• Preamble

  WHEREAS by a Proclamation under the Public Works Act 1876, made on the twenty-seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, certain lands particularly described in the Schedule thereto were taken and vested in the Corporation of the City of Dunedin for the purpose of the construction of certain works therein described: And whereas by a further Proclamation under the Public Works Act 1882, made on the twenty-second day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the waters of the Silverstream and its tributaries and other smaller streams described in the Schedule thereto were taken for the purposes of the aforesaid works and vested in the said Corporation: And whereas difficulties have arisen in connection with the water-race or aqueduct known as the Silverstream Race owing to the unsatisfactory nature of portions of the ground on which the same is constructed, and it has become necessary and desirable in consequence thereof and in the interests of public health to convey the water for the purposes of the city's water-supply by means of pipes over lands, some of which are not vested in the said Corporation:

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