"WASHING-UP" BILL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 35, 5 November 1919, Page 6

"WASHING-UP" BILL

WELLINGTON. CLAUSES. Amendments to the "Washing-up" Rill were introduced yesterday in time to be included in the Bid belore its passage through the House. Power is taken to resume a lease of an Education Deserve in tho Kairunga District, 'at present hold on a lease, for 21 years, for the purpose of leasing tho land to returned soldiers in subdivisions.

The Iliitt Jiiver Hoard is empowered to lease to the borough of Lower Ilult an area of some four acres on Gear Island as a public recreation ground, without putting the lease up to piiblia auction or public tender. There is a, uause in the Bill relating lo the prospective union of the 'borough of Eastbourne, with the city of AVcilington. The clause as ,it stood originally was a simple clause to get over a provision in (he Muirapal Corporations Act, and tho clause enacts simply that tho areas of the two boroughs shall be deemed to bo a. continuous area. An amendment introduced into the Bill in Commiltee provides that in the event of a union being under consideration a poll of the ratepayers of Eastbourne sball be. taken on tho proposal. A clause extends the renewal periods in Wellington city leases from H year* to 21 yea re. The Wellington Gity Council is authorised to make compassionate allowances to servants of the council who may retire with the consent of the council from such causes as infirmity arising through old ago or illness. The importance of this clause is in that it wilt enable the council to clear tho way for the adoption of a reasonably sound superannuation scheme for employees of the cei poration. The Hastings Borough Council is an- | thorised to extend Station Street of a less width than (13 feet. The Johnsom-ille Town Board is exempted from rales levied by the Wellington City Council or the Makara, Count)' Council in respect of land hrfd by that board as a catchment area for water supply, in the Oharin district.