This Act may be cited as the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1942.

Whereas on the seventh day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, Limited, a duly incorporated company, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland a survey plan of the Town of Greenhithe Extension Number 9, numbered 20871: And whereas upon the depositing of such plan the reserves shown thereon became vested in the Crown pursuant to section 16 of the Land Act 1924: And whereas on such plan Lots 15, 26, 109, 121, 198, 225, 234, 247, 248, and 249, containing together an area of one acre two roods and thirty-five perches, more or less, were set apart as plantation reserves; Lots 108, 117, 120, and 178, containing together an area of four acres two roods three perches and one-tenth of a perch, more or less, were set apart as recreation reserves; and Lots 250 to 256 (inclusive) containing together an area of one acre one rood three perches and six-tenths of a perch, more or less, were set apart as foreshore reserves: And whereas the said company is the registered proprietor of all other lots shown on the said plan: And whereas it is desired to cancel the scheme of subdivision known as the Town of Greenhithe Extension Number 9, and it is equitable that the areas set apart as reserves as aforesaid should be revested in the said company: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, the reservations as aforesaid over Lots 15, 26, 108, 109, 117, 120, 121, 178, 198, 225, 234, and 247 to 256 (inclusive) on plan numbered 20871, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, are hereby revoked, and the Governor-General may by Warrant under his hand authorize the said District Land Registrar to issue to the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, Limited, a certificate of title in respect of the aforesaid lots.

Section thirty-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1941, is hereby amended as from the passing of that Act by adding to subsection three thereof the following words: “For all purposes connected with the raising and the securing of repayment of the said sum and interest thereon the Board and the Whangarei Harbour District shall be deemed to be a local authority and a district respectively within the meaning of the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926.”

Whereas the State Advances Superintendent is registered as the proprietor of an estate or interest of leasehold in the land hereinafter described: And whereas by subsection two of section five of the Finance Act 1937 [Repealed], the said estate or interest became the property of the Crown: And whereas the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand (in this section referred to as the Corporation) established under the State Advances Corporation Act 1934-35, has been administering the said property: And whereas the Corporation has entered into an agreement with Frederick Daniel Bartlett, of Cambridge, farmer, for the sale to him of the said property: And whereas the Corporation is not in a position to give title to the said property: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the said agreement is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

• (2) The Corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to execute a memorandum of transfer of the said estate or interest in the land hereinafter described to the said Frederick Daniel Bartlett in pursuance of such agreement, and the District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland shall, on application, register such transfer in the appropriate register.

• (3) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one acre, more or less, being Allotment 454 of the Town of Cambridge East, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 154, folio 18, Auckland Registry, and being the whole of the land comprised in memorandum of lease from the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Cambridge, the said lease being registered in the Auckland Land Registry under number 14617.

Whereas the land hereinafter described is reserved as an endowment for primary education: And whereas the said land is required for the purposes of a pilot and signal station, and it is desirable that it should be set apart for those purposes and vested in the Whangarei Harbour Board: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) The reservation as an endowment for primary education over the land hereinafter described is hereby revoked and the said land is hereby set apart as a reserve for the purposes of a pilot and signal station and vested in the Whangarei Harbour Board in trust for such purposes.

• (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Whangarei County, North Auckland Land District, situated in Block VIII, Ruakaka Survey District, containing by admeasurement fifty-one acres, more or less, being Allotment 71A, Manaia Parish, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 5, folio 43, Auckland Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 22/1249, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas the land hereinafter described is shown on the survey plan of the Village of Taupiri made in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four as a church site: And whereas the said land is the site of a church erected by the Church of England, and has been held by the Church authorities since the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five: And whereas no title to the said land has ever been issued, and it is deemed equitable that the said land should be vested in the Waikato Diocesan Trust Board: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) The land hereinafter described is hereby vested in the Waikato Diocesan Trust Board for an estate in fee-simple.

• (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Waikato County, Auckland Land District, situated in Block IV, Newcastle Survey District, containing by admeasurement one rood twenty-seven perches and eight-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Section 95, Village of Taupiri: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 22/4109C, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red (Auckland plan SO 31612).

Whereas the land hereinafter described is reserved as an endowment for primary education: And whereas the said land lies within the boundaries of the scenic park referred to in the Auckland Centennial Memorial Park Act 1941, and it is desirable that it should be vested in the Auckland Centennial Memorial Park Board established under the provisions of section three of that Act: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) The reservation as an endowment for primary education over the land hereinafter described is hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby vested in the Auckland Centennial Memorial Park Board, and shall be held and administered by that Board for the purposes of a scenic park under and subject to the provisions of the Auckland Centennial Memorial Park Act 1941.

• (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All those areas in the Waitemata County, North Auckland Land District, situated in Block IV, Waitakerei Survey District, containing together by admeasurement twenty-eight acres three roods thirty perches and three-tenths of a perch, more or less, being parts of the Middle portion of Allotment 57, Waitakerei Parish, and being parts of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 6, folio 82, Auckland Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 4/36, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red (North Auckland plan SO 854).

Whereas on the seventeenth day of October and the first day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-one, the Land Settlement Board (in this section referred to as the Board) established under the provisions of section thirty-nine of the Statutes Amendment Act 1941 [Repealed], when dealing with applications by certain lessees to acquire the fee-simple of the land held by them under leases issued under the provisions of section eight of the Small Farms Act 1932-33 [Repealed], determined that the price to be paid by the said lessees should be the then rental value of their leases: And whereas it is provided by section six of the Small Farms Amendment Act 1939 [Repealed], that the price at which a lessee may acquire the fee-simple of any land disposed of by way of lease under the provisions of section 8 of the Small Farms Act 1932-33 [Repealed], shall be the amount determined by the Board to be the unimproved value of such land as at the date of the acquisition of the fee-simple by the lessee: And whereas the prices determined by the Board as aforesaid (being the rental value in each case) were less than the unimproved value of the lands concerned as at the date of the acquisition of the fee-simple thereof, but nevertheless it was deemed that such prices were fair and equitable to both the lessees and the Crown: And whereas it is desirable that the Board's actions in that respect should be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The determinations by the Board as aforesaid that the prices at which the fee-simple of the said lands might be acquired should be less than the unimproved value of such lands as at the date of the acquisition of the fee-simple thereof are hereby validated and declared to have been lawful in all respects.

Whereas the land hereinafter described is a reserve subject to Part 2 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, and is known as the Globe Hill No 2 Domain: And whereas the said land is not used or likely to be required for the purpose of public recreation: And whereas the said land is completely surrounded by provisional State forest, and it is desirable that it should be brought under the provisions of the Forests Act 1921-22, so that it may be administered and dealt with in all respects as a portion of such forest: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, the reservation for the purpose of a public domain over the Globe Hill No 2 Domain as hereinafter described is hereby revoked and the said land is hereby set apart as provisional State forest under and subject to the provisions of the Forests Act 1921-22.

• (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement five acres and ten perches, more or less, and being Section 2, Block II, Waitahu Survey District: As the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/317, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas the Te Awamutu and Hamilton Borough Councils and the Waipa, Raglan, and Otorohanga County Councils (in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, referred to as the Councils) have joined with the Crown in the acquisition of the land hereinafter described: And whereas out of the total purchase-price of three thousand four hundred dollars the Councils provided two thousand seven hundred dollars in varying amounts as agreed upon between themselves and as more particularly set forth in a memorandum of agreement (in this section referred to as the agreement) made on the ninth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-two, a copy of which is deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under Number 5171 (Auckland): And whereas portion of the said land is in bush, and it has been arranged between the Crown and the Councils that such portion shall be set aside under the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908: And whereas it has been further arranged that the remainder of the said land shall be vested in the Te Awamutu Borough Council to be held in trust for itself and the other contributing local authorities for the purposes of afforestation and water-conservation and as a scenic reserve: And whereas the agreement provides for the management and administration of the land to be vested in the Te Awamutu Borough Council, for the appointment by the Councils of a committee of management, for payment by the Councils of the costs and expenses of such Committee, and for other matters incidental to the use and management of such land: And whereas it is desirable that the payments made by the Councils towards the purchase-price of the land hereinafter described should be validated: And whereas it is also desirable that the agreement should be validated, and that other provision should be made as hereinafter appears: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) The payments by the Councils towards the cost of acquisition of the land hereinafter described in the proportions set forth in the agreement are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

• (2) The agreement is hereby declared to be valid and binding in all respects and of full force and effect according to the tenor thereof, and the parties thereto shall be deemed to have been duly empowered to enter into and execute the same, and to have had and to possess full power to do all things necessary to give full force and effect to the same.

• (3) The Governor-General may by Order in Council vest such portion or portions of the land hereinafter described as he may think fit in the Te Awamutu Borough Council. The land so vested shall be held by the said Council in trust for itself and the other parties to the agreement for the purposes of afforestation and water-conservation and as a scenic reserve, and shall be managed, administered, and dealt with generally in accordance with the relevant provisions of the agreement.

• (4) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  Firstly, all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement three hundred and six acres three roods and eighteen perches, more or less, being Section 4, Block VII, Pirongia Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 786, folio 229, Auckland Registry.

  Secondly, all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement two hundred and ninety-four acres two roods and twenty-four perches, more or less, being part of Section 5, Block VII, Pirongia Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 788, folio 195, Auckland Registry.

  Thirdly, all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and fifty-one acres two roods and twenty perches, more or less, being part of Section 13, Block VII, Pirongia Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 737, folio 206, Auckland Registry.

Whereas by section fifty-nine of the Local Legislation Act 1930, the land described in subsection three hereof was vested in the Opotiki Hospital Board (in this section referred to as the Board) as an endowment without power of sale: And whereas the said land is not required and is not suitable for hospital purposes, and the Board has acquired the freehold of a more suitable area adjoining the hospital, being the land described in subsection four hereof: And whereas the Board desires to sell the said endowment and to retain the proceeds of such sale in partial repayment of its expenditure in the purchase of the freehold area: And whereas it is expedient that the Board should be authorized so to do, provided that the said freehold area is declared to be a public reserve for hospital purposes subject to the provisions of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act at any time after the gazetting of a resolution passed by the Board pursuant to section five of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, declaring the land described in subsection four hereof to be a public reserve for hospital purposes, the Board may sell the endowment land described in subsection three hereof by public auction, public tender, or private contract, and either in one lot or in subdivisions as the Board may in its discretion decide, freed and discharged from the trusts, reservations, and restrictions affecting the same.

• (2) Any sale of the land or of any subdivision thereof authorized by the last preceding subsection may be for cash or upon such terms as the Board may in its discretion decide, and the net proceeds from such sale shall be retained by the Board as a partial repayment of its expenditure in the purchase of the land described in subsection four hereof.

• (3) The endowment land which the Board is authorized to sell as aforesaid is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Gisborne Land District, situated in the Borough of Opotiki, containing by admeasurement two acres three roods twenty-eight perches and forty-nine hundredths of a perch, more or less, being Lots 1 to 12, both inclusive, of a subdivision of Allotments 365, 366, and 411 of Section 2, Town of Opotiki, as shown on Land Transfer Plan 9662 (Auckland), deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Gisborne: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 1912/732A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

• (4) The freehold land acquired by the Board is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Gisborne Land District, situated in Block II, Opotiki Survey District, containing by admeasurement eight acres two roods twenty-seven perches and five-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Lot 4, DP 11064, part of Allotment 384, Waiotahi Parish, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 70, folio 230, Gisborne Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 1912/732C, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

• (5) Section twenty-eight of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1936, is hereby repealed.

Whereas the land hereinafter described is reserved as an endowment for primary education: And whereas it is desirable that the said land should be set apart for municipal purposes and vested in the Corporation of the City of Auckland: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) The reservation as an endowment for primary education over the land hereinafter described is hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby set apart as a reserve for municipal purposes and vested in the Corporation of the City of Auckland in trust for such purposes.

• (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the City of Auckland, North Auckland Land District, situated in Block III, Titirangi Survey District, containing by admeasurement three roods and twelve perches, more or less, being Allotments 1 and 2 of Section 2, Whau Township North, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 5, folio 39, Auckland Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 20/1072, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Whereas the land hereinafter described is vested in the Crown partly as an endowment for primary education and partly as an endowment for secondary education: And whereas the said land carries native bush which should be preserved, and it is therefore desirable that the land should be reserved as a scenic reserve under and subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act the existing reservation over the land hereinafter described is hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby declared to be a scenic reserve under and subject to the provisions of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908.

• (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Rodney County, North Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks I and II, Pakiri Survey District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and two acres and twenty-nine perches, more or less, being Lots 1, 2, and 3 on the plan numbered 28877, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, being Allotments S 26, SW Mid 29, 89, and Parts 28, Arai Parish, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificates of title, Volume 6, folio 193, and Volume 715, folio 294, and part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 5, folio 82, Auckland Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 4/841, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Section two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1932, is hereby amended as from the passing of that Act by omitting the description set forth in subsection 2, and substituting the following description:—

Whereas the land hereinafter described is reserved as an endowment for primary education: And whereas it is desirable that the reservation over the said land should be cancelled and that the said land should be set apart for the purposes of Part 3 of the Coal-mines Act 1925: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) The reservation as an endowment for primary education over the land hereinafter described is hereby revoked and the said land is hereby declared to be set apart for the purposes of Part 3 of the Coal-mines Act 1925.

• (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:—

  All that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement three hundred and ninety-four acres and one rood, more or less, being parts of Section 1, Block XVI, Waro Survey District, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 62, folio 48, Taranaki Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered 7997, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth.

Whereas the land firstly hereinafter described, being portion of Rural Section 541, District of Mandeville, is vested in His Majesty the King for railway purposes, subject, however, to the rights of the owners and occupiers for the time being of other parts of the said section abutting on the said land to use the same as a public road: And whereas the land secondly hereinafter described has been used for many years as a public street subject to the right of His Majesty to use the same for railway purposes and is now in fact a public street subject to that right: And whereas the said lands have, subject to the use thereof for railway purposes, for some time past been maintained by the Rangiora Borough Council as a street: And whereas by an agreement dated the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-two, and made between His Majesty the King of the one part and the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Rangiora (in this section referred to as the Corporation) of the other part (a copy of which is deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington and numbered LO 449) it was agreed that the land firstly hereinafter described should be vested in the Corporation as a street, subject, nevertheless, to the reservation to His Majesty of all necessary rights for the use and maintenance of all railway-lines now in existence or that may hereafter be constructed on the lands firstly and secondly hereinafter described: And whereas it is expedient and desirable to make the provision hereinafter appearing for the full and effectual carrying-out of the terms of the said agreement: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) The said agreement is hereby declared to be valid and binding in all respects and to have full force and effect according to the tenor thereof, and the parties thereto shall be deemed to have been duly empowered to enter into and execute the same and to have power to do all things, including the making of further agreements, which may be deemed necessary to give full force and effect to the said agreement.

• (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, or in the Public Works Act 1928, or in any other Act, the land firstly hereinafter described is hereby vested in the Corporation as a street.

• (3) All railway-lines now constructed and all lines hereafter constructed upon or along the lands firstly and secondly hereinafter described shall be deemed to form part of a Government railway:

  Provided that the provisions of section 8(1) Railway Safety and Corridor Management Act, shall not apply with respect to any such railway-lines.

• (4) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Canterbury is hereby empowered and directed to call in and endorse such titles, to make such entries in the Register, and generally to do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

• (5) The lands to which this section relates are particularly described as follows:—

  Firstly, all that area in the Borough of Rangiora, Canterbury Land District, containing one rood and ten perches, more or less, being part of Rural Section 541, and being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 9, folio 94, Canterbury Registry.

  Secondly, all that area in the Borough of Rangiora, Canterbury Land District, containing two perches and six-tenths of a perch, more or less, being formerly part of Rural Section 890 and now portion of a public street known as Blackett Street.

  As the same are delineated on the plan numbered 7472, deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Christchurch, and thereon coloured purple and grey respectively, a copy of which plan is also deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington and numbered LO 6933.

Whereas the preamble to the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act 1877, and sections five, ten, and seventeen of that Act and the Schedule to that Act were repealed by the Statutes Repeal Act 1907: And whereas doubts have arisen concerning the title to certain land owing to the repeal of the said sections ten and seventeen and the said Schedule: And whereas it is desirable that the said sections ten and seventeen, and the said Schedule should be revived: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

Sections ten and seventeen of the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Act 1877, and the Schedule to that Act are hereby revived, and those sections and that Schedule shall continue in force and shall be deemed to have been and to have remained in force at all times since the passing of that Act as if they had never been repealed.

Whereas the lands hereinafter described comprise a piece of primary-education endowment and portion of the bed of the Huatoki Stream: And whereas it is desirable that the said lands should be set apart for recreation purposes and vested in the Corporation of the Borough of New Plymouth: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

• (1) All reservations and other restrictions, if any, heretofore affecting the lands hereinafter described are hereby revoked and the said lands are hereby reserved for recreation purposes and vested in the Corporation of the Borough of New Plymouth in trust for such purposes.

• (2) The lands to which this section relates are particularly described as follows:—

  All those areas in the Town of New Plymouth, Taranaki Land District, containing together by admeasurement thirty-three perches and four-tenths of a perch, more or less, being parts of Sections 821 and 822 containing twenty-five perches and seven-tenths of a perch, being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 65, folio 228, Taranaki Registry, and part of the bed of the Huatoki Stream adjoining Sections 2383, 821, and 822, Town of New Plymouth, containing seven perches and seven-tenths of a perch: as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 16/2505D, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red (New Plymouth plan SO 7646).