• Preamble

  WHEREAS by The Christchurch City Reserves Act 1877, section 4, the several parcels of land in Schedule 3 of the said Act were vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and citizens of the City of Christchurch, in trust, for the purposes of a market-place: And whereas by section 4 of The Public Reserves Act 1881, as to any public reserve set apart for any of the purposes named in Class one of Schedule 1 thereto, the Governor may, by Order in Council to be published in the Gazette, change the purpose of any reserve or any part thereof to some other purpose named in the said Class one of Schedule 1, and that thereafter such reserve or part of a reserve shall be deemed to be dedicated to the purpose defined in such Order in Council: And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date the fourth day of March, and published in the New Zealand Gazette dated the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, it was directed that a portion of the reserve set forth in Schedule 3 to The Christchurch City Reserves Act 1877, therein mentioned, should be and the same was thereby changed from that of a reserve for a market-place to that of a reserve for a town hall and municipal offices: And whereas it is expedient to alter or change the purpose for which the residue of the lands set forth in the said Schedule 3 was set apart, and to extend the powers of leasing the said land as hereinafter provided:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—