This Act may be cited as the Local Legislation Act 1947.

Whereas the Raglan County Council (in this section referred to as the Council), in anticipation of the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board being given to the raising of the Housing Loan 1946 of the sum of 25,000 pounds (in this section referred to as the loan), expended out of its County Fund Account moneys amounting in the aggregate to the sum of 1,543 pounds in and towards the erection of 2 houses for its employees:

And whereas the loan has since been raised pursuant to authority granted in that behalf, and the Council is desirous of recouping its County Fund Account out of the proceeds of the loan:

And whereas it is desirable to authorise the Council to recoup its County Fund Account in respect of the expenditure incurred in anticipation of sanction being given to the raising of the loan:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to refund to its County Fund Account, out of the proceeds of the loan, the said sum of 1,543 pounds.

Whereas the Palmerston North City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has obtained the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board to the raising of 3 loans known as the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1945, the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1946, No 2, and the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1946, No 3, respectively:

And whereas, in anticipation of the necessary authority being granted to the raising of the Palmerston North City Council Transit Housing Loan, 1945, the Council expended from its District Fund Account the sum of 871 pounds 9 shillings and 8 pence, and, in anticipation of the necessary authority being granted to the raising of the other 2 loans hereinbefore mentioned, the Council expended from that Account the sum of 5,744 pounds 13 shillings and 5 pence:

And whereas repayment of the said sums of 871 pounds 9 shillings and 8 pence, and 5,744 pounds 13 shillings and 5 pence, has since been made by the Council into its District Fund Account from the proceeds of the said loans:

And whereas it is desirable to validate the repayment so made into that Account:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The payment by the Council into its District Fund Account from its Transit Housing Loan Accounts of the sum of 871 pounds 9 shillings and 8 pence and the sum of 5,744 pounds 13 shillings and 5 pence by way of refund of moneys previously expended for transit housing purposes is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Palmerston North City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) applied to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a loan of the sum of 7,500 pounds for the purpose of purchasing and installing a water-gas plant, pan ash-separator, and jib crane:

And whereas the Local Government Loans Board sanctioned the application to the extent of the sum of 5,000 pounds and consent to the raising of that sum was given by Order in Council dated 15 January 1947:

And whereas part of the said equipment arrived in New Zealand before the date of the said Order in Council and it was necessary for the Council to expend the sum of 2,500 pounds from its District Fund Account in the purchase and installation of that part of the equipment:

And whereas, in the circumstances, the Local Government Loans Board has no authority to sanction the raising of the balance of the proposed loan, amounting to the sum of 2,500 pounds, and it is desirable to authorise the Council to raise a loan of that amount for the purpose of recouping its District Fund Account:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised to borrow by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926 by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act, an amount not exceeding the sum of 2,500 pounds for the purpose of refunding to its District Fund Account all moneys advanced thereout towards the purchase and installation of gas plant and equipment.

The expenditure by the Whangarei Borough Council during the financial year ended on 31 March 1947 of the sum of 1,124 pounds 9 shillings and 10 pence, for the purpose of meeting expenses incurred in connection with the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Borough of Whangarei, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

The payment by the Tauranga Borough Council, out of its District Fund Account, of the sum of 50 pounds as a grant to Alice Heron Maxwell, of Mission Street, in the Borough of Tauranga, in recognition of her services in permitting and assisting the public to visit her property known as “The Elms”, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas the Te Awamutu Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) applied to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a loan of the sum of 18,000 pounds for transit housing purposes:

And whereas the Local Government Loans Board sanctioned the application on 31 December 1946:

And whereas, before that date, the Council expended from its District Fund Account, for transit housing purposes the sum of 719 pounds 5 shillings and 2 pence, which sum has since, without legal authority, been repaid into that Account from the proceeds of the loan:

And whereas it is desirable to validate the repayment so made:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The payment by the Council into its District Fund Account of the sum of 719 pounds 5 shillings and 2 pence from its Transit Housing Loan Account by way of a refund of moneys previously expended for transit housing purposes is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

The Christchurch City Council is hereby authorised to make a payment of the sum of 1,000 pounds to the Young Women's Christian Association as a donation to the building fund established by the Association in Christchurch.

Whereas the Masterton Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) established a Transit Housing Centre in the Borough of Masterton, and, in anticipation of obtaining sanction to the raising of a loan for that purpose, expended from its District Fund Account a total sum of 4,000 pounds:

And whereas the Local Government Loans Board has now no authority to sanction an application by the Council for a loan for the purpose of enabling the Council to refund to its District Fund Account the moneys expended in establishing the Transit Housing Centre, and it is desirable that authority be given for that purpose:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to borrow, by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act, an amount not exceeding the sum of 4,000 pounds, for the purpose of refunding to the Council's District Fund Account all moneys heretofore applied by the Council in the establishment of the aforesaid Transit Housing Centre.

The expenditure by the Rotorua Borough Council of the sum of 325 pounds 19 shillings and 8 pence in connection with the reception and entertainment of delegates and other persons attending the annual meeting of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, Incorporated, held at Rotorua during the month of March 1947, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas the Hastings Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has received the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board to the raising of a loan of the sum of 10,000 pounds (known as Community Centre (Preliminary) Loan, 1946) for the purpose of purchasing land to provide a site for a Community Centre:

And whereas, in anticipation of the sanction being given, the Council expended from its District Fund Account the sum of 1,100 pounds in purchasing portion of the land required:

And whereas part of the loan has since been raised pursuant to authority granted in that behalf, and the Council is desirous of recouping its District Fund Account out of the proceeds of the loan:

And whereas it is desirable to authorise the Council to recoup its District Fund Account in respect of the expenditure incurred:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised and empowered to refund to its District Fund Account, out of the proceeds of the loan, the said sum of 1,100 pounds.

Whereas the Levin Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) has, during the period that commenced on 1 April 1940 and ended on 31 March 1947, carried out certain extensions and improvements to the Levin Municipal Abattoir:

And whereas the Council has paid the sum of 2,522 pounds 4 shillings and 7 pence out of its District Fund Account for the purpose of making the extensions and improvements, and has charged that amount to its Abattoir Revenue Account:

And whereas, in order to reimburse the Abattoir Revenue Account, and to make provision for possible future minor extensions and improvements, it is expedient that the Council be empowered to raise by way of loan a sum not exceeding 2,700 pounds:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Council may, for the purpose of meeting the cost of making the said extensions and improvements to the Levin Municipal Abattoir, borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of 2,700 pounds, by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special order and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act.

(2) The Council may, out of the proceeds of the loan, refund to its District Fund Account, for the credit of its Abattoir Revenue Account, the sum of 2,522 pounds 4 shillings and 7 pence, advanced therefrom to provide for the cost of making extensions and improvements to the Levin Municipal Abattoir.

The Hamilton City Council is hereby authorised and empowered to erect a clock-tower and clock on the junction of Victoria Street and Garden Place in the City of Hamilton, and for those purposes to expend such amount as may be required.

Whereas the Gisborne Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is desirous of obtaining authority to remit rates amounting to the sum of 49 pounds 17 shillings and 2 pence, being the rates levied by the Council for the year ending on 31 March 1948 and due and payable by the Gisborne and East Coast Young Men's Christian Association (Incorporated) in respect of that piece of land situated in the Borough of Gisborne, containing 1 rood and 36 perches, more or less, being Lot 1, Deposited Plan No 3003 of 6A Fitzherbert Street, in the Borough of Gisborne, and numbered 3228 on the District Valuation Roll for that Borough:

And whereas the Council has no legal authority to make the remission:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised to remit the sum of 49 pounds 17 shillings and 2 pence, being the total amount of the said rates, and to absolve the said Association and the said lands from liability in respect thereof.

Whereas the Lower Hutt City Council (in this section referred to as the City Council) and the Eastbourne Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Borough Council) entered into a deed of agreement dated 16 July 1947, of which a certified copy is deposited in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington under number IA 105/444, whereby the City Council agreed to supply and the Borough Council agreed to take a supply of water upon the terms and conditions therein set out:

And whereas it is desirable to validate the said deed of agreement:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Corporations Act 1933 or in any other Act, the City Council and the Borough Council shall be deemed to have been at all times authorised and empowered to enter into the said deed of agreement, which shall be binding on the parties thereto and shall for all purposes be effective according to its tenor.

The Waihi Borough Council is hereby authorised and empowered to pay the sum of 100 pounds as a compassionate allowance to the widow of the late William Miller Wallnutt, formerly Mayor of the Borough of Waihi.

Whereas by section 53 of the Local Legislation Act 1928 the Huntly Town Board (in this section referred to as the Board) was empowered to grant to the Huntly War Memorial Club (an unincorporated society of discharged soldiers at Huntly), in consideration of payment by the Club to the Board of funds raised for the purposes of providing a building for the accommodation of the Club, a licence in perpetuity to occupy in manner therein provided certain rooms in the Huntly Municipal Buildings:

And whereas the Huntly War Memorial Club duly paid to the Board the sum of 425 pounds 13 shillings and 9 pence:

And whereas the functions of the Huntly War Memorial Club are now exercised by the Huntly Returned Services' Association (in this section referred to as the Association) and the Town District of Huntly is now constituted as the Borough of Huntly:

And whereas, in consideration of the payment of 250 pounds by the Huntly Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) the Association is agreeable to the cancellation of the said licence:

And whereas it is expedient that the Council be empowered to make the said payment and that provision should be made for the cancellation of the said licence:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Council is hereby empowered to pay to the Association the sum of 250 pounds.

(2) On the payment by the Council to the Association of the said sum of 250 pounds the licence granted by section 53 of the Local Legislation Act 1928 shall be cancelled.

(3) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act, the special valuation roll prepared pursuant to section 4 of the Thames Borough Commissioner Amendment Act 1934 shall continue to be operative until the 31 March next following the date of the first revision of the ordinary valuation roll for the Borough of Thames which is made after 31 March 1947.

(2), (3) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Whereas the Whangarei Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is constituted as the Whangarei Milk Authority under the Milk Act 1944:

And whereas for the purpose of paying the purchase price of established milk vending businesses and the cost of providing necessary plant, the Council proposes to raise a special loan in exercise of the powers granted by section 60 of the Milk Act 1944 to be known as the Whangarei Borough Milk Loan 1947:

And whereas in anticipation of the sanction of the Local Government Loans Board being given to the raising of the said loan the Council has expended out of its General Account the sum of 2,860 pounds 11 shillings and 2 pence in the purchase of a milk vending business, the establishment of a milk token bank, and for certain preliminary expenses:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Council is hereby authorised to refund to its General Account from a special loan to be known as the Whangarei Borough Milk Loan 1947 all moneys, not exceeding the sum of 2,860 pounds 11 shillings and 2 pence already expended by it for the purpose of the purchase of the milk vending business of Hailes and Harris, of Whangarei, milk vendors, the establishment of a milk token bank, and certain preliminary expenses.

Whereas the Kamo Town Board (in this section referred to as the Board) was by Order in Council dated 23 January 1946, made pursuant to section 11 of the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926 and published in the Gazette of 31 January 1946, authorised to raise a loan of 12,000 pounds to be known as the Waterworks Loan 1945 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to certain terms and conditions:

And whereas one of the terms and conditions was that the Board should, before raising the loan, make provision for repayment by establishing a sinking fund:

And whereas the Board, pursuant to the said Order in Council, has raised the loan but has not made specific provision for a sinking fund as required by the said Order:

And whereas the Board has issued a series of 40 debentures numbered 1 to 40 inclusive, each for the sum of 414 pounds 19 shillings and 9 pence, being the half-yearly sum required to provide for the repayment of the loan with interest thereon at the rate of 3 pounds 7 shillings and 6 pence per centum per annum:

And whereas it is desirable to validate the action of the Board in raising the loan and securing the repayment thereof by the issue of the said debentures:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The action of the Board in raising the loan is hereby validated and the said moneys shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed and the securities given in respect thereof to have been lawfully issued and the said debentures shall have full force and effect according to their tenor.

The expenditure by the Auckland Harbour Board during the financial year ended on 30 September 1947 of the sum of 210 pounds 8 shillings and 6 pence, in connection with the holding of the 14th Harbours Conference in Auckland, and the entertainment of delegates thereto, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas all those lands comprising Allotments 22, 23, 24, 25, 74, and 75, Township of Sunshine, on the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 2087, and being all the land comprised in certificates of title, Volume 171, folio 215, and Volume 162, folio 159, Otago Registry, are vested in the Otago Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board):

And whereas the said lands were acquired by the Board for the purposes of harbour works, but part of the said lands are no longer required for those purposes and the Board is desirous of selling the same:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Board is hereby authorised to sell such part or parts of the said lands as the Board shall from time to time determine for such consideration as may be agreed upon and upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board shall decide, and the moneys received by the Board as the purchase price of any lands sold as aforesaid shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of section 20 of the Finance Act 1934.

The Auckland Harbour Board is hereby authorised to expend out of its Harbour Fund the sum of 110 pounds for the purpose of meeting expenditure incurred in conducting an exhibition of the Port of London Authority's wartime activities.

The Auckland Harbour Board is hereby authorised to expend from its Harbour Fund the sum of 100 pounds as a donation to the funds of the Public Relations Office of Auckland, Incorporated, to be used for the encouragement of tourist traffic to Auckland and the furtherance of the interests of Auckland and the Auckland Province generally.

Whereas by Order in Council made on 9 June 1943, consent was given to the raising by the Waitomo Electric Power Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of 10,000 pounds, to be known as the Reticulation Loan 1943 (in this section referred to as the loan), subject to the determinations as to borrowing and repayment set forth in the said Order in Council, one of those determinations being that no moneys should be borrowed after the expiration of 2 years from the date of the Order in Council:

And whereas the said period of 2 years expired on 9 June 1945:

And whereas on 5 August 1946 the Board borrowed, as part of the loan, the sum of 5,000 pounds:

And whereas it is desirable that the borrowing of the said sum of 5,000 pounds should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The action of the Board in borrowing the sum of 5,000 pounds as part of the loan after the expiration of the period specified in the said Order in Council is hereby validated, and the said sum of 5,000 pounds shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed.

Whereas by section 50 of the Local Legislation Act 1936, as extended by section 42 of the Local Legislation Act 1937, section 41 of the Local Legislation Act 1939, and section 28 of the Local Legislation Act 1942, the Mangapu Drainage Board (in this section referred to as the Board) was authorised to make and levy for certain years as set out in those sections, a general rate, not exceeding 3 pence in the pound, on the land classified in accordance with section 33 of the Land Drainage Act 1908 as “A” lands; a general rate, not exceeding 2 pence in the pound, on lands so classified as “B” lands; and a general rate, not exceeding 1 penny in the pound, on lands so classified as “C” lands:

And whereas the Board continued to levy rates on that basis for the years ended on 31 March 1946 and 31 March 1947 without authority:

And whereas it is expedient that the levying of the said rates for the years ended on 31 March 1946 and 31 March 1947 on that basis should be validated and that the Board should be empowered to continue to rate on that basis for a further period:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The general rates levied by the Board for the years ended on 31 March 1946 and on 31 March 1947 shall be deemed to have been lawfully made.

(2) The provisions of section 50 of the Local Legislation Act 1936, as extended by section 42 of the Local Legislation Act 1937, section 41 of the Local Legislation Act 1939, and section 28 of the Local Legislation Act 1942, shall be deemed to be further extended to authorise and to have authorised the Board to make and levy the general rates as set out in subsection (2) of section 50 of the Local Legislation Act 1936 for the years ending respectively on 31 March 1948, 31 March 1949, and 31 March 1950.

The expenditure by the Auckland Hospital Board during the financial year ending on 31 March 1948 in connection with the official opening of Middlemore Hospital, and amounting to the sum of 200 pounds, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully incurred.

Whereas by Order in Council made on 26 April 1944 (in this section referred to as the said Order in Council), consent was given to the raising by the Waiapu Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) of a loan of 20,000 pounds, to be known as Te Puia Hospital Building Loan 1944 (in this section referred to as the loan):

And whereas clause 6 of the said Order in Council provided that no moneys should be borrowed thereunder after the expiration of 2 years from the date of the said Order in Council:

And whereas the period of 2 years expired on 26 April 1946:

And whereas on 1 July 1946 the Board borrowed from the Bank of New Zealand, as part of the loan, the sum of 5,000 pounds:

And whereas it is desirable that the borrowing of the said sum of 5,000 pounds should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The action of the Board in borrowing the sum of 5,000 pounds, as part of the loan, after the expiration of the period specified in the said Order in Council, is hereby validated, and the said sum of 5,000 pounds shall be deemed to have been lawfully borrowed.

The payment by the Opotiki Hospital Board during the year ended on 31 March 1947, of the sum of 135 pounds 11 shillings and 8 pence, for the purpose of replacement of hospital staff personal effects lost by fire on 4 December 1946, is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

Whereas that piece of land containing 1 rood 9 perches and being Lot 27 of Block II of the Te Puru Township, and being part of the land included in certificate of title, Volume 458, folio 159, Auckland Registry (in this section referred to as the said land), is vested in the Waikato Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) in fee simple to be held in trust as a site for a public hospital:

And whereas the said land is not at present required as a site for a public hospital:

And whereas, by memorandum of lease dated 8 August 1947, the Board leased the said land to Mary Reidy, of Kawhia, nurse, for the term of her natural life at a nominal rental and subject to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions set forth in the said memorandum of lease:

And whereas the Board has no power to execute the said lease, but it is desirable that such power should be granted and that the said memorandum of lease should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The memorandum of lease dated 8 August 1947 made between the Board and the said Mary Reidy is hereby validated, and the District Land Registrar at Auckland is hereby authorised and directed to register the said memorandum of lease against the title to the said land.

(1) The Wellington Hospital Board is hereby authorised to expend moneys, not exceeding the sum of 250 pounds, out of its general revenues for the purposes of providing funds for the celebration and commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of a public hospital in the City of Wellington and the publication of a history of the Wellington Hospital and associated institutions, and to make grants to any person or persons for any such purposes.

(2) All payments and grants of money heretofore made by the Wellington Hospital Board for any of the purposes specified in subsection (1) are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made:

provided that the total expenditure under the authority of this section shall not exceed the sum of 250 pounds.

Whereas the Wanganui Harbour Board (in this section referred to as the Board) is possessed of an estate in fee simple in the land described in subsection (2):

And whereas the lands adjoining such land are held by the Wanganui City Council (in this section referred to as the Council) for the purposes of providing pleasure grounds, gardens, or other means of enjoyment or recreation:

And whereas the land owned by the Board has been let to the Council for the purpose of being used in conjunction with the adjoining lands and for the same purposes as those lands:

And whereas the Board and the Council desire that the said land should be vested in the Corporation of the City of Wanganui (in this section referred to as the Corporation) for an estate in fee simple for the said purposes:

And whereas the Board has no power to transfer the said land to the Corporation:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act, the Board is hereby empowered to transfer, without consideration, the land described in subsection (2) to the Corporation to be held by the Council for the purposes of providing pleasure grounds, gardens, or other means of recreation and enjoyment.

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

All that piece of land situate in the City of Wanganui, containing 2 roods 31 perches and eight-tenths of a perch, more or less, being part of Section 355 of the Left Bank of the Wanganui River, and being also part of Lot 3 on Deposited Plan 12357, bounded towards the east by Anzac Parade, towards the south by Lot 5, towards the west by other part of the said Lot 3, being accretion to the said Section 355, and towards the north by Lot 2, all on Deposited Plan 12357 aforesaid, being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 492, folio 248, Wellington Registry, the said piece of land being shown outlined in colour red on a plan marked MD 8633, deposited in the Office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

Whereas the land described in subsection (3) is vested in the Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School subject to the provisions of the Wellington College and Girls' High School Act 1887:

And whereas it is desirable that the said land should be vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington for the purpose of a public reserve, but the Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School have no power to dispose of the land for that purpose:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The vesting of the land described in subsection (3) in the Governors of the Wellington College and Girls' High School is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington as a public reserve, but otherwise freed and discharged from the trusts, reservations, and restrictions heretofore affecting the same.

(2) The District Land Registrar of the Land Registration District of Wellington is hereby authorised and directed to make such entries in the register books and to do all such things 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 that piece of land in the City of Wellington, containing by admeasurement 2 roods 3 perches, more or less, being part of Sections 606, 607, and 608, of the Town of Wellington, and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 464, folio 104, Wellington Registry, as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, Number SO 19821, and thereon coloured yellow.

Whereas the lands particularly described in subsection (8) are vested in the Trustees of the Oamaru Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute (in this section referred to as the Institute) pursuant to the Oamaru Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute Act 1905:

And whereas the principal activity of the Institute has been the conduct and maintenance of a library and reading room in the Town of Oamaru:

And whereas it now appears that the library and reading room would be more advantageously conducted by the Oamaru Borough Council on behalf of the Corporation of the Borough of Oamaru (in this section referred to as the Corporation):

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The lands of the Institute, being the lands particularly described in subsection (8), are hereby vested in the Corporation for an estate in fee simple, subject to all existing leases and tenancies affecting the said lands, and shall be held as public reserves for the purposes of a public library in the Borough of Oamaru.

(2) All the personal property of whatsoever nature, including all choses in action, and the benefit of all contracts and agreements and all rights and powers exercisable thereunder or pertaining thereto, belonging to the Institute are hereby vested in the Corporation free from all trusts and reservations heretofore affecting the same, and all debts and other liabilities lawfully incurred by the Institute and existing on the passing of this Act shall hereafter be debts and liabilities of the Corporation, and the said Council is hereby authorised and empowered to discharge the said debts and liabilities out of its ordinary revenues.

(3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Otago is hereby authorised and directed to make such entries in the register and to issue, on the application of the Corporation, such certificates of title as are necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

(4) The Institute is hereby dissolved.

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), the Corporation may sell the whole or any portion of the lands thirdly described in subsection (8) by public auction or by public tender.

(6) The net amount derived from any sale of the lands thirdly described in subsection (8) shall be used and applied by the Corporation for alterations and additions to the buildings erected on the lands firstly and secondly described in the said subsection (8).

(7) The Oamaru Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute Act 1905 and section 157 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies' Empowering Act 1922 are hereby repealed.

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

Firstly, all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, situate in the Town of Oamaru, being Section numbered 6, Block 95, and marked “Mechanics' Institute Reserve” on the map of the said town deposited in the Chief Surveyor's Office at Dunedin, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 65, folio 84, Otago Registry.

Secondly, all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, situate in the Town of Oamaru, being part of Block 95 of the said town, commencing at the north-east corner of Section 6 of the said Block and bearing from thence in a north-easterly direction along Thames Street for a distance of 100 links; thence at right angles in a north-westerly direction for a distance of 250 links; thence at right angles in a south-westerly direction for a distance of 100 links; thence in a south-easterly direction at right angles for a distance of 250 links, to the starting point; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 69, folio 89, Otago Registry.

Thirdly, all that parcel of land in the Otago Land District, containing 102 acres 1 rood thirty and eight-tenths perches, more or less, situate in the Oamaru Survey District, being Allotments numbered respectively 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, and 60 on the plan of the Ardgowan Estate (Subdivision Number 1), deposited in the Land Registry Office in Dunedin, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 64, folio 29, Otago Registry, the land in this certificate of title being subject to memorandum of lease registered Number 7248.

Whereas by agreements dated 23 June 1947 and 7 November 1947, made between the Corporation of the Borough of Te Puke (in this section referred to as the Corporation), of the one part, and the Tauranga Electric Power Board (in this section referred to as the Board), of the other part, copies of which agreements are recorded in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington as IA 105/447, the Corporation agreed to sell to the Board and the Board agreed to purchase the electricity supply undertaking of the Corporation at the purchase price and upon the terms therein set out:

And whereas it is provided in the said agreements that the purchase price and interest thereon shall be paid by the Board giving to the borough debentures for such amount of the purchase price as the Board may elect, and by payment of any balance in cash on the date (in this section referred to as the date of settlement) when the Board takes over the undertaking:

And whereas the debentures are to be for a term of 25 years or for such shorter term as may be approved by the Local Government Loans Board and to bear interest at the rate of 3 pounds 5 shillings per centum per annum payable half-yearly from the date of settlement:

And whereas it has been further agreed between the Corporation and the Board that the said debentures shall be for the sum of 14,000 pounds and shall be secured by a mortgage over the revenues to be derived from the Board's undertaking:

And whereas it is desirable that the terms of payment of the purchase price and interest thereon and the agreements between the Corporation and the Board should be validated:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Corporation and the Board shall be deemed to have been duly empowered to enter into the said agreements, which shall have effect and be binding according to the terms thereof.

(2) The Corporation is hereby empowered to accept the said securities and the Board is hereby empowered to give security to the Corporation for the sum of 14,000 pounds with interest thereon at the rate of 3 pounds 5 shillings per centum per annum payable half-yearly and for that purpose to give a charge over the revenues derived from the Board's undertaking and operations within the Borough of Te Puke.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions of section 76 of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925.

(4) The Board is hereby authorised to raise under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act, a special loan of 14,000 pounds for the purpose of carrying out its obligations under the said agreements.

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925, the Borough of Te Puke shall be deemed to be included in and form part of the Board's district.

Whereas by Order in Council dated 5 July 1944, and published in the Gazette on 13 July 1944, the Governor-General constituted the Clarence Rabbit District under Part 2 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928:

And whereas the Clarence Rabbit Board has ceased to function and has discharged its liabilities and disposed of all its assets and it is deemed desirable to abolish the said District and dissolve the said Board:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Clarence Rabbit District is hereby abolished and the Board thereof is hereby dissolved.

Whereas a fund has been set up in the Provincial District of Canterbury for the purpose of commemorating the valorous deeds of Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham, Victoria Cross and Bar, by providing, or assisting in the provision of, financial assistance for the higher education of sons of former New Zealand servicemen or servicewomen:

And whereas the said fund is to be administered by a Board of Trustees incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908 under the name of the C H Upham Scholarship Trust Board:

And whereas, for the purpose of assisting the said fund, the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council, constituted under Part 2 of the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations 1939, is desirous of making a grant of the sum of 1,000 pounds to the said Board, but has no legal authority to make the grant:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council is hereby authorised and empowered to make a grant of the sum of 1,000 pounds to the C H Upham Scholarship Trust Board.

Whereas the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit District was constituted by Order in Council made under the provisions of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 on 10 April 1946:

And whereas the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) has undertaken the destruction of rabbits within the said District:

And whereas the bank overdraft which the Board is permitted to raise by virtue of section 3 of the Local Bodies' Finance Act 1921–22, is inadequate to enable the Board to maintain the work of the destruction of rabbits pending the collection of its revenue from rates during the financial year ending on 31 March 1948:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The Board is hereby authorised and empowered to borrow by way of overdraft a sum not exceeding three-fourths of its estimated revenue for the current financial year, calculated upon a general rate of 8 pence per acre levied over the rateable property in the district of the Board.

Whereas the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit District was constituted by Order in Council made under the provisions of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 on 10 April 1946:

And whereas, pending the engagement of rabbiters by the Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) for the purpose of carrying out the destruction of rabbits in the said District, certain ratepayers, by arrangement with the Board, engaged rabbiters on the understanding that any expenditure incurred in the employment of the rabbiters would be refunded by the Board:

And whereas, in pursuance of the said arrangement, the Board is now desirous of refunding to the said ratepayers an amount not exceeding the sum of 600 pounds:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 80 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, the Board is hereby authorised to refund to the ratepayers concerned any sums expended by them towards the destruction of rabbits pursuant to the said arrangement, up to but not exceeding the sum of 600 pounds.

Whereas the Marlborough Coast Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) has erected 5 dwellinghouses for the use of employees of the Board:

And whereas the Board has paid out of its General Account the sum of 2,101 pounds, being the cost of the said buildings and improvements:

And whereas, in order to reimburse the Board's General Account part of the amount expended, it is expedient that the Board be empowered to raise, by way of special loan, a sum not exceeding 1,000 pounds:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Board is hereby authorised to borrow, for the purpose of meeting in part the cost of the erection of 5 dwellinghouses, an amount not exceeding the sum of 1,000 pounds by way of special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special resolution and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act:

provided that the Board shall adopt the procedure laid down in section 88 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 and shall comply with all the provisions of that section.

(2) The Board is hereby authorised to pay the proceeds of the loan into its General Account in part repayment of the moneys advanced thereout for the purpose of erecting the said dwellinghouses.

Whereas the Wairarapa East Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) failed to take the steps prescribed by sections 39 to 44 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 in respect of the general election of members of the Board required to be held in November 1947:

And whereas for the purposes of the said election the Board adopted and used the ratepayers' list and roll of electors for its district in force before 1 January 1947:

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the rates made and levied or which the Board purported to make and levy in respect of the period commenced on 1 April 1946 and ended on 31 March 1947, and in respect of the period commenced on 1 April 1947 and ending on 31 March 1948:

And whereas it is deemed advisable to continue in force the ratepayers' list and roll of electors adopted and used by the Board for the purposes of the said election until a new ratepayers' list and roll of electors for the district of the Board is made and comes into force pursuant to the provisions of the said Act and to validate the said ratepayers' list, the said election, and the said rates:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The ratepayers' list and roll of electors made by the Board and in force before 1 January 1947 shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928 but subject to amendment pursuant to section 45 of that Act, continue in force as the ratepayers' list and roll of electors for the Wairarapa East Rabbit District until a new list and roll is made and comes into force in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and shall be deemed to be valid for all purposes as if the Board had, in the year 1947, made a new ratepayers' list and roll of electors by taking the steps prescribed by sections 39 to 44 of the said Act.

(2) The general election held by the Board in November 1947 is hereby declared to be valid, and the members declared to be elected at the said election shall be deemed to have been duly elected.

(3) The rates made and levied, or which the Board purported to make and levy, for the said period ended on 31 March 1947, shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid from 1 May 1946, the date when the Board purported to make and levy the same.

(4) The rates made and levied, or which the Board purported to make and levy, for the said period ending on 31 March 1948, shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid from 18 July 1947, the date when the Board purported to make and levy the same.

Whereas the Tokarahi Rabbit Board (in this section referred to as the Board) has acquired a piece of land and erected a dwellinghouse and effected improvements thereon for the use of employees of the Board at a total cost of 414 pounds which amount was paid out of its General Account:

And whereas in order to reimburse the Board's General Account part of the sum expended as aforesaid it is expedient that the Board be empowered to raise by way of special loan an amount not exceeding the sum of 400 pounds:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1) The Board is hereby authorised to borrow an amount not exceeding the sum of 400 pounds by way of special loan under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special resolution and without taking the steps prescribed by sections 9 to 13 of that Act.

(2) The Board may pay the proceeds of the loan into its General Account in part repayment of the moneys advanced thereout for the purposes aforesaid.