loan is hereby declared to have been lawfully raised.

(2) The said Council may, out of the proceeds of the said loan, repay to its General Account such sum as was expended thereout in anticipation of the said loan for the purposes for which the said loan was raised.

(1) The vesting as aforesaid in the Crown of the lands hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby vested in the Corporation of the Borough of New Plymouth for the purposes of a public street discharged from all mortgages, charges, estates, and interests of any kind whatsoever.

(2) Compensation for the land so vested shall be recoverable from the said Corporation, and the amount thereof shall be determined in the manner set out in Part 3 of the Public Works Act 1908, with respect to compensation for land taken under that Act, and all the provisions of that Part of that Act shall, so far as applicable, but subject to the provisions of this section, extend and apply accordingly.

(3) The lands vested as aforesaid in the said Corporation are particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land, containing six and seven-twentieths perches, being parts of Sections 572 and 573 on the public maps of the Town of New Plymouth as shown on the plan numbered 6164, deposited in the office of the Lands and Survey Department, at New Plymouth, and thereon coloured pink and yellow.

Also all that piece of land, containing sixteen perches, being part of Section V on the public map of the Town Belt of the Town of New Plymouth as shown on the plan numbered 6164, deposited in the office of the Lands and Survey Department, at New Plymouth, and thereon coloured blue.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section one hundred and thirty of the Public Works Act 1908, the portion of a river-bank road hereinafter described is hereby closed, and the land comprised therein is hereby permanently reserved as a site for a school.

(2) The portion of the aforesaid road to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement four acres and twenty-three perches, more or less, situated in the Township of Lepperton, Block VII, Paritutu Survey District, being portion of a road reserve known as Sisson Terrace along the Waiongona Stream: bounded towards the north-west by Roby Street, 285 links; towards the north-east by Sections 76 and 90, 688.12 links; Whitcombe Street, 130.35 links; Sections 103 and 114, 793.77 links; towards the south by Old Road, 280 links (all of Lepperton Township); towards the south-west by Waiongona Stream: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is delineated on plan marked L and S 1/729, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered blue.

(1) The reservation as aforesaid over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and it shall be lawful for the Council of the said county to sell the said land to the said company, at such price and upon such terms as the said Council shall think fit, and to execute a transfer of the fee-simple thereof to the said company accordingly.

(2) The District Land Registrar at New Plymouth is hereby empowered, on presentation to him of such transfer, to issue to the said company a certificate of title in respect of such land.

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

All that piece of land, containing one acre one rood fourteen perches, more or less, being Subdivision 1, part of Section 6, Block III, Waitara Survey District, Taranaki Provincial District; as the same is more particularly delineated on plan No 3314, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, at New Plymouth, and thereon edged green.

Whereas the Opunake Electric-power Board was on the sixteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, duly authorized by the ratepayers of the Opunake Electric-power District to raise a loan of one hundred and forty thousand dollars for certain purposes set out in proposals submitted to such ratepayers: And whereas it is expedient that the said Opunake Electric-power Board should be authorized to expend part of the said loan-moneys up to the extent of six thousand dollars in exercising the powers conferred upon the Opunake Electric-power Board by sections eighty-eight and ninety of the Electric-power Boards Act 1918: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for the Opunake Electric-power Board to expend from time to time any portions, not exceeding in all the sum of six thousand dollars, of the sums borrowed in respect of the said loan of one hundred and forty thousand dollars in such manner as the said Opunake Electric-power Board may deem necessary or proper in doing and completing any of the acts, matters, and things which the said Board is empowered or authorized to do by sections eighty-eight and ninety of the Electric-power Boards Act 1918.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section fifty of the Land Laws Amendment Act 1913, the payment to the Kaitieke County Council, after the date of the abolition of the aforesaid special-roading districts, of the moneys hereinafter specified and the application of the said moneys towards the cost of construction of roads and bridges in the County of Kaitieke are hereby validated.

(2) The moneys to which the last preceding subsection relates are as follow: The sum of three hundred and sixty-six dollars and eight and a third cents out of the Mangaohutu Special-roading District Account; the sum of twenty-four dollars out of the Kawautahi Special-roading District Account; the sum of five hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-five cents out of the Kokakoriki Special-roading District Account; and the sum of one thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and three and a third cents out of the Pokatea-Kokakonui Special-roading District Account.

(1) Upon the surrender to the Crown by the licensee thereof of the land described in subsection four hereof the land described in subsection three hereof may be disposed of to the said licensee under section fourteen of the Land Laws Amendment Act 1912, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in that or in any other enactment.

(2) Any sum payable by the Crown by way of equality of exchange shall be paid out of moneys to be appropriated by Parliament.

(3) The Crown land hereinbefore referred to is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement fifty-one acres, more or less, being Section 22, Block XI, Retaruke Survey District.

(4) The land referred to herein to be surrendered to the Crown is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement seventy-seven acres, more or less, being part of Section 1, Block XI, Retaruke Survey District: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked 90/28R, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908, or any other Act the disposal by the Corporation of the Borough of Foxton to the Manawatu Race Course Board of the land hereinafter described is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

(2) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Wellington is hereby empowered and directed, on presentation to him of the aforesaid memorandum of transfer, to make such endorsements on the certificate of title in respect of the said land, or to cancel such certificate and issue such other certificate of title 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 those pieces or parcels of land situated in the Wellington Land District, containing four acres two roods sixteen and four-fifths perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 2 on deposited plan No 5707 of the subdivision of Section 410 on the plan of the Township of Foxton, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 251, folio 201, Wellington Registry.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a site for a public school over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be a scenic reserve subject to the provisions of the Reserves Act 1977.

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

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres three roods twenty-one perches, more or less, being that part of Lot 2 of Section 27, Block IX, Hunua Survey District, which lies between the middle-line of the Hikimutu Stream and the public road as shown on the plan numbered 216/18, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Whereas pursuant to the provisions of the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas-lighting Act 1922, the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas-lighting Board was established for the purpose of undertaking the supply of gas within the limits prescribed by section two of the said Act which limits include the Borough of Lower Hutt: And whereas a certain liability amounting to three thousand one hundred and seventy dollars was paid by the Lower Hutt Borough Council in respect of an action brought by one Albert Ford, of Wellington, Consulting Gas Engineer, for damages for breach of contract of employment: And whereas no provision was made by the said Act and no authority exists for payment by the Board to the said Council of this amount: And whereas the said Board has decided that it would be equitable that such amount should be paid by the Board: And whereas the Board, under section twenty of the said Act, was authorized to issue certain debentures in payment of the said Council's gas undertaking: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

It shall be lawful for the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas-lighting Board to issue to the said Lower Hutt Borough Council, in addition to the debentures authorized by section twenty of the said Act further similar debentures to the value of the said sum of three thousand one hundred and seventy dollars, and with respect to such further debentures and the redemption thereof the provisions of the said section twenty of the said Act, shall apply as if they had been authorized to be issued under that section.

(1) The Wellington Ladies' Christian Association, a separate institution under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1909, is hereby nominated, constituted, and appointed to carry out and perform the trusts of the will of the said Edith Ara Huntley (deceased) affecting the residue of her estate as fully and effectually as though the said association were a duly appointed Board of trustees for the purposes of the said will.

(2) The trustees of the estate of the said deceased shall execute all deeds and instruments necessary to vest the trust property comprising such residue in the said Wellington Ladies' Christian Association accordingly:

Provided, however, that the said trustees shall, during the lifetime of the person entitled under the said will to an annuity of two hundred dollars, be entitled to retain in their hands a sufficient fund to answer the said annuity by the income thereof and to vest such fund in the said association upon the falling of the annuity.

(3) The said Wellington Ladies' Christian Association shall, upon such vesting as aforesaid, hold and administer the trust estate for extension purposes in connection with the Alexandra Home for Women and in accordance with the trusts of the said will.

Whereas by license dated the eighth day of September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, issued under the hand of the Minister of Lands, Christian le Fevre Honoré was licensed to cut and remove from Crown land in Block XVI, Manganui Survey District, in the Wellington Land District, certain timber standing thereon: And whereas the said Christian le Fevre Honoré failed to apply before the expiry of the said license for an extension of time for the removal of such milling-timber covered by the said license as still remains uncut, and the said uncut milling-timber has consequently reverted to the Crown: And whereas it is desirable that the said timber should be restored to the said Christian le Fevre Honoré, who has paid for it in full: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything in the Land Act 1948, or the forest regulations thereunder, the Minister of Lands may renew the said license as from the date of expiry thereof for such term and subject to such conditions as he may think fit.

(1) The Manawatu County Council is hereby authorized to carry on the business of sawmilling (including therein the disposal of timber and by-products) in any State forest (whether within or without its district), and for that purpose may obtain a sawmill license or licenses from the Commissioner of State Forests.

(2) Any license formerly acquired by the Council to mill timber on lands vested in the Crown is hereby declared to have been lawfully acquired, and all operations entered into and carried out pursuant to that license are hereby declared to have been lawfully entered into and carried out.

The Hutt County Council is hereby empowered and shall for all purposes be deemed to have been so empowered as on and from the fourteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, to take under the Public Works Act 1981, or otherwise acquire, land in that locality in the County of Hutt, known as Plimmerton, and to erect on such land a public hall, bathing-sheds, and conveniences for the use of the inhabitants of that locality.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Taihape Borough Council may—

• (a) By way of special loan, under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, but subject to the consent of the ratepayers of the borough obtained in the manner provided by that Act, borrow a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars, and may expend the same in its capacity as the Domain Board having control of the Taihape Oval Domain for the purpose of improving and equipping the said domain.

• (b) Pledge as security for the said loan either or both of the following:—

  • (i) All annual revenues and other receipts received by it in its capacity as such Domain Board as aforesaid:

  • (ii) A special rate over the whole or any portion of the rateable property within the Borough of Taihape.

(2) Section one hundred and forty-nine of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby repealed.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a lunatic asylum over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School in trust as a site for an observatory.

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

All that area in the City of Wellington, containing by admeasurement twenty-seven and thirteen-fiftieths perches, be the same a little more or less, being portion of the Mount View Reserve, and bounded on the north by the Wellington College Reserve, and on the east, south, and west by other part of the Mount View Reserve; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, numbered 256/9, and thereon bordered red.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Council to purchase the whole of the land in certificate of title, Volume 298, folio 89, Wellington Registry, and to sell, either for cash or upon terms, Lots 1 and 2 thereof, and to apply the proceeds therefrom in or towards payment of the purchase-money of the whole of the said land, and to hold and retain the balance of the said land for the use, enjoyment, or recreation of the inhabitants of the borough.

(2) The said Council may borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, any moneys required for the completion of the said purchase, and any steps heretofore taken for the purpose of obtaining the consent of the ratepayers of the borough to any loan for such purpose are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully taken.

(1) The right of way granted by Crown grant No 95381 (Wellington Deeds Registry) and appurtenant to the land (Part Section 5, Kaiwarra district) comprised in certificate of title, Volume 157, folio 179, is hereby extinguished.

(2) The right of way appurtenant to part Section 5, being portion of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 84, folio 76, is hereby extinguished in so far as such right of way affects the railway land and the lands comprised in certificate of title, Volume 147, folio 203.

(3) The approach road, crossing, or way (as hereinbefore described) through the railway-station yard at Ngaio is hereby closed.

(4) As soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act the District Land Registrar at Wellington shall cause certificates of title, Volume 157, folio 179, Volume 147, folio 203, Volume 84, folio 76, and Volume 78, folio 105, to be amended in accordance with the provisions of subsections one and two hereof.

Whereas certain voluntary contributions for the relief of sufferers during the influenza epidemic of the year nineteen hundred and eighteen were vested in the Council of the Borough of Lower Hutt: And whereas there remains a surplus unexpended of the said contributions amounting to three hundred and fifty-six dollars, and the Council desires to expend the said surplus for the relief of unemployment in the said borough: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Council of the Borough of Lower Hutt is hereby authorized to expend the whole of the sum of three hundred and fifty-six dollars in or towards the relief of unemployment within the said borough.

(1) The reservation as a public domain over the land hereinafter described and the vesting of control thereof in the Wanganui River Trust are hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be reserved for scenic purposes and to be subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

(2) The land so declared to be reserved for scenic purposes is particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District, containing an area of twenty-four acres two roods thirty perches, more or less, being Lot A, Block I, Hunua Survey District; as the same is delineated on a plan marked L and S 1/440, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Whereas by a poll of ratepayers under the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, held on the twenty-eighth day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty, the Palmerston North Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council) was authorized to raise a special loan of twenty thousand dollars under the said Act: And whereas part of such loan—namely, the sum of ten thousand dollars—was to be used for the purpose of acquiring sufficient land at Terrace End for a recreation-ground and for laying out the same: And whereas the Council has raised the said sum of ten thousand dollars, acquired such land, and laid out the same at a cost of seven thousand five hundred dollars, and there remains in the hands of the Council, after the purposes for which the said sum of ten thousand dollars was borrowed have been duly completed, a surplus of two thousand five hundred dollars, and it is deemed expedient to authorize the Council to expend such surplus in manner hereinafter appearing: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Council is hereby authorized and empowered to expend such surplus of two thousand five hundred dollars as follows, namely: An amount of one thousand eight hundred dollars in erecting and completing a cottage on the said acquired land for the residence of a caretaker of the said land, and an amount of seven hundred dollars in the purchase of a motor lawn-mower for use on the said land, and such expenditure shall be deemed to be made in respect of purposes for which the said sum of ten thousand dollars was raised.

(1) The Tongariro National Park Board is hereby empowered to grant to the Minister of Justice a permit to cut timber on that portion of the Tongariro National Park hereinafter described and to remove the same therefrom for prison purposes, for such term, dating from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, at such royalties, and subject to such conditions as it may see fit.

(2) The portion of the Tongariro National Park to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement three hundred and thirty-one acres, more or less, situated in Block IV, Manganui Survey District, and Block I, Ruapehu Survey District, and bounded as follows: commencing at survey peg XLI, which is the junction of the southern boundary of the Waimarino Military Reserve with the eastern boundary of Waimarino 4A No 5 Block, and running in an easterly direction generally by bearing 58° 59′ 30″, distance 1702.3 links, and bearing 99° 2′ 30″, distance 1000 links; thence running in a southerly direction generally to a stream bearing 171°, distance 4555 links, and bearing 204° 30′, distance 5171 links; thence in a westerly direction generally by the aforementioned stream to its intersection with the Waimarino-Taumarunui Road; thence in a northerly direction generally by the said road to its intersection with the southern boundary of Waimarino 4A No 5 Block, and running in an easterly and north-easterly direction generally by bearing 270°, distance 312.6 links, and bearing 212°, distance 2566.5 links, to the point of commencement: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan No 62/1, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas Mrs Helen Mitchell Browne, of Kaitoke (hereinafter referred to as the claimant), has claimed compensation from the Wellington City Council for the alleged loss of her means of livelihood through the operation of the Wellington City Milk-supply Act 1919: And whereas her claim has been inquired into by the Agricultural and Pastoral Industries, Stock, and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives, which has recommended that legislation be passed empowering the Wellington City Council to fully compensate the claimant: And whereas it is desired to empower the said Council accordingly: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Wellington City Council is hereby empowered and directed to pay to the claimant, out of the Milk Account established by the Wellington City Milk-supply Act 1919, the sum of one thousand dollars as full compensation for all loss sustained by her through the operation of the Wellington City Milk-supply Act 1919.

Whereas the Johnsonville Town Board prior to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twelve, effected sales of various sections situated at Johnsonville, forming parts of the property known as the Johnsonville Recreation-ground, and received sums on account of the purchase-money therefor: And whereas on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twelve, the sum of nine hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-two and a half cents stood to the credit of the sales of such sections in the books of the Johnsonville Town Board: And whereas such sum should have been applied to purposes connected with such recreation-ground, and in particular towards the repayment of a loan raised on the security of such recreation-ground: And whereas prior to the said thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twelve, the Johnsonville Town Board had expended out of its General Account sundry sums on the improvement of the said recreation-ground, and it seemed reasonable to apply the sum of nine hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-two and a half cents aforesaid to general purposes and such sum was so applied, but without lawful authority: And whereas further improvements have been effected to the said recreation-ground out of public subscriptions, and adequate provision has now been made for a sinking fund for the loan raised thereon: And whereas it is desirable to relieve the said Board's General Account by validating the application of the said sum of nine hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-two and a half cents as hereinbefore set out: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The expenditure by the Johnsonville Town Board of the said sum of nine hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-two and a half cents for purposes other than the repayment of the existing mortgage on the said property is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas it is desirable to grant to the Rangataua Timber Company (Limited) a license for a site for a tramway over portion of the Ngaurukehu Scenic Reserve, situated in Blocks V and IX, Ohinewairua Survey District, in the Wellington Land District: And whereas there is no power to grant a license for a site for a tramway over any portion of the said reserve: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Wellington Land Board may issue to the Rangataua Timber Company (Limited) a license to occupy a portion of the reserve hereinbefore referred to as a site for a tramway in the manner and subject to the same terms and conditions as if the license were a license issued under section three hundred and seven of the Land Act 1908.

(1) The land described in subsection four of this section is hereby vested in the Corporation for the purpose of widening Luxford Street and South Road.

(2) The land described in subsection five of this section is hereby vested in James Rodgers Foster, of 16 Majoribanks Street, Wellington, settler, for an estate in fee-simple in possession, freed and absolutely discharged from the effect of the said Proclamation No 1100.

(3) The Corporation is hereby freed and discharged from all actions, suits, proceedings, claims, and demands in respect of the said taking of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 81, folio 186.

(4) The land referred to in subsection one of this section is particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land, containing one and seven-tenths perches, be the same a little more or less, being part Section 1022, Town of Wellington, and part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 81, folio 186, being the land coloured yellow on a plan deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, as PWD No 57669.

(5) The land referred to in subsection two of this section is particularly described as follows:—

All that piece of land, containing fourteen and sixty-nine hundredths perches, be the same a little more or less, being part Section 1022, Town of Wellington, being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 81, folio 186, being the land coloured blue on a plan deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, as PWD No 57669.

(1) The District Land Registrar at Blenheim is hereby empowered and directed to issue to the said Board a certificate of title in respect of the said land.

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

All that area in the Marlborough Land District known as the Tyntesfield Cemetery, containing by admeasurement four perches, being portion of Section 31 of Block I, Omaka, situated in Block XV, Avon Survey District, and being part of the land described in certificate of title, Volume 24, folio 233, of the Land Transfer Register-book at Blenheim, and in the aforesaid deeds of conveyance.

Whereas in the years nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen the Havelock Town Board, purporting to act under the provisions of paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, borrowed, by way of special loan under that Act, moneys amounting in all to the sum of four thousand four hundred dollars for the purpose of installing an electric-lighting system for the Havelock Town District: And whereas doubts have arisen as to whether the proceedings in connection with the obtaining of authority for the borrowing of the said loan were duly taken in accordance with law: And whereas the moneys so borrowed have become due, and it is expedient that the said Town Board should be authorized to borrow for the purpose of repaying the said sum of four thousand four hundred dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Havelock Town Board is hereby authorized to borrow by way of special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, and without taking the steps described in sections eight to twelve of the said Act, a sufficient amount for the purpose of paying off the said sum of four thousand four hundred dollars so borrowed by the said Board as aforesaid.

Whereas Section 30, Block III, Kawatiri Survey District, in the Nelson Land District, containing five acres two roods twenty-five and one-tenth perches, is part of the Westport Colliery Reserve which has been set apart by the Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Act 1877, and the Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Act 1901, to be administered in accordance with the provisions of those Acts: And whereas it is desirable that the said Section 30 should be set apart as a public domain: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The setting-apart of Section 30, Block III, Kawatiri Survey District, to be administered in accordance with the provisions of the Acts hereinbefore mentioned in this section is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be set apart as a public domain subject to the provisions of Part 2 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908.

The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, cancel the reservation for recreation purposes over such portion of the Murchison Domain, not exceeding in area one acre, as he thinks fit, revoke the vesting of the control of such portion in the Murchison Domain Board, and declare the land over which such reservation is cancelled to be available for disposal under the Land Act 1908.

(1) Upon the transfer to His Majesty of the private land described in subsection four hereof, and on payment to the Receiver of Land Revenue of the sum of two hundred dollars by way of equality of exchange, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, cancel the reservation as a reserve for police purposes over the land described in subsection three hereof; and may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, by the same or a subsequent Warrant under his hand, authorize the issue of a certificate of title to the present owner or owners of the private land aforesaid in respect of the land over which the reservation is cancelled pursuant to this section.

(2) Upon the transfer to His Majesty of the land described in subsection four hereof that land shall thereupon be deemed to be permanently reserved as a site for police purposes.

(3) The land over which the reservation may be cancelled pursuant to subsection one hereof is particularly described as follows:—

All that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District, being Section 72, Town of Denniston, containing one rood twelve and seven-tenths perches, and bounded as follows: on the north by Dickson Street, for a distance of 125.8 links; on the east by Young Street, for a distance of 250.3 links; on the south by Section 76, for a distance of 138.1 links; and on the west by Section 71, for a distance of 250 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid distances a little more or less: as the same is delineated on a plan marked L and S 6/7/119, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(4) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows: all that parcel of land in the Nelson Land District, being the eastern portion of Section 90, Town of Denniston, containing twenty perches, and bounded as follows—on the north by Gillies Street, for a distance of 50 links; on the east by Section 91, for a distance of 250 links; on the south by Section 95, for a distance of 50 links; and on the west by the remaining portion of the aforesaid Section 90, for a distance of 250 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid distances a little more or less: as the same is delineated on a plan marked L and S 6/7/119, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

(1) The vesting of the said land for the purposes aforesaid in the Nelson Diocesan Trust Board is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the said Board for the general purposes of the Parish of Christ Church in the City of Nelson.

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

All that parcel of land containing three roods thirty-four and two-fifths perches, being part of Section 436 on the plan of the City of Nelson and the whole of the land described in certificate of title, Volume 48, folio 47, of the Land Transfer Office Register-book at Nelson.

Section forty-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby amended by repealing subsection two thereof.

(1) The boundaries of the Nelson Harbour District as defined by section seven of the Nelson Harbour Act 1905, are hereby altered by including in that district, and the boundaries of the Motueka Harbour District as constituted by section three of the Motueka Harbour Board Act 1905, are hereby altered by excluding from that district, all that area bounded by a line commencing at a point at high-water mark on the western shore of Tasman Bay at the north-eastern corner of Section 90, Moutere Hills, Block II, Moutere Survey District; thence by high-water mark in a southerly and south-easterly direction to the mouth of the western entrance; thence by high-water mark generally in a south-westerly, north-westerly, southerly, and westerly direction along the shores of the Waimea Inlet to the north-west corner of the said inlet; thence in a north-westerly direction to the Upper Moutere to Mapua Road; thence north-westerly across the said road; thence by way of a public road along the southern boundaries of Sections 29 and 31A, Moutere Hills, Block II, Moutere Survey District; thence along a public road by the western boundaries of Sections 31A, 21, 22, and 22A, Moutere Hills, Block II, Moutere Survey District; thence by the said road along the western boundaries of Sections 86 and 86A, Moutere Hills, Block XII, Motueka Survey District; thence by the northern boundaries of Section 86A, Moutere Hills, Block XII, Motueka Survey District, and Section 90, Moutere Hills, Block II, Moutere Survey District, to the point of commencement: as shown edged red on plan MD 5702, deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington.

(2) This section shall come into force on the tenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and thereafter the said area shall for all purposes form part of the Nelson Harbour District, and shall not form part of the Motueka Harbour District.

(3) The Nelson Harbour Board is hereby authorized to pay to the Motueka Harbour Board the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, being the amount agreed to be paid upon the alteration of the boundaries of the said districts as aforesaid.

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, or any other Act, that portion of High Street dedicated as aforesaid is hereby stopped, and the lands comprised therein are hereby vested in the Corporation of the Borough of Motueka in fee-simple, with power to sell the same to the respective owners of lands abutting thereon, at such price as shall be agreed upon between the Council and the purchasers.

(2) The District Land Registrar is hereby empowered, on presentation to him of a duly executed transfer in that behalf, to issue to the purchaser of any portion of such land a certificate of title in respect thereof.

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

All those portions of High Street in the Borough of Motueka, being originally parts of Section 153, Motueka, Original Block IV, Motueka Survey District, and being Lot 1, containing one and nine-tenths perches, more or less; Lot 2, containing one and one-fifth perches, more or less; Lot 3, containing one and one-tenth perches, more or less; and Lot 4, containing one and four-fifths perches, more or less: as delineated on the plan marked L and S 13/90/15, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The vesting in the aforesaid Trustees of the lands hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby vested in the Westland Hospital Board in trust as a site for a hospital.

(2) The District Land Registrar is hereby empowered and directed to cancel the aforesaid certificate of title and to issue to the Westland Hospital Board without payment of fees or charges a certificate of title in respect of the said lands.

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

All that area of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre three roods six perches, more or less, being Hospital Reserve No 16, Block XIII, Waimea Survey District: bounded towards the south by a road, 451 links; towards the east by Railway Reserve No 8,400 links; towards the north by Section 1009, 451 links; towards the west by Beach Road, 400 links: as the same is delineated on a plan marked L and S 6/8/23, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres three roods twenty-three perches, more or less, being Hospital Reserve No 455, Block XIII, Waimea Survey District: bounded towards the east by Railway Reserve No 8, 1007 links; towards the south by Buckland Road, 350 links; towards the west by Beach Road, 1006 links; and towards the north by a road, 400 links: as the same is delineated on a plan marked L and S 6/8/23, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement twelve acres three roods seven perches, more or less, being Hospital Reserve No 144, Block XIII, Waimea Survey District: commencing at the intersection of Railway Reserve No 8 with the north side of Buckland Road; thence running in a south-easterly direction along north side of Buckland Road, a distance of 13 chains 96.8 links; thence north-easterly at a right angle, a distance of 10 chains, along part of Section 1110; thence north-westerly at a right angle along other part of said Section 1110, a distance of 12 chains 13 links, to the side of Railway Reserve No 8; and thence in a south-westerly direction along said railway reserve, a distance of 10 chains 17 links, to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on a plan marked L and S 6/8/23, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas by certificate of title, Register-book, Volume 8, folio 131, of the Westland Land Registry, issued pursuant to the provisions of the Special Powers and Contracts Act 1885, the Hokitika High School Board is seised (for the purposes of a site for a high school) of an estate in fee-simple, subject as is mentioned in the said certificate of title, in that piece of land situated in the Town of Hokitika, containing one acre three roods eight perches, more or less, as is more particularly shown on the plan delineated at the foot of the said certificate of title, and being part of Reserve 436, in red, delineated on the public map of the said town deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Hokitika: And whereas the Hokitika High School Board have granted leases over parts of such lands: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of such leases, and it is desired to validate the same: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

All leases granted over any part or parts of such lands and all transactions connected therewith are hereby validated, and every such lease shall be deemed to have been validly granted, made, and issued by the said Board, and all subdivisions, assignments, and mortgages in respect of any such lease subsequent to the granting of such lease are hereby validated.

(1) The reservation for industrial-school purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby permanently reserved for military and defence purposes.

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

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement one thousand and sixteen acres one rood one perch, more or less, being part of Reserves 1160 and 1636, situated in Blocks II and III, Leeston Survey District, and bounded as follows: commencing at a point at the south-east corner of Reserve 1159; towards the south-west by that reserve, 4000 links; towards the north-west by a public road, 6175 links; again towards the south-west by a public road, 2466.5 links; and again towards the north-west by the Great South Road, 16846.5 links; towards the north-east by a public road, 3226.3 links; and towards the south-east generally by the road bounding the Christchurch-Dunedin Railway line, a total distance of 27657.5 links, to the place of commencement: save and except therefrom Reserves 1040, 4036, 4070, and a one-chain public road intersecting the above-described area: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 1911/459, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) The Minister charged with the administration of the Reserves Act 1977, may from time to time grant a license, for a period not exceeding five years, to take water from any stream within the said reserve on such terms and conditions and at such rental as he may think fit.

(2) The rents received under such license shall be paid into the Scenery Preservation Account under the Reserves Act 1977.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of internal communication over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby permanently reserved as a site for a post-office.

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

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre, more or less, being portion of Reserve 3088, situated in Block XII, Alford Survey District: bounded towards the north-east by Rural Section 17763, 455.75 links; towards the south-east by other part of Reserve 3088, 200 links; towards the south-west by Tram Reserve Road, 544.25 links; and again towards the north-west by a public road, 218.7 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/3/294, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section one hundred and thirty of the Public Works Act 1908, the hereinafter-described portion of river-bank road is hereby closed, and the land comprised therein is hereby vested in the Milford Lagoon Recreation Association (Incorporated) in trust for recreation purposes.

(2) The District Land Registrar of the Land Registration District of Canterbury is hereby empowered and directed to issue to the said association a certificate of title accordingly in respect of the said land.

(3) The portion of the road hereby closed is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre and six perches, more or less, being part of a road reserve (formerly part of Rural Section 12891) situated in Block VII, Arowhenua Survey District: bounded towards the north-west by Lots 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 of deposit plan No 3785, 538.4 links; and again towards the east, south, and south-west generally by other part of the road reserve aforesaid, 224.4, 247.7, 58.2, 113.7, and 211.3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked PWD 56410, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

Whereas on the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and on subsequent dates from time to time until the twenty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, the Lyttelton Harbour Board, purporting to act under and in accordance with the provisions of the Harbours Act 1950, and its amendments, the Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Act 1920, section thirty-three of the Finance Act 1920, and a certain Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, sold at less than par certain of the debentures issued in respect of the loan of three hundred thousand dollars authorized by the said Loan Act: And whereas such action, though contrary to the provisions of section five of the said Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Act 1920, did not result in the Board's paying a higher rate of interest for the money borrowed than the rate authorized by the said Order in Council: And whereas it is desirable that the sale of the said debentures should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The action of the said Board in selling the said debentures at less than par is hereby validated, and such sale is hereby declared to have been lawfully made and the proceeds from such sale to have been lawfully paid into the Board's Loan Account.

Whereas the Ashburton-Rakaia and the Mount Somers Alford and Ashburton Forks Water-race Districts within the County of Ashburton, constituted under the Water-supply Act 1908, have been abolished by the Ashburton County Council, and the Ashburton-Rangitata Water-race District has been curtailed by the abolition of all subdivisions therein except the Ruapuna and Ruapuna No 2 Subdivisions and the exclusion from the district of the lands comprised therein: And whereas on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the separate accounts kept in respect of the said abolished districts and subdivisions showed in the aggregate a debit balance of thirteen thousand four hundred and six dollars and fifty-nine and a sixth cents: And whereas it is expedient to allow of such debit balance being made a charge against the General Fund of the county: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The Ashburton County Council may, by special order, abolish the separate accounts kept in respect of the water-race districts and subdivisions abolished as aforesaid, and transfer to the General Account of the County Fund the debit balance of those accounts as at the making of such special order.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, or in any other Act the Ashburton County Council may, by special order, decide to pay out of its General Fund the interest and other annual charges in respect of special loans, amounting to the sum of fourteen thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and eleven and two-thirds cents, raised under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act 1886, for the purpose of constructing waterworks in the Ruapuna and Ruapuna No 2 Subdivisions of the Ashburton-Rangitata Water-race District, and so long as such special order remains in force and such charges are duly paid out of the said General Fund it shall not be necessary for the said Council to collect the special rates made in respect of such special loans.

Whereas the Board of Governors of the Corporation of the Canterbury College by memorandum of lease dated the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, leased to the Mount Torlesse Collieries (Limited) that piece or parcel of land, containing one hundred and one acres three roods seventeen perches, being Lots 1, 2, and 3 on a subdivisional plan of Reserve No 1577, Block XV, Grassmere Survey District, for a term of sixty-one years, for the purpose of a mining township, upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the said lease: And whereas it is doubtful whether there is any statutory authority for the said lease: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said Board shall for all purposes be deemed to have been lawfully empowered to grant the said lease for the said term of sixty-one years.

Whereas by a notice published in the Gazette of the sixth day of August, nineteen hundred and eight, Reserve 3754 (formerly Section 1, Block IV, Town of Orari), containing one rood twenty-four perches, more or less, was permanently set apart as a site for a public hall and library: And whereas it is desired to change the purpose of the reservation over the said land: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The reservation for the purposes of a site for public hall and library over the land aforesaid is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby permanently reserved as a site for public buildings of the General Government.

(1) Upon the conveyance or transfer to His Majesty of the private land described in subsection four hereof the Governor-General shall, by Proclamation, revoke the reservation as an endowment over the land described in subsection three hereof and the vesting of the said land as aforesaid, and shall by Warrant under his hand authorize the issue of a certificate of title in respect thereof to the person conveying or transferring such private land to His Majesty.

(2) The land conveyed or transferred to His Majesty under the authority of this section shall be declared by Proclamation to be set apart as an endowment for Nelson College, and to be vested in the Governors of Nelson College under the same trusts and conditions as the land to be exchanged therefor is now held.

(3) The land over which the reservation may be revoked under the authority of subsection one hereof is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and ten acres, more or less, being part of Sections 37 and 38, Block XVI, Terako, and Section 40, Block XIII, Towy Survey Districts (Square 80): bounded towards the north, west, and north-east generally by the Waiau-Kaikoura Road, and by other part of Sections 38 and 40 aforesaid; towards the south-east by the Campbell Creek; towards the south by Section 48, Block XVI, Terako Survey District; and again towards the west by Section 36, Block XVI, Terako Survey District (Square 80): as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 13/90/14B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

(4) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and seventeen acres, more or less, being part of Sections 41 and 48, Block XIII, Towy Survey District (Square 80): bounded towards the north generally by the Campbell Creek; towards the east by the River Conway; and towards the south-east, south, and west generally by other part of Sections 41 and 48 aforesaid: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 13/90/14A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a domain over the land hereinafter described and the vesting of the control of the said land in the Scotsburn Domain Board are hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby reserved as a site for a school and vested in the Education Board of the District of Canterbury in trust for that purpose.

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

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement five acres and thirty-six perches, more or less, being Reserve 1475, situated in Block IV, Orari Survey District, and bounded as follows: on the north-east by a public road, 1451.8 links; on the south by Section 29010, 1084 links; and on the west by a public road, 963.9 links.

Whereas during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the Mount Somers Road Board expended the sum of two hundred dollars in part-payment of the cost of erecting a Soldiers' Memorial Hall in the Mount Somers Road District as a permanent memorial of the war with Germany: And whereas the said Road Board, by inadvertence, omitted to obtain the approval by the Governor-General in Council of the said Soldiers' Memorial Hall as an approved war memorial under section fifteen of the Finance Act 1919, and the said expenditure was made without lawful authority: And whereas it is expedient to validate such expenditure: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said expenditure of two hundred dollars by the Mount Somers Road Board is hereby validated, and shall for all purposes be deemed to have been lawfully made.

It shall be lawful for the Corporation of the County of Mackenzie to accept a transfer of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 141, folio 19, Canterbury Land Registry, known as the Fairlie Athletic Ground, and to hold the same upon the trusts declared in and by a certain deed of trust dated the eighth day of September, nineteen hundred and three, and executed by James Dundas Hamilton, Henry Struthers, and James Imlay Milne.

(1) The Christchurch City Council may by special order and without taking the steps prescribed by sections eight to twelve of the Local Bodies Loans Act 1913, raise a special loan, not exceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of investigating and obtaining expert opinions upon any works proposed to be undertaken under the authority of the City of Christchurch Electric Power and Loan Empowering Act 1902, or as to any other source of power for the production of electric energy for the city.

(2) Out of the proceeds of such loan there may be repaid to any account kept by the said Council any moneys theretofore paid out of such account in making any such investigation, or in procuring any such expert opinions as aforesaid.

Section one hundred and thirty-six of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922, is hereby amended by omitting from the preamble thereof the reference to Block LIX on the Land Transfer Record Map of the City of Dunedin, and substituting a reference to Block LXIX on that map.

(1) The reservation for the purposes of a school-site over the land described in subsection three hereof is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act 1908.

(2) The land described in subsection four hereof is hereby permanently reserved for the purposes of a school-site.

(3) The land to which subsection one hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement two acres one rood twenty-four perches, more or less, being part of Section 4, Block I, Bannockburn Survey District, and bounded as follows: commencing at the south-east corner of the said Section 4, and bounded towards the east by Crown land, a public road, and again by Crown land bearing 20° 22′, 500 links; thence towards the north and west generally by Crown land and the other part of Section 4, bearing 290° 22′, 315.6 links; 196° 13′, 72.1 links; 237° 53′, 377.5 links; 268° 35′, 346.5 links; thence towards the south-east by Crown land, a public road, and again by Crown land bearing 110° 22′, 862 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/6/370, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

(4) The land to which subsection two hereof relates is particularly described as follows:—

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement three acres two roods twenty-three perches, more or less, being Section 45, Block I, Bannockburn Survey District, and bounded as follows: commencing at the north-west corner of Section 4, Block I, Bannockburn Survey District; thence towards the south by said Section 4, bearing 110° 22′, 684.6 links; towards the east by Crown land bearing 16° 13′, 366.8 links; towards the north by Crown land bearing 280° 14′, 950.1 links; towards the west by Crown land bearing 187° 42′, 812.9 links; again towards the south by Crown land bearing 88° 35′, 255.3 links; and again towards the north and east by Section 4, bearing 290° 22′, 138 links, and 20° 22′, 500 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 6/6/370, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered neutral tint.

(1) The Governor-General may, on the reoffering under Part 6 of the Land Act 1908, of the lands hereinafter described, or any of such lands, order the same to be disposed of subject to the condition that after the first half-year's rent has been paid by any selector thereof the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period not exceeding one year shall not be demanded or collected.

(2) The lands to which this section relates are the Mount Pisa runs in the Crown, Cromwell, Cardrona, Tarras, Kawarau, and Wakefield Survey Districts, in the Otago Land District.

(1) The Orders in Council already made as hereinbefore recited are hereby validated, and the Order in Council about to be made as hereinbefore recited shall be valid, and such Orders in Council shall have effect, as if the whole of the requirements of the Public Works Amendment Act 1910, and of any other Act in respect to the making thereof had been duly complied with.

(2) Any lands in the districts served by the aforesaid irrigation-works which might have been taken by the Governor-General under the powers conferred on him by subsection three of section five of the Public Works Amendment Act 1910, prior to the completion of those works may be taken by him in the manner provided by that subsection at any time within twelve months after the passing of this Act:

Provided that in assessing the amount of compensation payable for any such lands there shall be excluded from the value of the land any increase in value due directly or indirectly to the execution of the irrigation-works aforesaid.

Whereas by the will of William Harrop, of Dunedin, estate agent (deceased), the Public Trustee as trustee of the said will pays to the trustees of the Otago District Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, their successors or assigns, an annuity or yearly sum of fifty dollars in perpetuity, for the purpose of establishing one scholarship of fifty dollars tenable for two years, to be open for competition to such sons and daughters of members for the time being of the Otago District Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows as shall be attending any public school in Otago established under the Education Act 1914, on the conditions set forth in the said will: And whereas it is expedient to provide for a wider distribution of the benefits of the said bequest: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The trustees of the Otago District Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows are hereby empowered to establish two scholarships of the annual value of twenty-five dollars each, in lieu of the one scholarship of fifty dollars established under the said will, upon the same terms and conditions, and the Public Trustee is hereby empowered to pay the yearly sum of fifty dollars in perpetuity to the trustees of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows for such purpose.

(1) The land hereinafter described is hereby vested in the University of Otago freed and discharged from the trusts declared and expressed in the said will of and concerning the same.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the said will or in any Act, the University shall, on the passing of this Act, be entitled to the immediate possession of the said land for the purpose of a site for and the erection thereon of the said dental school, and shall pay or transfer to the Beverly Trust the sum of five thousand nine hundred dollars.

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

All that area in the Land District of Otago, being parts of Sections 6, 7, 14, and 15, Block XXVI, Town of Dunedin, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 140, folio 279, and containing by admeasurement one rood nine perches: commencing at a point distant 127.14 links in a south-westerly direction, bearing 201° 39′ 42″, from the most easterly corner of Section 13, Block XXVI, Town of Dunedin, and bounded thence towards the south-east by King Street, distance 93.2 links, bearing 201° 39′ 42″; thence towards the south-west by parts of Sections 15 and 6 of the said block, distance 334 links, bearing 291° 39′ 42″; thence towards the north-west by parts of Sections 6 and 7 of the said block, distance 87.7 links, bearing 21° 39′ 42″; thence towards the north-east by part Section 7 of the said block, distance 84 links, bearing 111° 39′ 42″; thence towards the north-west by part of the said Section 7, distance 5.5 links, bearing 21° 39′ 42″; and finally towards the north-east by part of Section 14 of the said block, distance 250 links, bearing 111° 39′ 42″, to the commencing-point: be all the aforesaid linkages and area a little more or less.

The Otago Harbour Board is hereby empowered to accept the surrender of lease bearing date the twenty-eighth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifteen, registered No 4399, from the said Board to Mary Ann Barbara Hatton of Sections 3, 4, and 5, Block LXXII, on the plan deposited in the Land Registration Office at Dunedin as No 1470, upon such terms as to payment for the improvements on the said sections and as to remission of rent and otherwise as may be agreed upon between the said Board and the said Mary Ann Barbara Hatton.

(1) The lessee of any land hereinafter described may apply for a revaluation of the land comprised in his lease, and in any such case the provisions of subsections one, two, three, five, and seven of section fifteen of the Land Laws Amendment Act 1915, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply as if the application were an application for a revaluation of land under that section.

(2) If on a revaluation of land under this section the value as then determined, exclusive of the value of improvements effected by the lessee, is less than the capital value of the land on which the rent is based, the rent payable under the lease shall, as from the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, be proportionately reduced.

(3) The provisions of section fifty-six of the Land for Settlements Act 1908, may be applied to any such lessees without the limitation imposed by paragraph (c) of that section.

(4) The lands to which this section relates are the following lands in the Waiau Survey District, in the Southland Land District:—