No. 81

1791

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST 1974

Declaring Land in Southland Land District, Vested in the Southland Education Board as a Site for a School, to be Vested in Her Majesty the Queen

DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION

PURSUANT to subsection (6) of section 5 of the Education Lands Act 1949, I, Sir Edward Denis Blundell, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto, being an area vested in the Southland Education Board as a site for a school, shall be vested in Her Majesty the Queen, freed and discharged from every educational trust affecting the same, but subject to all leases, encumbrances, liens, or easements affecting the same at the date hereof.

SCHEDULE

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT—INVERCARGILL CITY

PART Lot 1, D.P. 4390, being part Section 36, Block I, Invercargill Hundred: area, 375 square metres, more or less (S.O. Plan 8604).

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 17th day of June 1974.

[L.S.]

A. J. FAULKNER, for Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/1043; D.O. 8/1/74)

Union of Geraldine County and Levels County

DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington this 26th day of August 1974

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Local Government Commission Act 1967, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.

ORDER

1. This order shall come into force on 1 September 1974.

2. The districts of the Counties of Geraldine and Levels shall be united to form one county under the name of the County of Strathallan (hereinafter called the “said county”).

3. The councils of the former counties of Geraldine and Levels shall be dissolved.

4. For the purpose of representation the said county shall, for a period of 12 years, be divided into divisions as follows:

(a) The Geraldine Division comprising the district of the former county of Geraldine.

(b) The Levels Division comprising the district of the former county of Levels.

5. Separate accounts shall be kept for the Geraldine and Levels Divisions as hereinbefore defined for such period of not less than 3 nor more than 10 years, as the council of the said county may decide; and the provisions of section 110 of the Counties Act 1956 shall, as far as they are applicable and with any necessary modifications, apply.

6. The following special funds of the former Geraldine and Levels County Councils shall be retained and used only for the purposes for which they were raised within the Geraldine and Levels Divisions of the said county:

Geraldine Division: Bridge Fund, Flood Damage Restoration Fund, Housing and Property Maintenance Fund.

Levels Division: Roads and Bridge Fund.

7. The system of rating in the said county shall be on the basis on the capital value. Until such time as a revised valuation of the said county shall come into effect the provisions of the Rating Act 1967, shall, where applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply to the said county as if for the purposes of Part IX of that Act the said county were a “special purpose authority” and each division hereinbefore prescribed were a “constituent district” within the provisions of that Act.

8. For the purposes of the Local Authorities (Petroleum Tax) Act 1970, the following provisions shall apply:

(i) The district of the said county shall be deemed always to have been a constituent district of the South Canterbury Tax area;

(ii) The rate revenue of the said county for the previous financial year shall be the sum of the rate revenue for that period of the former counties of Geraldine and Levels.