WAIMAKARIRI HARBOR BILL.

Press, Volume XXX, Issue 4078, 22 August 1878, Page 3

WAIMAKARIRI HARBOR BILL.

[By Telegraph.]

j [from otjb ows correspondent.] 1 WELtrXGTOJT, August 21. The Wairoakariri Harbor Board Bill (Mr Bowen) is an act to grant an endowment to the Waimakariri Harbor Board, and to enable such Board to borrow a sum of money. 1. The short title is the Waimakariri Harbor Endowment Act, 1878. 2. In this Act the expression "The Board" means the Waimakariri Harbor Board, incorporated under The Waimakariri Harbor Board Act, 1876. 3. Aa soon as convenient after the passing of this Act, the Board may .-elect out of any Crown Lands in the Provincial District of Canterbury open for selection and sale one or more block or blocks of land not exceeding in the whole 5000 acres. Every such selection of laud Bhall be tubject to the approval of the Governor, and upon such approval the land affected shall be granted by the Governor in the name on behilf of her Majesty to tho .Board for an estate in fee simple. 4. The land included in any such grant may be leased in such manner and for such term as the Board may now lease other lands vested in it, and the rents and profits thereof shall form part of the harbor fund of the Board. 5. For the purpose of constructing, carrying on, or maintaining any harbor works or other works which the Board is now or may hereafter be empowered to construct, the Board may from time to time or at one time borrow and raise any sum or sums of money not exceeding £5000 in the whole. 6. All such monies shall be. borrowed, raised, and applied in the manner provided by an Act passed or intended to be pasted in tho present session of the General Assembly, the short title of which is the Harbor Act, 1878.