WHEREAS the Invercargill Athenæum is a corporation incorporated by an Ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council entitled the Invercargill Athenæum Ordinance, 1871: And whereas it is desirable that the said Corporation should now be dissolved, and all the property of the same vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill (hereinafter called the Corporation):

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Invercargill Athenæum Act, 1916.

2 Athenæum vested in Borough Council.

Upon the coming into operation of this Act all the property, real and personal, of the Invercargill Athenæum (including the lands in the Schedule hereto) shall vest in the Corporation; and all the liabilities and engagements of the Invercargill Athenæum, and all proceedings pending by or against the said the Invercargill Athenæum, shall respectively be liabilities and engagements of and proceedings to be carried on by or against the Corporation.

3 Separate account to be kept, &c.

All rents and profits received by the Invercargill Borough Council from the said lands shall be kept in a separate account, to be called “the Library Account,” and shall be applied from time to time in the purchase of books and periodicals, and otherwise in and towards the maintenance, staffing, and equipment of the Invercargill Athenæum Library and Reading-room, or of a reading-room and reference and lending library in the Town of Invercargill, and in providing or acquiring any lands or buildings necessary or desirable for the purpose of such library.

4 Borough Council may make by-laws.

The Invercargill Borough Council may make by-laws providing for the management and regulation of the athenæum library and reading-room or other library and reading-room as aforesaid, and providing the terms on which such athenæum library reading-room shall be available to the public, and may from time to time alter and revoke such by-laws.

5 Leasing-powers.

The Corporation shall have, in respect of the lands and buildings vested in it by this Act, the powers of leasing conferred on it by Part XIX of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, or any Act passed in substitution thereof, such powers to be in addition to all other leasing-powers exercisable by it.

6 Athenæum and library under Part XXIX of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908.

The athenæum and library vested in the Corporation by this Act shall be deemed to be an athenæum and library under Part XXIX of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and the Corporation shall, in respect of such athenæum and library have the powers conferred by the said Part XXIX in addition to the express powers conferred by this Act.

7 Land in Schedule to be transferred to Corporation.

The District Land Registrar at Invercargill shall, on production to him of a copy of this Act, register a transmission to the Corporation of the lands firstly, secondly, and thirdly described in the Schedule hereto, and the Registrar of Deeds at Invercargill shall register a copy of this Act against the lands fourthly described in the said Schedule.

8 Repeal.

The Invercargill Athenæum Ordinance, 1871, is hereby repealed, and the Corporation of the Invercargill Athenæum is hereby dissolved.

9 Commencement of Act.

This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

Schedule

FIRSTLY, all that parcel of land, containing 19 perches, more or less, situated in the Town of Invercargill, being part of a Government reserve: bounded on the north by a part of the said Government reserve, 1326 links; on the east by Dee Street, 101•5 links; towards the south by Tay Street, 134•4 links; and on the west by a part of the Government reserve aforesaid, 83•5 links; and being all the land comprised in Crown grant registered in Register-book, Volume 13, folio 218, in the Land Transfer Office, at Invercargill.

Secondly, all that parcel of land situated in the Provincial District of Otago, containing 446 acres 3 roods 27 perches, more or less, being Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, Block VI, on the Crown-grant record map of the Campbelltown Hundred, and being all the land comprised in Crown grant registered in Register book, Volume 3, folio 52, in the Land Transfer Office, at Invercargill.

Thirdly, all that parcel of land situated in the Provincial District of Otago, containing 1,097 acres and 32 perches, more or less, being Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, Block X, and Sections 1, 2, 24, and 25, Block XI, on the Crown-grant record map of the Invercargill Hundred, and being all the land in Crown grant registered in Register-book, Volume 81, folio 97, in the Land Transfer Office, at Invercargill.

Fourthly, all that parcel of land situated in the Town of Invercargill, containing 25 perches, be the same a little more or less, being part of the land formerly known as the Reserve for Public Buildings: bounded on the north by Esk Street, 87 ft. 6 in or thereabouts; on the south by portion of Government reserve, 87 ft. 6 in or thereabouts; on the east by Dee Street, 66 ft or thereabouts; and on the west by portion of the said reserve, 66 ft or thereabouts.

Invercargill Athenæum Act 1916