Gisborne Harbour Board Enabling Act 1919 No 19 (as at 03 September 2007), Local Act

Gisborne Harbour Board Enabling Act 1919

Local Act1919 No 19
Date of assent4 November 1919

An Act to enable the Gisborne Harbour Board to borrow Two Million Dollars.

  • Preamble

    WHEREAS the Gisborne Harbour Board is desirous of constructing an outer harbour to afford shelter and accommodation to shipping of large tonnage: And whereas it is estimated that the cost of constructing such a harbour will be two million dollars: And whereas such a harbour will be of use and benefit to the Port of Poverty Bay and to the north-east coast of New Zealand and to shipping generally: And whereas the said Board is desirous of borrowing the sufficient money estimated as aforesaid to construct such a harbour:

    The words two million dollars was substituted, as from 10 July 1967, for the words one million pounds pursuant to section 7(1) Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).

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