MAY 1] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 527

PRIVATE BILL

In the matter of a Private Bill intituled the “Waerenga-a-hika Trust Act, 1947.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waerenga-a-hika Trust Board, incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1908, and having its office at Gisborne, intends to apply to Parliament at its next ensuing session for leave to bring in a Private Bill, the short title of which is the “Waerenga-a-hika Trust Act, 1947.”

The objects of the Bill are to incorporate a new Board to hold and have vested in it the property, including the land known as Lots 1 to 51, both inclusive, 41A, and 46A on a plan deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Gisborne under No. 1538, part of the Waerenga-a-hika Block (School Estate) held by the Waerenga-a-hika Trust Board, incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1908; to dissolve the last-mentioned Board and to vary the trusts upon which that property is held by empowering the new Board—

(i) To apply £4,600 out of the accumulations of income of the Board to the Endowment Fund of the Turanga Pastorate, and, after that has been done and after setting aside reserves for the depreciation of its property and for the stabilization of its future income, to apply the whole or any part of the ultimate remainder of those accumulations of income to augmenting the annual income in any financial year or years.

(ii) To appropriate one-half of its net income for each financial year to a fund to be called the “Waerenga-a-hika Scholarship Fund,” which shall be available only for the purposes set out in subclauses (a) and (b) hereunder, and to apply the other half of its net income in each year towards all the following purposes, viz. :

(a) The provision of scholarships for the post-primary education of children being Maoris or descendants of Maoris, but so that preference is given firstly to boys and girls of the Whanau-a-Taupara section of the Mahaki Tribe and secondly to boys and girls of other sections of that tribe.

(b) The provision of books, clothing, and other equipment for the holders of such scholarships; and the making of grants for any such purpose and generally for the purpose of assisting the parents or guardians of any holders of such scholarships to provide for their education.

(c) The provision of books, clothing, and other equipment for any other such children; and the making of grants for any such purpose and generally for the purpose of assisting the parents or guardians of any such children to provide for their education.

(d) The provision, furnishing, maintenance, and management of residential accommodation for any such children in relation to their education.

(e) The making of grants to the governing bodies of any schools at which any such scholarships are tenable or at which any such children are educated.

(f) All reasonable costs and expenses incurred in the preparation and passing of this Bill or any Bill amending or in substitution of this Bill.

(iii) To grant leases to the Education Board of the District of Hawke’s Bay without complying with section 8 of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

(iv) With the consent of the Standing Committee of the Diocesan Trusts Board of the Diocese of Waiapu to sell lands vested in the Board and to dispose of the Chapel building on the Board’s land, and to invest money in the purchase of land.

(v) To appoint and employ and remove a secretary and other officers and to pay salaries and allowances to them.

(vi) To invest moneys in investments authorized by law.

(vii) To refund to Board members moneys reasonably expended by them in respect of their attendance at meetings of the Board or in transacting the business of the Board.

The Bill also empowers the Board to lease lands vested in it, for which purpose the Board shall be deemed to be a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

Copies of the proposed Bill will be deposited in the Private Bills Office at Wellington not earlier than thirty days before and not later than fourteen days after the commencement of the next ensuing session.

Dated this 3rd day of April, 1947.

G. W. WILLOCK,
Solicitor for the Promoter of the Bill.

5 Gladstone Road, Gisborne.

55

OTAMATEA COUNTY COUNCIL

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1928, and of the Counties Act, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, that the Otamatea County Council proposes to take the pieces of road described in the Schedule hereto, and to apply for an Order in Council consenting to the taking of the said roads.

Notice is hereby further given that a plan of the roads so proposed to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council situate at Paparoa and is open for inspection (without fee) during ordinary office hours.

All persons having any objection to the proposal are required to lodge their objections in writing at the office of the Council on or before Wednesday, the 4th day of June, 1947, being a date not less than forty days after the first publication hereof.

D

If no objections are received before the date specified the Council will forthwith proceed under the enabling provisions of the said Act to complete the taking of the said road.

Dated at Paparoa, this 1st day of April, 1947.

THE SCHEDULE

The above parcels of land being situate in the Parish of Omaru, Matakoe Survey District, in the County of Otamatea, coloured as above, and shown on Survey Office plan No. 31339.

61

E. G. AICKIN, County Clerk.

WAIROA BOROUGH COUNCIL

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND

In the matter of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, and in the matter of the Public Works Act, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Wairoa Borough Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the construction of a drain from Ruataniwha Road to the Wairoa River—and for the purposes of such work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the office of the Wairoa Borough Council, situate in Coronation Square, Wairoa, and is open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Town Clerk at the Wairoa Borough Council.

SCHEDULE

Dated at Wairoa, this 21st day of April, 1947.

L. A. BEST, Town Clerk.

77

HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Horowhenua County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

“That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of principal, interest, and other charges on the Workers’ Dwellings Loan, 1946, of £12,000, authorized to be raised by the Horowhenua County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of erecting dwellings for occupation by workers employed or resident in the county, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one twenty-second of a penny (1/22d.) in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all the rateable property in the County of Horowhenua; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan and be payable yearly on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-five (25) years or until the loan is fully paid off.”

We certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a resolution passed at a duly called and constituted meeting of the Horowhenua County Council held on the 11th day of April, 1947.

G. A. MONK, Chairman.

F. H. HUDSON, Clerk.

78