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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928.

Conferring extended Powers on North Shore Boroughs (Auckland) Water-supply Board.

[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section forty-three of the North Shore Boroughs (Auckland) Water-supply Act, 1924 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that for the purposes of conserving the supply of water in Lake Takapuna, regulating the output of water from the lake, maintaining the purity of the water-supply from the lake, and otherwise for the purposes of the said Act, the North Shore Boroughs (Auckland) Water Board, constituted under the said Act, shall, from the date of this Proclamation, have the following powers in addition to the powers conferred upon the said Board by the said Act:—

I. The said Board shall, within the water-supply district constituted by the said Act, have the powers conferred on a local authority within its district by section 57 and subsection (2) of section 62 of the Health Act, 1920.

II. The said Board shall have power to make, subject to the provisions of the said Act, by-laws for all or any of the following matters:—

(1) Licensing, regulating, inspecting, and controlling the withdrawal of water from Lake Takapuna for public purposes, and prohibiting the withdrawal of water from the lake for public purposes excepting under and pursuant to the terms and provisions of a license from the Board.

(2) Regulating and restricting the quantity of water to be withdrawn from the lake from time to time by licensees for public purposes.

(3) Licensing, regulating, restricting, or prohibiting the withdrawal of water from the lake for purposes other than public purposes and domestic purposes.

(4) Licensing, regulating, inspecting, and controlling the withdrawal of water from the lake by owners or occupiers of land contiguous to the shore thereof for domestic or other use, and prohibiting the withdrawal of water for any such use excepting under and pursuant to the terms and provisions of a license from the Board, and imposing on licensees a scale of charges for such water to be imposed in manner provided by section 24 of the said Act.

(5) Regulating, controlling, or prohibiting the use of water drawn from the lake for the watering of gardens, lawns, and streets.

(6) Prescribing the terms and conditions of licenses.

(7) Concerning the provision, inspection, and maintenance of meters, governors, and waterworks, and preventing waste of water through defective mains, pipes, meters, and waterworks.

(8) Prohibiting bathing and the washing of any animal, house linen, clothing, or thing in the lake.

(9) Prohibiting owners and persons having custody or control of animals of specified species from causing or permitting the same to wade, swim, or be in the water of the lake.

III. The said Board shall have power to make, subject to the provisions of the said Act, by-laws for all or any of the matters for which by-laws may be made by a local authority under the provisions of clauses (a), (e), (g), (h), (k), (l), (m), (r), and (w) of subsection (1) of section 67 of the Health Act, 1920, to the same extent as if the said Board were a local authority within the meaning of that Act:

Provided always that by-laws made under the powers conferred by this clause shall be made so as to relate to some defined district which shall not extend farther than the catchwater area surrounding Lake Takapuna or some defined portion or portions thereof:

Provided also that the power to make by-laws conferred by this clause shall be exercisable only for the purposes of the protection from pollution or from risk of pollution of the water-supply derived from Lake Takapuna and of maintaining the purity of the water-supply of the said lake.

IV. The provisions of section 42 of the said Act (including the provisions as to penalties therein contained) and the provisions of section 46 of the said Act (so far as applicable) shall extend and apply to all by-laws made under the powers hereby conferred.

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