All that bridge constructed over the River Avon, in the Province of Canterbury, known as “The New Brighton Bridge,” and the approaches thereto, standing upon all that piece or parcel of land situated on the River Avon, in the Christchurch District, and commencing on the southern boundary of the Road Reserve on the north bank of the said River Avon, at a point situated seven hundred and two links distant from and to the westward of its intersection with the road forming the eastern boundary of Rural Section number three thousand and ninety-six, and continuing thence westward a distance of one hundred and seven links along the southern boundary of the said road on the north bank of the River Avon; and thence at an angle of one hundred and nine degrees thirty-six minutes across the said River Avon for a distance of two hundred and ninety links to the termination of a road dedicated by deed to the Superintendent of Canterbury by Peter Kerr, the fourteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; and thence along the north-eastern boundary of the said dedicated road a distance of one hundred links in a south-easterly direction; and thence at an angle of ninety degrees in a north-easterly direction a distance of three hundred and twenty links to the starting point; and containing by admeasurement one rood and nine perches, be the same a little more or less.