This Act may be cited as the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Act, 1911.

The Wellington City Milk-supply Act, 1910, is hereby amended as follows:—

Subsection one of section six of the Wellington City Empowering Act, 1908, is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “City of Wellington,” the words “with the exception of the portions of the lands defined in the First Schedule to the Wellington (City) Suburbs Sanitation Act, 1893, and being formerly portion of the Borough of Karori”; and the said section shall be read and construed for all purposes as if these words had formed part of and been inserted in the said section at the time of the passing of the Act

The Council may make by-laws fixing reasonable charges for admission to sports-grounds owned or controlled by the Council, and whether or not situate upon a public reserve. No such by-laws shall authorize charges to be made on more than twenty days in any one year; and such charges shall not exceed for admission on any day, in the case of persons fifteen years of age or over, one shilling; in the case of persons under that age, sixpence; and children under seven years of age shall be admitted free:

Provided that not more than ten of such days shall in any year be fixed on Saturdays.

The provisions of sections three hundred and forty-eight, three hundred and forty-nine, and three hundred and fifty-one of the Municipal. Corporations Act, 1908, shall, so far as the same are applicable, be read together with and form part of this section.

The power to make by-laws vested in the Council by virtue of the provisions of this section shall be in addition to all powers to make by-laws or to make regulations which are now or hereafter may be vested in the Council under or by virtue of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, or any other Act:

Provided that this section shall not apply to any reserve within the City of Wellington, with the exception of the reserves known as the “Basin Reserve,” “Kelburne Park,” and “Duppa Street Park,” and the provisions of paragraph (d) of section twenty-nine of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, shall not apply to the aforesaid reserves.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Wellington City Milk-supply Act, 1910, or this Act, it shall be lawful for the Minister of Public Health to license, for such period and on such terms and conditions as to inspection and otherwise as he may think fit, any company or person owning a milk-station to carry on the business of selling and distributing milk in wholesale quantities as if neither of the said Acts had been passed:

Provided that the City Council may at any time acquire the business and assets of any such company of person upon payment of such sum as shall be fixed by a Court of Arbitration, consisting of a Judge of the Supreme Court and two Assessors, one appointed by the Council and one by the company or person whose business it is desired to acquire.