• Preamble

  WHEREAS by a Crown grant bearing date on or about the seventeenth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all that parcel of land situate in the Town of Invercargill, containing by admeasurement seventy-five acres three roods twenty-six perches, more or less, forming a belt round the northern, eastern, and southern sides of the said town, was granted to the Superintendent of the Province of Southland and his successors in fee-simple in trust for public purposes connected with the improvement and benefit of the Town of Invercargill, to wit, to be used for the purposes of public pleasure, recreation, and amusement: And whereas by a deed of conveyance bearing date on or about the twenty-fifth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and made between Her Majesty the Queen, of the one part, and the Mayor, Councillors, and burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill, of the other part, the parcel of land comprised in the said Crown grant was, in exercise of the powers vested in her by virtue of The Abolition of Provinces Act 1875, and The Municipal Corporations Act 1876, granted, conveyed, and assured by Her Majesty the Queen to the Mayor, Councillors, and burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill in trust for public purposes connected with the improvement and benefit of the Town of Invercargill, to wit, to be used for purposes of public pleasure, recreation, and amusement: And whereas the Council of the Borough of Invercargill are about to construct waterworks for the supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the Town of Invercargill, and it is expedient to appropriate and set apart for the purposes of such waterworks the portion of the said parcel of land described in the Schedule to this Act:

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