• Preamble

  WHEREAS the Committee of Management constituted under the Papanui Memorial Hall Management Act 1928 (hereinafter called the said Act), and called the Memorial Hall Committee, has controlled the general maintenance and management of the Papanui Memorial Hall, kept an Income and Expenditure Account relating thereto, and generally managed the said hall pursuant to the provisions of the said Act down to the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight: And whereas the Waimairi County Council has paid its proportion of the rates due in respect of the said hall and the deficiency in connection with the said hall down to that date: And whereas the Christchurch City Council has permanently resumed the duty of receiving and expending the income of and all moneys arising out of the management and out of the use of the said memorial hall as from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and has controlled, maintained, managed, and administered the said hall since that date:

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