866 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 40

Boundaries of Inner Area of Auckland Metropolitan Drainage District and Representation on Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board Altered

COBHAM, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington this 26th day of June 1958

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.

ORDER

1. (1) The boundaries of the Inner Area of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage District are hereby altered so as to include therein the Borough of New Lynn as described in Gazette 1939, page 1728.

(2) For the purpose of the assessment of the contributions of the contributing authorities made pursuant to section 59 of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944, the New Lynn Borough Council shall be deemed to have been a contributing authority as on and from the 1st day of April 1958.

2. (1) On and from the 1st day of April 1959 the boundaries of the Inner Area of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage District are hereby altered so as to include therein the Borough of Glen Eden as described in Gazette 1953, page 498, the Borough of Henderson as described in Gazette 1957, page 1294, the Borough of Manurewa as described in Gazette 1954, page 2081, and the areas described in the First Schedule hereto.

(2) In the financial year commencing on the said 1st day of April 1959, and in each succeeding financial year until the 1st day of April following the date on which the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board gives notification in writing to the Manurewa Borough Council that the sewerage reticulation system of the Borough of Manurewa may be connected to the main sewerage system of the Board, the Council shall not be liable for an annual assessment under section 59 of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944, but instead shall be liable for the payment in each such financial year of *a sum equivalent to 66⅔ per cent of the amount that the assessment of the Council would be in that year if that assessment was calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 60 of that Act, and that sum shall for the purposes of that Act be deemed to be the Council’s assessment in that year.

(3) The Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board shall bear the full cost of the construction and maintenance of any temporary treatment works established for use in connection with the sewerage reticulation system of the Borough of Manurewa.

3. (1) On and from the 1st day of April 1961 the boundaries of the Inner Area of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage District are hereby altered so as to include therein the Borough of Howick as described in Gazette 1952, page 1363, and the areas described in the Second Schedule hereto.

(2) The following provisions shall apply with respect to the Borough of Howick, namely:

(a) In the financial year commencing on the said 1st day of April 1961, and in each succeeding financial year until the 1st day of April following the date on which the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board gives notification in writing to the Howick Borough Council that temporary treatment works are available for use in connection with the sewerage reticulation system of the Borough of Howick, the Council shall not be liable for an annual assessment under section 59 of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944, but instead shall be liable to pay to the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board in each such financial year the sum of £5,000, and that sum shall for the purposes of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944 be deemed to be the Council’s assessment in that year:

(b) Commencing on the 1st day of April following the date on which temporary treatment works are available for use by the residents of the Borough of Howick, and in each succeeding financial year until the 1st day of April following the date on which the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board gives notification in writing to the Howick Borough Council that the sewerage reticulation system of the Borough of Howick may be connected to the main sewerage system of the Board, the Council shall not be liable for an annual assessment under section 59 of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944, but instead shall be liable for the payment in each such financial year of a sum equivalent to 66⅔ per cent of the amount that the assessment of the Council would be in that year if that assessment was calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 60 of that Act, and that sum shall for the purposes of that Act be deemed to be the Council’s assessment in that year:

(c) The Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board shall bear the full cost of the construction and maintenance of any temporary treatment works established for use in connection with the sewerage reticulation system of the Borough of Howick.

(3) The following provisions shall apply with respect to the areas described in the Second Schedule hereto, namely:

(a) In the financial year commencing on the 1st day of April 1961, and in each succeeding financial year until the 1st day of April following the date on which the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board gives notification in writing to the Manukau County Council that the sewerage reticulation system or systems of those areas may be connected to the main sewerage system of the Board, the Council shall not be liable for an annual assessment under section 59 of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944 in respect of those areas, but instead shall be liable for the payment in each such financial year of a sum equivalent to 66⅔ per cent of the amount that the assessment of the Council would be in respect of those areas in that year if that assessment was calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 60 of that Act, and that sum shall for the purposes of that Act be deemed to be the Council’s assessment in respect of those areas in that year:

(b) The Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board shall bear the full cost of the construction and maintenance of any temporary treatment works established for use in connection with the sewerage reticulation system or systems of those areas.

4. (1) Until the members elected at the election of members of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board to be held in the month of January in the year 1960 come into office, the number of members of the Board is hereby increased from fifteen to seventeen, and the additional members shall be elected as follows:

(a) One member by the Howick and Manurewa Borough Councils and the Manukau County Council:

(b) One member by the Glen Eden, Henderson, and New Lynn Borough Councils and the Waitemata County Council.

(2) The elections of the two additional members of the Board shall be held in the month of July 1958, and the provisions of section 7 of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to those elections accordingly.

(3) For the purpose of the election of members of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board to be held in the month of January in the year 1960, and for the purposes of each succeeding triennial election, the number of members of the Board shall be fifteen, who shall be elected as follows:

Six members by the Auckland City Council
Four members by the Mount Eden, Mount Albert, Mount Roskill, and Onehunga Borough Councils
One member by the Newmarket and One Tree Hill Borough Councils
One member by the Ellerslie and Mount Wellington Borough Councils
One member by the Otahuhu and Papatoetoe Borough Councils
One member by the Howick and Manurewa Borough Councils and the Manukau County Council
One member by the Henderson, Glen Eden, and New Lynn Borough Councils and the Waitemata County Council.

(4) Subject to the modifications made by subclause (3) of this clause, the provisions of section 7 of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act 1944 shall apply with respect to every election referred to in that subclause.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

Clause 2 (1)

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District in Block V, Otahuhu Survey District, bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the north-western boundary of Lot 1, Deeds Plan 172, with the line of mean high-water spring tide of the shores of the Manukau Harbour, and proceeding generally easterly along those shores to and generally southerly up