• Preamble

  WHEREAS under The Public Reserves Act 1854, the piece of land described in Schedule 1 hereto was, amongst others, on or about the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, granted by the then Governor of the Colony of New Zealand to the Superintendent of the Province of Southland and his successors as sites for Provincial Government buildings: And whereas under the powers contained in The Invercargill Athenaeum Reserve Management Ordinance 1871, the piece of land described in Schedule 2 hereto was transferred to and vested in the Invercargill Athenaeum: And whereas it is desired to vest the piece of land described in Schedule 1 hereto, except such portion as is described in Schedule 2 hereto, in the General Government of the Colony as the site for public offices: And also to exchange the piece of land described in Schedule 3 hereto, being part of the lands vested as aforesaid in the Invercargill Athenaeum, for the piece of land described in Schedule 4 hereto.

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