WHEREAS by deed of trust dated the eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and eleven, a copy of which is deposited in the Land Registry Office at Wellington as No. 222, made between David Peat, of Wanganui, farmer, of the one part, and the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui, of the other part, the lands particularly described in the First Schedule to the Wanganui City Council Vesting and Empowering Act, 1924, were declared to be vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui as from the said eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and eleven, upon trust as a place for the recreation and enjoyment of the children attending the primary schools of the said Borough of Wanganui, in the way of affording them recreation, enjoyment, pleasure, and instruction, and other similar benefits and advantages of that nature, as the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui should from time to time consider best: And whereas by section three of the said Act, part of the said lands—namely, the lands particularly described in the Second Schedule to the said Act—were as from the date of the passing of the Act, and are now, vested in the Corporation of the City of Wanganui for an estate in fee-simple for the purposes of public recreation and instruction freed and forever discharged from all or any trusts created or intended to be created by such deed of trust: And whereas by section four of the said Act authority was given for the issue to the Corporation of the City of Wanganui of a title under the Land Transfer Act, 1915, for the lands particularly described in the said Second Schedule, but no such title has been issued: And whereas by section five of the Wanganui City Council Vesting and Empowering Act, 1924, the residue of the lands described in the said First Schedule—namely, the lands described in the Third Schedule to the said Act—were as from the date of the passing of the Act, and are now, vested in the Corporation of the City of Wanganui as a place for the recreation, enjoyment, pleasure, and instruction of the children of the inhabitants for the time being of the City of Wanganui: And whereas by section six of the said Act the lands particularly described in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act were declared to be set aside as from the date of the passing of the said Act to be held by the Corporation of the City of Wanganui as a place for the recreation, enjoyment, pleasure, and instruction of the children of the inhabitants for the time being of the City of Wanganui: And whereas it is desirable that the lands referred to in the said deed of trust be held upon the trusts contained in the deed and that certain of the lands described in the said Fourth Schedule be held by the Corporation for the purposes for which it was held prior to the passing of the said Act: