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Dune din District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment Bill The Local Bills Committee, to which was referred the above-mentioned. Bill, has the honour to report:— (1) That it is a Local Bill. (2) That the Standing Orders have been complied with, with the exception of Standing Order 366, which, in so far as it relates to the number of days from the commencement of the session within which Local Bills may be introduced, was suspended by the House to enable the Bill to be introduced and to proceed. (3) That the rights and prerogatives of the Crown are not affected. (4) That the Committee recommends that the Bill be allowed to proceed without amendment. 10th September, 1947. Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Amendment Bill The Local Bills Committee, to which was referred the above-mentioned Bill, has the honour to report:— (1) That it is a Local Bill. (2) That the Standing Orders have been complied with, with the exception of Standing Order 366, which, in so far as it relates to the number of days from the commencement of the session within which local Bills may be introduced, was suspended by the House to enable the Bill to be introduced and to proceed. (3) That the rights and prerogatives of the Crown are affected in that, under the Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Act, 1927, certain large areas of land which were vested by the Crown in the Wellington City Corporation in trust may be deemed to be public reserves. (4) That the Committee recommends that the Bill be allowed to proceed, with the amendments shown on the copy of the Bill annexed hereto. (5) That the Committee further recommends that section 32 of the principal Act, as amended by section 2 of the Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Amendment Act, 1929, be amended by the addition to the Bill -of the following new subsection (5) to clause 16 : (5) The Board may require any local authority which is not a contributory local authority on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and which receives water from any portion of the Wellington Metropolitan Area by virtue of an agreement with the Minister or otherwise howsoever to pay to the General Account to cover expenditure on any water-collecton area such amounts as the Board and the local authority concerned agree upon or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Minister. (Note. —The subsection quoted above is, in the,opinion of the Committee, not within the objects which the Bill as originally brought in was intended to effect, but as it has been agreed to by the representatives of all the local authorities affected, the Committee considers that the honourable member in charge of the Bill may reasonably ask for the suspension of Standing Order 370 under the procedure set out in paragraph (2) of that Standing Order. 24th September, 1947.

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