[AS REPORTED FROM THE LANDS COMMITTEE.] House of Re'preseutives, 3rd November, 1920. ' Hon. Mr. Guthrie. RESERVES AND OTHER LANDS DISPOSAL AND PUBLIC BODIES EMPOWERING. ANALYSIS. Title. 20. Validating loan of £2,400 raised by Pukekohe 1. Short Title. B,orough Council without lawful authority. 2. Resumption of Section 27, Block X, Waipoua 21. Closing portion of road in Drury Survey Dis- Survey District, for forestry purposes re- trict, and authorizing disposal thereof. voked, and a lease in perpetuity revived. 22. Repeal. 3. Certain land in North Auckland Land Dis- 23. Authorizing Hamilton Borough Council to trict reserved as a site for a post-office. lease certain land to Waikato Winter Show 4. Hen and Chicken Islands reserved for scenic Association. , purposes. 24. Authorizing Whakatane Harbour Board to 5. Cancelling setting-apart for National Endow- transfer certain land to Whakatane County ment of certain lands in North Auckland Council. Land District, and setting apart other lands. 25. Vesting certain land in Whakatane Harbour 6. Authorizing sale of public hall in Waipu, Board as endowment. North Auckland Land District, and pay- 26. Closing part of road, and incorporating the ment of proceeds to trustees of Waipu same in Taumatatotara No. 11·, in the Auck- Coronation Hall. land Land District. 7. Vesting certain land in Corporation of 27. Changing purpose of Allotment 89, Parish of County of Waitemata. Onewhero, from endowment for primary 8. Authorizing acceptance of surrender of lease education to a recreation reserve, and re- of Sections 28 and 76, Parish of Paremo- serving Section 5, Block XI, Rotoma Sur. remo, and disposal of certain parts thereof. vey District, as an endowment for primary 9. Authorizing Avondale Road Board to acquire education. land for a quarry. 28. Authorizing Gisborne Borough Council to 10. Modification of conditions governing use of make additional payment to certain con- Auckland Domain for the purpose of Davis tractors. Cup Lawn Tennis Competitions. 29. Authorizing Mangapapa Town Board to raise 11. Rates in portion of City of Auckland, formerly a loan to pdy off overdraft. Borough of Grey Lynn, may be levied upon 30. Authorizins, Wairoa H&rbour Board to borrow annual value. £15,000. 12. Making operative agreement set out in Third 31. Commission of Inquiry to adjust boundaries Schedule to Auckland City Parkss Improve- of Wairoa, Napier, Gisborne, and Whaka- ment and Empowering Act, 1916. tane Harbour Districts. 13. Authorizing transfer to Auckland City Council 32, Validating payment by Napier Borough Gun- of land vested in Crown for purposes ot a oil of allowance to widow of late Town Clerk. post-office. 33. Vesting old course of part of Tutaekuri River 14. Lands in Auckland Land District reserved for in certain persons. certain purposes under will of James Carl- 34. Hastings Borough Council authorized to take ton Hill (deceased) declared to be a public a poll of ratepayers on a proposal to pur- domain. chase on terms certain lands for purposes 15, Authorizing Onehunga Borough Council to of a recreation-ground. borrow £3,000, and to lay out Onehunga 35. Authorizing Waipawa Borough Council to ac- Domain as war memorial. quire certain land for cemetery purposes. 16, Manukau County Council to vest in trustees 36. Authorizing Taranaki Land Board to accept the management of public hall reserved for surrenders of leases of education reserves use of inhabitants of Mangere Riding. held by Taranaki Hospital and Charitable 17. Certain provisions of Rating Act, 1908, applied Aid Board, and to grant new lease thereof. to Road Boards in Waiheke Island. 37. Authorizing Stratford Borough Council to 18. Cancelling reservation over East Tamaki Do. raise loan of £5000 for improving Stratford main. Domain. 19. Validating loan of £1,600 raised by East 38. Authorizing Taranaki Church of England Trust Tamaki Road Board without.lawful autho- Board and St. Mary's Parochial Trust Board rity. to dispose of certain lands. No. 1 32-2. 55 Reserues ad other Lands Disposal 0,1(% Public Bodies Empowering. 39. Changing purpose of certain land in Taranaki 60. Authorizing license as site for tramway over Land District from reserve for police pur· portion of Reserve 1189, Westland Land poses to historic reserve. District. 40. Authorizing change of purpose of part of See- 61. Vesting certain land in Corporation of tion 23, Block XIV, Ohura Survey District, Borough of Rangiora, from a public park to a site for a public hall. 62. Changing purpose of certain land at Burnham, 41. Cancelling reservations over certain lands in in Canterbury Land District, from a site for Wellington Land District, and adding the an orphanage to an historic reserve. same to Tongariro National Park. 63. Validating loan of £7,000 raised by Waimairi 42. Authorizing Taihape Borough Council to pay County Council without lawful authority'. interest on loan of £1,000 at rate of 5* per 64. Change of purpose of Reserve 289, Canterbury cent. Land District, from a powder-magazine re- 43. Authorizing Taihape Borough Council to pay serve to a plantation teserve. compensation for improvements to outgoing 65. Authorizing Akaroa High School Board to lessee of certain land. establish hostels for pupils. 44. Gonville and Castlecliff Town Boards autho- 66. Amalgamating Temuka and 'Arowhenua rized to fix water charges according to ·quan- Domains; to be known as Temuka Domain. tity used. 67. Authorizing Mount Somers Domain Board to 45. Amalgamating certain land with Kimbolton erect a public hall. Domain, Wellington Land District. 68. Authorizing Dunedin Savings-bank Trustees 46. Authorizing Feilding Borough Council to raise to make a donation towards upkeep of special loan for certain purposes. Children's Hospital at Caversham. 47. Authorizing exchange of primary education 69. Applying certain provision of Health Act, reserve for land vested in Corporation of 1920, to Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Borough of Palmerston North. Board. 48. Foxton Borough Council authorized to con- 70. Otago Harbour Board authorized to erect tribute towards acquisition by Crown of automatic light on a scenic reserve. certain land. 71. Vesting certain land in Township of Shiel 49. Local authorities in Nelson Provincial District Hill in Otago Education Board. may contribute to funds of Bulter Progress 72. Authorizing Alexandra Borough Council to League (Incorporated). transfer land to Otago Education Board as 50. Vesting in Nelson Harbour Board as an a site for a technical school. endowment certainland in the City of 73. Changing purpose of reserves vested in Queens- Nelson. town Borough Council. 51. Authorizing issue to Buller County Council of 74. Special provision for use of certain loans raised certificate of title to land in Town of Miller- by Invercargill Borough Council. ton reserved for purposes of 4 drill-shed. 75. Validating loan of £1,500,000 raised by South- 52. Excluding certain land from Reefton Domain, land Electric-power Board. and vesting such land in Corporation of 76. Authorizing issue to Southland Boys' and Inangahua County for recreation purposes. Girls' High Schools Board of certificate of 53. Vesting certain land in the Spring Creek Road title in respect of certain land. Board as an endowment. 77. Vesting certain land in Riverton Harbour 54. Closing and sale of portion of Tinline Road, Board. Marlborough Land District. 78. Closing portion of river-bank road along 55. Authorizing Kaikoura Domain Board to ex- Waiau River, Southland Land District, pend certain moneys on Kaikoura Domain. and authorizing disposal thereof. 56. Closing road along Conway River, Marl- 79. Authorizing Harbour and Hospital Boards to borough Land District, and authorizing contribute to funds of Town-planning disposal thereof. Associations. 57. Local authorities in Westland Provincial Dis- 80. Reservation over lands described in First trict may contribute to funds of Canterbury Schedule cancelled, and lands declared Progress League (Incorporated) Crown lands. 58. Vesting certain lands in Grey Hospital and 81. Authorizing transfer of Veterans' Home, Charitable Aid Board, in trust, as site for a Auckland, to Auckland Provincial Patri- hospital. M otic and War Relief Association (Incor- 59. Making additional provision for administra- porated). tion of Brunner Mine Disaster Relief Fund. Schedules. Reserves and other 1.,muls Disposal and Public Bodies 3 Empolvering. 243 A BILL INTITULED AN ACT to provide for the Exchange, Sale, Reservation, and other ritle. Disposition of certain Reserves, Crown Lands, Endowments, and other Lands, to validate certain Transactions, and to confer certain 5 Powers on certain Public Bodies. BE IT ENACTE I) by the Genera,1 Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. This Act may be cited as the Reserves and other Lands Short Title. 10 Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1920. 2. Whereas by Proclamation published in the Gazette of the Resumption of twenty-eighth day of January, nineteen hundred and nineteen, Sec- Section 27, Block X Waipoua Survey tion 27, Block X, Waipoua Survey District, containing three hundred District, for forestry and eighty-six acres, was resumed for forestry purposes under section purposesand a revoked,lease in 15 one hundred and forty-four of the Land Act, 1908 : And whereas the perpetuity revived said land immediately prior to resumption was held by Robert Mattocks under a lease in perpetuity, registered in Volume 124, folio 224, Auckland Land Registry Office, as No. 1722 : And whereas the said land is not now required for forestry purposes, and it is deemed expedient to 20 revoke the said Proclamation an.d to revive tile aforesaid lease ifi perpetuity : Be it therefore enacted as follows :- (1.) The aforesaid Proclaniation is hereby revoked. (2.) The aforesaid lease in perpetuity and all mortgages and encum- brances (if any) affecting the same are hereby revived, and shall be 25 deemed to have continued to operate as if the land comprised in the said lease had not been resumed as aforesaid.