31 MARCH
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
585

Validating Valuation List Made by Edendale Town Board

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 28th day of March 1955

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the triennial valuation list for the Town District of Edendale was prepared and transmitted to the Edendale Town Board (hereinafter referred to as the said Board) pursuant to section 8 of the Rating Act 1925:

And whereas the said Board caused the valuation list so sent to it to be deposited for public inspection and publicly notified that such list was open for inspection and of the place where it was deposited and of the manner in which objections thereto should be made:

And whereas by reason of circumstances beyond the control of the said Board the public notification aforesaid was not published on one occasion within the period specified by section 15 of the said Act:

And whereas it is desirable to validate the proceedings in connection with the said valuation list:

Now, therefore, pursuant to section 99 of the said Act, and so that the intent and purpose of the said Act may have effect, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby declares that the proceedings in connection with the said valuation list shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the said Board had once in each week during the prescribed period given the public notification required by the said section 15 of the said Act; and accordingly declares that the said valuation list shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 103/13/10)

Abolishing Orapiu Road District, Altering Boundaries and Name of Western Waiheke Road District, and Reconstituting Western Waiheke Secondary Urban Fire District

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 28th day of March 1955

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 15 of the Local Government Commission Act 1953, the Western Waiheke Road Board requested the Local Government Commission to consider a proposal that a re-organization scheme should be prepared in respect of Waiheke Island:

And whereas the Local Government Commission has considered the said proposal and has approved as final a scheme bearing date the 9th day of December 1954, providing, firstly, for the abolition of the Orapiu Road District, and, secondly, for the alteration of the boundaries of the Western Waiheke Road District to include the whole of Waiheke Island and, thirdly, for the abolition of the Western Waiheke Secondary Urban Fire District and the constitution of the area comprising the existing Western Waiheke Road District as a secondary urban fire district:

And whereas it is deemed expedient to give effect to the final scheme as hereinafter appearing, and to make supplementary provision incidental thereto:

Now, therefore, pursuant to the Local Government Commission Act 1953, and section 22 of the Local Legislation Act 1946, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby orders and declares:

1. That from the 31st day of March 1955 the Orapiu Road District shall be abolished and the Orapiu Road Board shall be dissolved.

2. (a) That as on and from the 1st day of April 1955 the area described in the First Schedule hereto shall be included in the Western Waiheke Road District.

(b) That the name of the Western Waiheke Road District as so altered shall be changed to the Waiheke Road District.

(c) That the boundaries of the Waiheke Road District shall be those described in the Second Schedule hereto.

3. (a) That a general election of all the members of the Board of the Waiheke Road District shall be held on Saturday, the 21st day of May 1955.

(b) That Graham Reid Brabant, National Mutual Life Buildings, 41 Shortland Street, Auckland C.1, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the said general election.

(c) That the said Graham Reid Brabant shall be the Clerk and the person to prepare the roll of electors for the purpose of the said general election.

(d) That the first meeting of the Board of the Waiheke Road District, elected as aforesaid, shall be held on Friday, the 3rd day of June 1955, at 10.15 a.m., at the Board’s Office, National Mutual Life Buildings, 41 Shortland Street, Auckland C.1.

4. That all property and the control of any land or thing vested at the 31st March 1955 in the Corporation or Board of the Orapiu Road District shall from that date be vested in the Corporation and the Board respectively of the Waiheke Road District, and all liabilities and engagements of the Corporation of the Orapiu Road District, and all proceedings pending by or against the said Corporation, shall respectively be liabilities and engagements of, and proceedings to be carried on by, or against, the Corporation of the Waiheke Road District.

5. That, subject as otherwise provided herein, the abolition of the Orapiu Road District and the alteration of boundaries of the Waiheke Road District shall be deemed to have been effected under the Road Boards Act 1908 and section 22 of the Local Legislation Act 1946.

6. (a) That from the 31st day of March 1955 the Western Waiheke Secondary Urban Fire District shall be abolished.

(b) That on the 1st day of April 1955 the urban area described in the Third Schedule hereto shall be constituted a secondary urban fire district by the name of Western Waiheke Secondary Urban Fire District.

(c) That, subject as otherwise provided herein, the constitution of the Western Waiheke Secondary Urban Fire District shall be deemed to have been effected under the Fire Services Act 1949.

FIRST SCHEDULE

AREA INCLUDED IN THE WESTERN WAIHEKE ROAD DISTRICT

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, situated on Waiheke Island, bounded on the north, east, and south generally by the line of mean high-water mark, and on the north-west generally by the Western Waiheke Road District, as described in Gazette, 19 June 1947, Vol. II, page 749.

SECOND SCHEDULE

BOUNDARIES OF WAIHEKE ROAD DISTRICT

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District known as Waiheke Island.

THIRD SCHEDULE

WESTERN WAIHEKE SECONDARY URBAN FIRE DISTRICT

ALL that area of approximately 6,600 acres in the North Auckland Land District, situated on Waiheke Island, bounded by a line commencing at a point in Block III, Waiheke Survey District, on the line of mean high water on the eastern shores of Onetangi Bay, being the north-western corner of Lot 22, as shown on the plan numbered 11657, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, being part of Allotment 41 of the Parish of Waiheke, and running easterly along the northern boundary of the said Lot 22, and southerly along the western boundary of Lot 1, as shown on the plan numbered 28342, deposited as aforesaid, being part of Allotment 97 of the said Parish of Waiheke, to and along the western side of a public road, to and along the eastern boundary of Lot 23, as shown on the said plan numbered 11657, being parts of Allotments 41 and 70 of the said Parish of Waiheke, to and along the northern and western boundaries of the northern portion of Allotment 64 of the Parish of Waiheke aforesaid, to and along the northern boundary of Allotment 71 of the said Parish of Waiheke, and a right line being that boundary produced across a public road, to and along the western side of that road, to and along the western boundary of the southern portion of Allotment 64 of the said Parish of Waiheke to the northern boundary of Lot 4, as shown on the plan numbered 24387, deposited as aforesaid, being part of Awa Awa Roa Block; thence westerly generally along the northern boundary of the said Lot 4 and the eastern and north-western boundaries of part of Whakanewha Block, to and along the north-eastern boundary of Rangihoua No.1 Block, as shown on the plan numbered 1721, deposited as aforesaid, to the line of mean high water on the shores of Putiki Bay; thence generally westerly, northerly, and easterly along the line of mean high water of the southern, western, and northern shores of Waiheke Island aforesaid, to the point of commencement.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 103/143)

Constituting Days Bay and Point Howard Secondary Urban Fire Districts as Urban Fire Districts

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 28th day of March 1955

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. S. G. HOLLAND PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the urban areas of Days Bay and Point Howard, situated in the County of Hutt, are secondary urban fire districts under the Fire Services Act 1949:

And whereas, pursuant to section 18 of the said Act, the Hutt County Council requested that the said secondary urban fire districts be constituted urban fire districts:

And whereas, pursuant to the said section 18, the Fire Service Council has certified that the appropriate standards for an urban fire district have been complied with in respect of each of the said districts: