• Preamble

  WHEREAS the reserve known as One-Tree Hill, situate between Auckland and Onehunga, and consisting originally of about one hundred and forty-one acres and thirty perches, was, from about the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight to the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, open as a commonage under The Crown Lands Ordinance 1849, for grazing of stock of the Hundred of Onehunga and the Epsom District, but was taken possession of by the Colonial Government during the Taranaki and Waikato wars and enclosed and occupied as a paddock for military purposes: And whereas, on the occasion of the award to Mr James Busby in settlement of his land claims, this reserve, together with a number of other parcels of land throughout the Province of Auckland, was, by a Proclamation of his Honour Superintendent Williamson, made a Provincial Government reserve, and was subsequently included as an educational reserve in the Schedule of The Common Schools Act 1869, of the Auckland Provincial Legislature, and granted under that Act: And whereas it is desirable that so much of the said reserve as has been so granted as aforesaid, and is described in the Schedule of this Act, should now be restored to the original purpose of a reserve for public recreation, and placed under the control of the Board hereinafter mentioned: And whereas a portion of the original One-Tree Hill Reserve, comprising fifteen acres and twenty perches, has been recently made a recreation reserve, and the management thereof delegated by Order in Council of the eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, to a Board consisting of the several persons therein specified and hereinafter mentioned, namely, the member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Manukau, the Mayor of Onehunga, the Chairmen of the One-Tree Hill, Mount Roskill, and Epsom Highway Districts, William Gardner, and Alexander Aitken; and it is desirable that the land herein referred to, and described in the Schedule of this Act, should be brought under the management of the said Board:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—