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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3973, 20 July 1929, Page 3

THE MANAWATU- OROUA RIVER DISTRICT AMENDMENT ACT, 1929. is hereby given that the Manawatu-Oroua River Board being a Board constituted under “The Manawatu-Oroua River Distinct Act, 1923” intends to introduce in the pres'ent session of Parliament a Bill to amend the said Act. The objects which the Bill is intended to effect are as follows: — This Act may be cited as The Manawatu-Oroua River District Amendment Act, 1929, and shall form part of and be read together with The Manawatu-Oroua River District Act, 1923 (herein after called the principal Act). 2. (a) Where it appears to /the River Board that any work which the River Board is authorised to undertake is for the special benefit of any subdivision or defined part of the district (hereinafter called separate area) the River Board may for defraying the amount payable by the River Board in respect of claim for compensation (if any), by any person having any estate or interest in any lands taken under the principal Act or the Public Works Act 1928 for such works or claiming to 'be injuriously affected thereby or suffering any damage from the exercise of any of the powers given by the principal Act or The Public Works Act, 1928, in respect thereof from time to time make and levy a special rate or special rates on all property within such separate alrea. (b) Such separate rate shall be in addition to the separate rate (if any) made and levied on such separate area in pursuance of Section 33 of the principal Act. 8 (c) Before directing such separate rate or any separate rate under Section 33 of The Principal Act to ibe made the River Board shall after complying with the provisions of Bub-section 3 (b) (c) (d) (e) and (f) of Section 3 of “The Local Bodies Loans Act, 1926” by resolution define such subdivision or part of subdivision as a separate area. (d) The River Board shall •cause an estimate of the amount payable by the Raver Boai’d for which the rate is proposed to be. made in respect of any compensation so claimed or payable showing any sums available for such purpose the additional sums required, the total rateable property within the separate area affected and the rate thereon necessary to raise the money required. (e) Nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any person to recover from the River Board the compensation provided by “The Public Works Act, 1928.” 3. The River Board shall apply any- moneys received in respect of the sale or lease of any land purchased taken or acquired by the River Board f<sr any such work for the special benefit of any separate area in or towards the payment of' such separate rate or rates or any rate or rates at the date of such receipt levied or thereafter to be levied on such separate area or in or towards the repayment of any special loan raised for such separate area. 4. (a) The River Board may enter into a contract with any local authority or ratepayer of any such separate area that they will purchase any work carried out or to be carried out by the River Board for the special benefit and at the expense of such local authority or ratepayer in so far as the same five part of any scheme of river protection adopted toy the River Board or are in the opinion of the Board likely to be required for the efficient carrying out of the River Board’s operations. (b) All the provisions of Section 7 (I) (II) (IH) (IV) of the Principal Act, shall apply mutatis mutandis in respect of any such contract. 5. Sub-section (3) of Section 33 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by adding after the word “Subdivision” the wards “or defined part of a subdivision.” 6. (a) At any time either before or after making any rate under Section 33 of the Principal Act or Section 2 of this Act the River Board may and shall at the request of a majority of the rate* payers in the separate area affected apply for a special loan in pursuance of Section 38 of the principal Act to provide foi' the expenditure upon and compensation in respect of any work that, the River Board h.as undertaken for the special benefit of such separate area or for cither of such, purposes. (b) After The River Board shall have made and levied a Special rate as security for any such special loan no separate rate previously made in respect of such work shall be levied by the Riven’ Board. And it is hereby further notified that a copy of the Bill and a plan has been deposited in the respective Courthouses of the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North and Foxton and is open for public inspection for a. period of three weeks. Dated this 6th day of July, 1929. R, H. SPENCER, Clerk of Board.

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