• Preamble

  WHEREAS for many years past the Dunedin City Council (hereinafter called the Council) has adopted a policy of planting timber-trees on land belonging to the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Dunedin: And whereas many of the Council's plantations have now reached the stage of development when it is desirable to fell the trees therein and mill the timber resulting therefrom and market the same: And whereas it is desirable to confer certain additional powers upon the Council in relation to afforestation matters:

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