31. Declaring certain land to be a district for the purpose of the
 construction and maintenance of drainage works therein---Whereas the
 land described in subsection two of this section is to be subdivided for
 the settlement of ex-servicemen and it is desirable for the successful
 settlement of the individual subdivisions thereof that a drainage
 district be established under control of the Rodney County Council
 pursuant to section one hundred and sixty-eight of the Counties Act 1920
 without first complying with the provisions of subsection two of that
 section: And whereas the Rodney County Council has agreed to accept
 control of the proposed drainage district: Be it therefore enacted as
 follows:

   (1) The land more particularly described in subsection two of this
 section is hereby declared to be a district for the purpose of the
 construction and maintenance of drainage works therein as if a petition
 had been signed under subsection two of section one hundred and
 sixty-eight of the Counties Act 1920 in respect thereof and as if the
 Rodney County Council had complied with the provisions of subsections
 three and four of the said section one hundred and sixty-eight and as if
 the Council had, by special order under subsection one of the said
 section, declared it so to be, and the Council shall have in relation
 thereto all the powers possessed by County Councils in respect of lands
 declared to be drainage districts in pursuance of the said section one
 hundred and sixty-eight.

   (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described
 as follows:

   All that area in the Rodney County, North Auckland Land District,
 situated in Blocks XV and XVI, Hukatere Survey District, Block XIII,
 Otamatea Survey District, Blocks III and VI, Okaka Survey District, and
 Block I, Tauhoa Survey District, containing by admeasurement a total of
 nine thousand and forty-one acres, more or less, being all the land on a
 plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland, under Number
 10011, and being parts of Okahukura Numbers 1 and 2 Blocks.