WASHING-UP BILL

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23446, 29 September 1941, Page 6

WASHING-UP BILL

MACMILLAN BROWN LIBRARY

SOME WORKS TO BE TRANSFERRED * (P.R.) WELLINGTON, September 26. “There arc no landmines in this bill,” said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon P. Fraser) when the Local' Legislation Bill, the first of the annual washing-up measures to appear, was introduced in the House shortly before it rose this afternoon. The bill was read a first time. Powers for the incorporation in the Canterbury University College library of certain works in the MacMillan Brown Library arc proposed to be conferred on the corporation of Canterbury College by the bill. The clause proposes that it shall not be deemed a breach of the will if any work belonging to the MacMillan Brown Library, other than works on anthropology, cnthnology, or philology, and works relating to the Pacific area and its people, be incorporated in the general collections of the college library, so long as such work bears a distinctive bookplate identifying it as a volume of the MacMillan Brown Library, Authority is sought In the bill to the raising of a special loan of £3500 by the Westport Borough Council for the completion of a new town hall, without taking a poll of ratepayers. The payment by the Lyttelton Borough Council of £696 9s Id from a loan raised for improving and extending the borough water supply, to the waterworks account, from which the expenditure was made, is validated In another clause. The purchase by the Christchurch City Council of its own debentures is proposed to be validated. Validation of a compassionate allowance of £248 11s Id to Charles Henry Newcome, paid by the Timaru Borough Council, is’ proposed and a long clause makes provision for the operation of the equalisation, renewal, and reserve funds of the Timaru Harbour Board, which desires that all former enactments leading up to an annual payment of £BBI shall be repealed, and that a fictitious asset now appearing in the accounts of the fund should be written off. Authority is given in the bill to the Waimakariri River Trust to transfer to the Harewood Golf Club the extensive water-piping system on the club’s course. The club desires to liquidate. It is explained in the explanatory notes to the bill and in terms of the lease that all improvements revert to the trust upon forfeiture of the lease. The club wishes to remove the piping, valued at approximatey £4OO to £SOO, for sale for the benefit of the club's creditors, and the trust considered that it was equitable for this to be allowed.