WHEREAS the Council of the City of Wellington has raised the sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds authorised to be raised by the Wellington City Sanitation Loan Empowering Act, 1892, and the sum of thirty-three thousand pounds authorised to be raised by the Wellington City Sanitation Loan Act, 1897, for providing a scheme of drainage for the Wellington City Drainage Area, being the City of Wellington as it was constituted prior to its amalgamation with the Borough of Melrose and those parts of the late Borough of Melrose and of the Borough of Karori defined in the First Schedule to the Wellington (City) Suburbs Sanitation Act, 1893: And whereas it is now necessary to raise the sum of thirty-three thousand pounds to pay off the said loan of thirty-three thousand pounds, and to secure the same by special rate on the said drainage area: And whereas it will be necessary to raise moneys to pay off the said sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds: And whereas it will also be necessary from time to time to raise moneys for paying off loans to be raised by special order in connection with or in continuance of said loans: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the power of the Wellington City Council to raise loans in connection with or in continuance of the said loans, and to levy special rates over the part of the Borough of Karori comprised in the said drainage area for the purpose of securing interest and sinking fund on loans raised for such purposes, although it was intended that such rates should be so levied: And whereas the same difficulties may arise in respect of other loans