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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1924, Page 16

.Because the failure' o£. the eleotric light during an operation at Grimsby Hospital plunged the operating theatre into darkness recently, the Burgeons now wear small electric lamps on their foreheads illuminated from independent batteries. PUBLIC. NOTICES. . WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL. ' / LOCAL BILL. . WELLINGTON CITY EMPOWERING •f' AND AMENDMENT. TV-OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it ■trj '■ " the intention of the Wellington Uty_ Council to introduce in' the forthcoming: session of Parliament the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Bill. The objects that the said Bill is intended to effect are:— . 1- To authorise the exchange of land at Queon s Park in the City of Wellington for Town - Belt purposes: ■ 2. To authorise the City to take over as public streets" the following private streets and private ways :'—..- Brosnahan' terrace, Heaton terrace, .Kennedy street, Rixon grove,' Torquay wrt. r'ace. Tutchen avenue, Wesley road, Wiuttaker 6treot, Lindum terrace Grass street Extension (East of Town Belt), Beauchamp street. (Wad'estown), and to provide that "the provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, . anall not apply to such streets when taken over. ■■•-..-■ . .1 3. To abolish the limitation upon Tramways and Lighting Accident. Funds. ■ . 4. To confer further powers on the City m respect of the widening, altering, and extending of streets, and to authorise the City Council to purchase lands for that purpose; to sell surplus lands, and to borrow money by way of special loan by special Order for the purpose of purchasing land for this purpose, and for the purpose' of constructing, widening, altering, and extending streets. .5. To repeal Sections 7 and 9 of the Wellington City Empowering Act, 1897, Section 6 of the Wellington City Empowering Act, 1899, Sections 3, 4, and 6 of the Wellington City Empowering Act, 1908, and the AVellington Citv Empowering and Amendment Act, 1913. ' 6. To extend tho. time for carrying out the Evans Bay Reclamation. . 7.. To authorise tho making of bylaws to fix tho charge for the Zoo for all days of -the'week,' including Sunday, of not exceeding one shilling for persons over 15 years of age. ' /. _ 8. To amend Section 11 of the Wellington City Empowering and Special Rates' Consolidation Act, 1923, eo as to make it clear that that section only applies to i loans in respect of which rates are made after, the passing of the Act and before the first day of April," 1924. 9. To extend to ten years the time within which tho Council may bprrow moneys for tho following loans:— (1) Loan for Tramways: Kelbnrn, Karori, and Northland T,ramway . Extension, viz!: Willis ' 6treet, Aro street, and Raroa road; ■ Extension to Northland. ..• £66,986 (2) Loan for Tramways: Tramway Extension to ' Melroso (Sutherland . road) from Zoo Gates £12,900 (3) Loan for Tunnel: New Tunnel through ' Mount . Victoria :... £161,250 (4) Loan for Fire Protection ■ Build- I ings, Firo Alarms, and Equipment, etc. — In Brooklyn, Mornington, Island Bay, Ngaio, Khandallah, Kelburn, ] Northland, Karori, Roseneath £21,500 A copy of tho above Bill and a plan of the lands affected -by the. Exchange at Queen's Park have been deposited in tho Magistrate's Court, Lambton quay, Wellington, and; also at the Town Clerk's Office, Town Hall, Cuba street, Wellington, and such copies aro there open for public inspection for a period of three full weeks from the first publication of this advertisement. Dated at Wellington this 27th day of May, 1924. R. TAIT, , . Acting-Town Clerk. This is the second publication of this notice.