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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 3

PUBLIC NOTICES. IN PARLIAMENT. .WELLINGTON HAEBOUE BOARD. PRIVATE BILL. IN the matter of a proposed Bill or Act Intituled aiii Act to confer certain powers upon the Wellington Harbour Board and the Corporation of the Borough of Miramar, and to enable the Wellington Harbour Board to acquire certain lands and property, reclaim landa l'rom the sea, execute works and borrow monies, and providing for the payment to the Board of the value of the improvement to adjoining lands arising therefrom. Pursuant to tht Standing. Orders o£ tho House of Representatives relating to Private Bills, tho Wellington Harbour Board gives notice that, either before or within fourteen . days after tho meeting of the General Assembly of New Zealand, to be held next after the date ' of this notice, a petition will be presented, through tho Honourable tho Speaker and Members of Parliament, Members of the House of Representatives, by it praying and. applying ■ > for leave to bring in a Private Bill to be called "The Wellington Harbour Board Reclamation ' and Empowering Act, 1905." The objects of the said application and Billaro as follows 1. To enable tho . Board to purchaso or taka compulsorily, under the provisions of " The Public Works Act, 1905," the right, title, and' , interest of the Wellington Patent Slip Company,' Limited," in certain lands, comprised in , Certificates of Title, Volume 20, Folio 127, and , y Volume 21, Folio' 287,.-and described in the ■ Seventh and Eighth Schedules to tho proposed Bill, and shown as such Schedules on a plan deposited in. the office of the Marine Department in Wellington, and marked M.D,. 3187, v together with tho buildings, machinery, plant, and assets of tho company, and all rights, privileges, and appurtenanccs appertaining thereto, ; aud on such acquisition to enable tho Patent Slip Company to wind-up under the provisions of Sections 262 to 265, both inclusive, of The Companies Act, 1903,-and to enable the Board to doviato tho existing road through the said lands. . . ; 2. To enable tho Board to purchase or take'. ■ compulsorily, under the provisions o£. " The -r. Public Works Act, 1905 JJ : : ■ •, (a.) All those three pieces of land, being ' parts of Sections 5 and 7on the plan,of .; . ' ■ tho Evans 1 Bay District, containing together'ail urea of about 3 .roods 30. ■ perches, together with all foreshore ; . . rights of access, bathing, and air other ■' ' privileges and powers over so much of tho foreshoro at'Evans Bay as lies b<»tweeu tho. eastern 'arid western portions 7 of the said lands; such pieces of land aro described in the Third. Schedule .Jto the proposed Bill, and shown as such ■ Schedule on tho said plan marked Ai.D. 3187. • • ■ ' . (b.) All that piece of land, being so much of : ■ -Section.2 on.the plan Evans Bay. • District, containing an area of about 1 rood 11 perches, as lies to the seaward - ' . sido of tho Evans Bay Road, and is dcscribed in the Sixth Schedule to tho ' / said ; Bill, and shown as such Schedule on the said plan marked M.D. 3187. 3. To provido that the' Compensation Court, ■ in determining the amount of compensation to ■ be paid in respect of lands compulsorily taken,. shall not. take into account any . increase. of value arising from the works of tne Board, and also'enabling tho Board to convey land in'lieu of paying money awarded for compensation. i. To provide that certain lands in Evans Bay, covered by water, shall vest in the Board, ' ■" aud empowering tho Board to reclaim the same, and execute works thereon; such laiids aro do- • scribed in the fifth and Ninth Schedules to the proposed Bill, and shown as such Schedules ou.tno said plan marked M.D.-3187. 5. To authorise the Board, to construct streets, and works ancillary thereto on any land referred to in tho proposed Bill.' 6. To exempt all lauds to be reclaimed tinder the authority of the. proposed Bill from pay- '• ment of rates so long as they remain the property of the Board, and are not let or leased: 7. To enable tho Board to close certain existing streets in tho Borough of Miramar, being ' tho streets comprised in the land described in tho Second. Schedule to tho proposed Bill, and' shown, as such. Schedule on -.the said plan 1 . i' marked -M.D. 3187, and to construct'in, lieu thereof, and in addition thereto, certain other . streets on lands vested, and to be vested, in the Board, and providing that so long as the. ' lands' described in tho first and the said Second Schedules to the proposed Bill, and shown as such, Schedules on the said ; plan"" marked M.D. 3157, shall remain the property , . of tile Board, and not bo let or leased, the rates payable by'the Board shall remain the 6aiAe as. at present. , . ( - .. . To empower'the. .Board and the Corporation of tho Borough' of Miramar. to carry out an. •' Agreement, providing for the closing.of streets on the land referred to. in the first and Second Schedules to the proposed' Biltf aud shown as such. Schedules on the said plan marked M.D; , 3157, aud on such closure, and on' tho Board constructing other streets in lieu thereof, to convey tho same to the Board, and empowering < ! . - tho Board ,to convey portion of tho lands described in the said Schedules to the Miramar i Borough for street purposes, and providing that '• so long as the lands described in the Baid Scho : dules,shall remain the property of,the Board, .-/' and'not be let or leased, the rates payable by the .Board shall remain the same as at present. S. To enable the Board, for the purpose of ■rectifying boundary lines, ..street levels, and, provi'iling access,' to purchase' or tako iii exchange adjoining lands, or sell or give in ex--change lands the property of the Board. . ' ( . ,Q. To vest in the Board certain lands in i- ■ Evans Bay, being lund covored by water, and being the land described in the Tenth and "- ; Eleventh Schedules to the proposed Bill, and. being shown as such Schedules, on the said plan •/ marked M.D. 3187. ..." 10. To vest in tho Board the lands . upon ... which, the .Boat Sheds .a't Clyde Quay are'constructed, being tho lands described in the' /•' Twelfth Schedule to the proposed Bill, and shown as such Schedule on a plan deposited in 'the oilice of tho -Marino Department in Wei- ' lington, and marked M.D. 3188. ' v.' , 11. To enable the Board to apply to a Court ' constituted under the proposed Bill aud "The public Works Act, IGlio,", to obtain payment . 'from ea,ch and every person -having any estate : 'or interest in land,' being a part of the lands comprised in Sections 2to 8 (inclusive) on tho ' plan of tlio Evans. Bay District, and Sections 1 t6"10 (both inclusive) on the plan of tho Watts > ■Pfininsula District, for. the increased value * 'given to the said lands'through the. works of: the Board. ' 12. To enable the Board, to borrow ,£1,000,000, /' wherewith to construct, execute, perform, and ' pay for tho following works, acts, matters, and 1 : things, or such of tnem as the Board may; in - ' its discretion think, lit, with such modification ■< .. and amendment as to the Board may -seem ; V meet:—Tho purchase of the undertaking and of all lands authorised to bo acquired- under ; this Act, including tho expenses ol' acquisition; • tho construction and equipment.of patent slips; - the installation of workshops, plant, and machinery in connection with graving, docks <■ and .slips; tho reclamation of any lands'which • the Board is or may be authorised to reclaim, including the purchase of all lands necessary, in tho opinion of tho Board,-for such rectama- : - tion, either for spoil purposes or<for purposes - of'-providing access to or road frontages for. Y such reclamations, including tho'cost of retain- ' ing walls, tho' construction •of seweiV and ■ watercourses'and of streets; til-edging and the purchase, hire, and maintenance of dredging appliances, and other expenditure connected therewith; tho construction of quays and quay- 1 :walls, pitched slopes, and'." works of a like nature; tho extension of existing "wharves and stores, and the construction of new. wharves ' ■ jetties, sheds, offices, and'stores, and of cranes' ' ' and of other machinery; 1 plant, and appliances' ) other harbour works; the expenses of tho flotation of tho. loan or any portion thereof. Tho petition and the proposed Bili and plans. will be presented and deposited at the office of.' tho Examiner'of Standing Orders, either before or, within fourteen' days after tho commencement of tho said Session. .• ■, . ■ "i Plans, including copies of tho said plans marked M.D.,.3187 and MID. <3IBS, -books of 5 reference, and a copy of tho Gazette containing this advertisement, w-ill be deposited for publicinspection at the' office of the , Commissioner of Crown Lands at Wellington, not less than ' thirty days before tho commencement of the Baid Session. ■. At or, ten days after tho commencement of tho* said Session, a printed copy of the proposed Bill will bo deposited in tho office of tlie Minister-of Internal Affairs.. Dated this 2Sth day of April, 1908. . ' Tfye Common Seal of tho said Board was here- ' /,'unto affixed tho 28th day of April, 1908, by tho -authority of tho said Board, and in ; ' tho presence of — . THOMAS jr. WILFORD, Chairman; R. FLETCHER, Member,; T. KENNEDY MACDONALD, Momber • H. E. NICHOLLS, Acting-Secretary, 'i Harbour Board Office, Wellington. . , .7 THE ONLY , HAIR RESTOEER