Whereas by memorandum of lease dated the twenty-eighth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and registered in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin under Number 5653, the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Kaitangata (in this section referred to as the Corporation) leased all that parcel of land situate in the Town of Kaitangata containing fourteen perches and three-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Allotment 5 on plan of subdivision of Section 7, Block 31, Plan Number 812, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, Dunedin, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 132, folio 118, Otago Registry, to George Middlemass and David Middlemass, both of Kaitangata, builders, as tenants in common in equal shares for a term of twenty-one years from the eighth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, with a perpetual right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years: And whereas by a certain memorandum of lease bearing date the twenty-eighth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and registered in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 5654, the Corporation leased all that parcel of land situate in the Town of Kaitangata containing fourteen perches and three-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Allotment 1 on plan of subdivision of Section 7, Block 31, Plan Number 812, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, Dunedin, to the said George Middlemass and the said David Middlemass, as tenants in common in equal shares for a term of twenty-one years from the eighth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, with a perpetual right of renewal for further terms of twenty-one years: And whereas by a certain memorandum of transfer bearing date the twenty-second day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and registered in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 88168, the said George Middlemass transferred all his estate and interest in the aforesaid leases and in the lands affected thereby to the said David Middlemass: And whereas by a certain memorandum of transfer bearing date the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty, and registered in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 106530, the said David Middlemass transferred his estate and interest in all that parcel of land situate in the Town of Kaitangata containing fourteen perches and three-tenths of a perch, more or less, being part of Allotments 1 and 5 on plan of subdivision of Section 7, Block 31, Plan Number 812, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, Dunedin, and being part of the lands comprised in certificate of title, Volume 132, folio 118, Otago Registry, and part of the land comprised in the said memoranda of leases, Registered Numbers 5653 and 5654, to Henry Owens, of Kaitangata, miner: And whereas by a certain memorandum of transfer bearing date the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and registered in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 117981, the said David Middlemass transferred all that parcel of land situate in the Town of Kaitangata containing fourteen perches and three-tenths of a perch, more or less, being Part of Allotments 1 and 5 on plan of subdivision of Section 7, Block 31, Plan Number 812, deposited in the Land Transfer Office, Dunedin, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 132, folio 118, Otago Registry, and being the balance of the land comprised in the said memoranda of leases, Registered Numbers 5653 and 5654, to James Fitzgerald Owens, of Kaitangata, billiard-saloon proprietor: And whereas the said Henry Owens and the said James Fitzgerald Owens inadvertently omitted to take the necessary steps before the expiry of the said leases to obtain new leases of the land leased to them: And whereas the Kaitangata Borough Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is desirous of granting to the said Henry Owens and the said James Fitzgerald Owens new leases of the lands previously vested in the said Henry Owens and the said James Fitzgerald Owens respectively in a form approved by the Council, and providing for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of twenty-one years: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(1) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to grant to the said Henry Owens a new lease of the lands previously held by him as lessee for a term of twenty-one years from the date of the expiry of the term of the said memoranda of leases, Registered Numbers 5653 and 5654, such new lease to be in a form approved by the Council and to provide for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of twenty-one years.
(2) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to grant to the said James Fitzgerald Owens a new lease of the lands previously held by him as lessee for a term of twenty-one years from the date of the expiry of the term of the said memoranda of leases, Registered Numbers 5653 and 5654, such new lease to be in a form approved by the Council and to provide for perpetual rights of renewal for successive periods of twenty-one years.
(3) The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to execute all such deeds and documents and do all such other things as may be necessary for the effective granting of the new leases to the said lessees.