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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2714, 23 June 1925, Page 12

GENERAL NOTICES. THE MANAWATU-OROUA RIVER X DISTRICT AMENDMENT ACT, 1926. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Application is intended to be made to the General Assembly of New Zealand at the forthcoming' Session thereof for leave to Introduce on behalf of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board a Bill entitled “An Act to amend The Manawatu-Oroua River District Act, 1923.” 1. The Bill provides that Act may be ■ cited as "The Manawatu-Oroua River District Amendment Act, 1925,” and shall form part of and be read together with "The ' Manawatu-Oroua River District Act, 1923.” herein and- therein called “the principal Act.” And that 2. Section 34 of the principal Act be amended by striking out all the words after “option” in the 9th line thereof and substituting the following: “Into four or more classes by reference to the degree to which those lands have received or are likely to receive either an increase in value or an indirect benefit from the works and operations carried out or proposed to be carried out by the River Board. In such last mentioned case the rates shall be levied upon all the said classes of land (other than lands which have not received and arc not likely to receive any increase in value or any indirect benefit from the said works and operations) in such proportions as the River Board in each case approves. And that 3. Section 3, Sub-section (1) of the principal Act be amended by adding the words "and in the First Schedule to the Manawatu-Oroua River District Amendment Act. 1925,” after the words "The First Schedule hereto” and by adding to Section 3 (1) the following clause: —“Such area shall be deemed to have been included In such special River District as from the 22nd day of October 1924.” And also providing that 4. (1) If the Board is of opinion that lands not included in the district have derived or may derive benefit from the operations car-i ried out or proposed to be carried out under the powers conferred by the Principal Act, the Board may present a petition to the Governor praying that the boundaries of the district may be altered so as to include such lands in the district or in any subdivision thereof. (2) Every such petition shall 1 define with reasonable certainty the boundaries of the lands projiosed to be included. (3) On presentation to the Governor of such petition by the Board, the Governor may, if he thinks fit, direct a Commission, consisting of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, the officer in charge of the valuation district in which the lands proposed to be included are situated, and some third person whom the Governor deems qualified for the purpose, to inquire and report to him as to whether the lands defined in the petition or any part thereof have derived or may derive substantial benefit from the operations carried out or proposed to be carried out by the Board, and whether such lands or part thereof should be included in the dlsl trict, and accordingly become liable to levy of rates thereafter to be made by the Board, and to what extent (if any) such lands ought to become liable for the future levy of rates already made by the Board. (4) Such Commission shall have all the powers, authorities, and functions of a Commission under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908. (5) If the Commission reports to the Governor that such lands or any part thereof ought to be 1 N included in the district, the Governor may, by Order in Council, alter the boundaries of the district, or any subdivision thereof, ■ by including therein such lands or any part thereof. All lands so ’included shall, as from the date of the Order in Council, be liable to the levy of all rates thereafter made by the Board. (G) If the Commission reports to the Governor that such lands or any part thereof ought to become liable for the future levy of rates theretofore made by the Board, the Governor may, by the same Order in Council, direct that such lands or part thereof shall be so liable, and the same shall be so liable for all levies of such rates after the date of the Order in Council. And that 5. Section 3, Sub-section (2) of the principal Act bo amended by striking out the words “in the Second Schedule hereto” and by inserting in lieu thereof the words “in the Second Schedule to the Manawatu-Oroua River District Amendment Act, 1925,” and by adding to Section 3 (2) the following clause: —“Such subdivisions shall he deemed to have been constituted as from the 22nd day of October. 1924:” and repealing the Second Schedule to "The Manawatu-Oroua River District Act 1923.” And that 6. Section S (1) of the Principal Act be amended by striking out the letter (c) where it occurs in the first line of the said section, and substituting therefor the letter j (e). And that 7. Section 35 of the principal Act be amended by adding thereto the following clause: — "Jn order to remedy minor anomalies and injustices in connection with any classification heretofore made the classifiers if they consider any modification equitable. may upon the direction of the Board modify the classification of any land by dividing it Into more than one class, provided always that no such modification shall increase the total