• Preamble

  WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the Hauraki Plains County Council to take, divert, and impound the waters flowing into and in the stream in the County of Thames in the Hauraki Mining District called Apakura Stream, and the tributary thereof called Canoe Creek, for the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants of portions of the County of Hauraki Plains and to part of the County of Thames, and for the same purpose to empower such Council to lay mains and pipes from such streams to the County of Hauraki Plains over reserves and roads and across the Paeroa-Thames railway-line and the Waihou River, which powers are not presently vested in such Council in respect of lands within a mining district: And whereas there is no source of water suitable for the aforesaid purpose available except in the Hauraki Mining District above mentioned: And whereas the said Council and the Thames County Council have entered into an agreement respecting the user of such water, and it is desirable that such agreement should be validated to set at rest any doubts as to the legality thereof:

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