Corporation authorized to grant lease of recreation reserve for deep-sea-fishing purposes at Island Bay.

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Wellington City Empowering Act 1934

Local Act		1934 No 14
Date of assent		13 November 1934

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Definitions.
3	Corporation authorized to grant lease of recreation reserve for deep-sea-fishing purposes at Island Bay.
4	Power to make by-laws.
	Schedule

An Act to authorize the Wellington City Corporation to lease Portion of the Recreation Reserve at Island Bay to Deep-sea Fishermen for Purposes connected with Fishing.

BE IT 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 Wellington City Empowering Act, 1934.

2 Definitions.

“Corporation” means the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington.

“Council” means the Wellington City Council.

3 Corporation authorized to grant lease of recreation reserve for deep-sea-fishing purposes at Island Bay.

(1)

The Corporation is hereby authorized to lease the land described in the Schedule hereto from time to time to any partnership, association, or company of deep-sea fishermen carrying on a fishing industry in the sea adjacent to Island Bay in the City of Wellington for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, for purposes connected with the disposal and marketing of sea-fish, at such rent, and upon such conditions, limitations, and restrictions as the Council shall in its absolute discretion think fit.

(2)

Every such lease shall contain the following covenants:—

(a)

That the lessee shall not assign without the consent of the Corporation, and that such consent may be withheld by the Corporation on any grounds whatsoever that the Corporation thinks fit:

(b)

That the lessee shall not cause or permit any nuisance to arise in connection with the leased premises:

(c)

That the lessee (if a company or association of deep-sea fishermen) will permit any fisherman operating from Island Bay to become a member of the association and to use such premises on the same terms on which members of such association are from time to time permitted to use the premises.

(3)

Every such lease shall contain a provision enabling the Council to re-enter on breach of any of the covenants in subsection two hereof.

4 Power to make by-laws.

The Council may make, under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, by-laws to regulate and control the operations of fishermen on the beaches, foreshore, and sea-front at or near Island Bay, and prevent nuisances arising from any such operations.

Schedule

All that piece of land situate in the City of Wellington, containing 1 rood 4 perches, be the same a little more or less, being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 428, folio 133, bounded as follows: Starting at Block II, Standard Survey of the City of Wellington, situate at the intersection of Trent Street and Brighton Street; thence on a bearing of 153° 41′ 10″, for a distance of 749·33 links; thence on a bearing of 193° 13′ 30″, for a distance of 46·81 links, to the point of commencement; thence along the boundary of the Esplanade on a bearing of 147° 20′, for a distance of 75 links; on a bearing of 145° 47′, for a distance of 114·97 links; and on a bearing of 117° 25′, for a distance of 27 links; thence on a bearing of 208° 35′ 20″, for a distance of 356 links, to mean high-water mark; thence generally in a northerly direction along mean high-water mark to a point on a bearing of 202° 50′ and at a distance of 35 links from the point of commencement; and thence on a bearing of 22° 50′, for a distance of 35 links, to the point of commencement: as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, marked “Proclamation 2,699”, and thereon coloured red.

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