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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2897, 16 June 1925, Page 3

'PIIE MAXAWATU-OBOUA 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 Manawatn-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 case 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 ns the River Board in eaeli case approves. And that :J. Section 3, Sub-section (1) of the principal Act be amended by adding the words “and in the First Schedule to the ManawaluOroua River District Amendment Act, 1U25," after the words “The First Schedule hereto'-’ and by adding to section 3 (1) the following clause: —“Such area shall be deemed to have been included in such special River District as from (lie 22nd day of October 1!)2J." And also providing that -I. (1) If the Board is of opinion that lands not included in the district have derived or may derive benefit from the operations carried out or proposed to be carried out under the powers conferred by the Principal Act, the Board may present a petition Lo the Governor praying that the boundaries of the district may be altered &o as to include such lands in the district or in any subdivision thereof. (2) Every, such petition shall define with reasonable certainty the boundaries of the lands proposed to bo included. (3) On presentation to the Governor of such petition by the Board, the Governor may, if lie thinks lit, direct a Commission consisting of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, the oilicer in charge of the valuation district in which the lauds 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 be included in the district, and accordingly become liable to levy of rates thereafter to be 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 Commissions 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 Gov-; ernor 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, lie liable to the levy of all rates thereafter made by the Board. (li) 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, the Governor may, by the same Order in Council, direct that such lands or part thereof shall be 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 llanawalu-Oroua lviver District Amendment Act, 1325, ' 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 f and replacing the Socond Schedule to “The Munawatu-Oroua River District Act 1923.” And that G. Section 8 (1) of the Principal Act be amended by striking out the letter (c) 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