• Preamble

  WHEREAS by the Paritutu Centennial Park Act 1938 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) the lands described in Schedule 1 to the principal Act were vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of New Plymouth for the purposes of a recreation ground to be known as “the Paritutu Centennial Park”, as a memorial of the celebration in the year nineteen hundred and forty-one of the first one hundred years of organised settlement of the Provincial District of Taranaki: And whereas prior to such vesting the said lands described in Schedule 1 to the principal Act were held in trust by the New Plymouth Harbour Board for the construction and maintenance of such docks, piers, and other works as might be deemed advisable by the Board for facilitating the trade and commerce of the Town of New Plymouth: And whereas by the principal Act the lands described in Schedule 1 to this Act which, together with other lands, were previously held in trust by the said New Plymouth Harbour Board for the same purposes as those for which the lands described in Schedule 1 to the principal Act were held by the said Board as aforesaid, were vested by the principal Act in His Majesty the King for the purposes of a public road: And whereas the lands described in Schedule 1 to this Act are now vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of New Plymouth (hereinafter referred to as the Council) as public streets but are no longer required as such: And whereas by the principal Act certain rights affecting Paritutu Centennial Park and also the lands described in Schedule 3 to this Act (excepting however that piece of land included in the said Schedule 3 having an area of twenty-five perches and four-tenths of a perch) including rights of ingress, egress, and way over and upon such lands were reserved to and vested in the said New Plymouth Harbour Board and are now vested in the Taranaki Harbours Board constituted by the Taranaki Harbours Act 1965 (the said Taranaki Harbours Board being hereinafter referred to as the Board), but such rights are no longer required by the Board which has agreed to their being cancelled: And whereas the Council, the Board, and Her Majesty the Queen acting by and through the Minister of Housing (hereinafter referred to as the Minister) have entered into an Agreement dated the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, a copy whereof is contained in Schedule 2 to this Act whereby, subject to the necessary statutory validation being obtained, the lands described in Schedule 1 to the principal Act (excluding however the lands described in Schedule 3 to this Act which are now included in the said Park but which are vested by this Act in the Board) together with the land described in Schedule 4 to this Act (which is now vested in the Board) are to be included in the said Park: And whereas it is further provided by the said Agreement that subject to such statutory validation as aforesaid the Board should pay to the Council in accordance with the provisions of the said Agreement the sum of fifty thousand dollars which shall be applied by the Council as hereinafter provided and that the Council should pay to the Minister in accordance with the said Agreement the sum of two thousand two hundred and ten dollars as compensation for loss of access:

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