• Preamble

  WHEREAS the New Plymouth Borough Council (hereinafter called the Council), in pursuance and exercise of powers and authorities vested in it by the Public Works Act 1908, took (inter alia) the lands described in Schedule 1 hereto for the purposes of additions and extensions to its electric light and power works, the Proclamation in regard thereto being published in the Gazette of the twenty-second day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty: And whereas, the said lands being no longer required for such purposes, His Excellency the Governor-General, by Order in Council bearing date the fifth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and published in the Gazette of the eighth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, did direct the sale (inter alia) of the said lands: And whereas the said lands were duly submitted for sale at public auction, but no bids were received therefor, and it is now expedient that the Council be empowered to lease the same: And whereas the St Aubyn Town Board, prior to the incorporation of the St Aubyn Town District in the Borough of New Plymouth, had, pursuant to the powers vested in it in that behalf, raised a certain special loan, particulars whereof are set out in Schedule 2 hereto: And whereas it is expedient in the interests of the Borough of New Plymouth that the Council should be empowered to pay the annual charges in respect of interest and sinking fund on the said loan out of its General Account: And whereas it is deemed expedient to grant to the Council the power to establish and maintain boiling-down works, and other powers incidental thereto:

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