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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2894, 9 June 1925, Page 3

The manawatu-oroua river DISTRICT AMENDMENT ACT, 1925. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Application is intended to be made to the General Assembly of New Zealand at the forthcoming Session thereof for leave to introduce on behalf of the ManawatuOroua River Board a Bill entitled “An Act to amend The ManawatuOroua River District Act, 1923.’’ 1. The Bill provides that Act may be cited as “The Manawatu-Or-oua River District Amendment Act, 1925,” and shall form part of and be read together with “The Manawatu-Oroua River District Act, 1923,” herein and therein called “the principal Act.” And that 2. Section 34 of the principal Act be amended by striking out all the words after “option” in the 9th line thereof and submitting the following: “Into four or more classes by reference to the degree to which those lands have received or are likely to receive

either an increase in value or an indirect benefit from the works and operations carried out or proposed to be carried out by the River Board. In such last, mentioned ease the rates shall be levied upon all the said classes of land (other than lands which have not received and are not likely to receive any increase in value or any indirect benefit from the said works and operations) in such proportions as the River Board in each case approves. And that 3. Section 3, Sub-section (1) of the principal Act be amended by adding the words “and in the First Schedule to the ManawatuOroua River District Amendment Act, 1925,” after the words “The First Schedule hereto” and Inadding to section 3 (1) the following clause: —“Such area shall lie deemed to have been included in such, special River District as from the 22nd day of October 1924.” And also providing that 4. (1) If the Board is of opinion that lands not included in the district have derived or may derive benelit from the operations carried out or proposed to he carried out under the powers conferred by the Principal Act, the Board may present a petition to the Governor praying that the boundaries of the district may be altered j*o as to include such lands in the district or in any subdivision thereof. (2) Every, such petition shall detine with reasonable certainty the boundaries of the lands proposed to be included. (3) On presentation to the

Governor of such petition by the Board, the Governor may, it' he thinks lit, direct a Commission consisting of tiie Commissioner of Crown Lands, the officer in charge of the valuation district in which the lands proposed to be included are situated, and some third person whom the Governor deems qualified for the purpose, to inquire and report to him as to whether the lands defined in the petition or any part thereof have derived or may derive substantial benefit from the operations carried out or proposed to be carried out by the Board, and whether such lands or part thereof should he included in the district, and accordingly become liable to levy of rates thereafter to he made by the Board, and to what extent (if any) such lands ought to become liable for the future levy of rates already made by the Board. (4) Such Commission shall have all the powers, authorities, and functions of a Commission under the Commission*; of Inquiry Act, 1908. (5) If the Commission reports to the Governor that such lands or any part thereof ought to be included in the district, the Governor may, by Order in Council, alter the boundaries of the district, or any sub-division thereof, by including therein such lands or any part, thereof. All lands so included shall as from the date of the Order in Council, be liable to the levy of all rales thereafter made by the Board. (G) If the Commission reports to the Governor that such lands or any part thereof ought to become liable for the future levy of. rates theretofore made by the Board, Die- Governor may, by the same Order in Council, direct that such lands or part thereof shall he so liable for all levies of shall be so liable for al evies of such rates after the. date of the Order in Council. And that 5. Section 3, Subsection (2) of the principal Act be amended by striking out the words “in the Second Schedule hereto” and by inserting in lieu thereof the words “in the Second Schedule to the Manawatu-Oroua River District Amendment Act, 1925/-' and by adding to Section 3 (2) the following clause: —“Such subdivisions shall be deemed to have been constituted as from the 22nd day of October, 1924;” and replacing the Socond Schedule to “The ManawatU-Oroua River District Act 1923.” And thatG. Section 8 (1) of the Principal Act be amended by striking out the letter (e) where it occurs in the first line of the said section, and submitting therefore the letter (e). And that 7. Section 35 of the -principal Act