WHEREAS by the Auckland Harbour Bridge Empowering Act, 1931, the Auckland Harbour Bridge Company, Limited, was empowered to erect and maintain a bridge across the Auckland Harbour and to impose and collect tolls for the use of the bridge: And whereas the company has not been able to proceed with the actual construction of the bridge and it is expedient that the work should be undertaken as a public work under the Public Works Act, 1928: And whereas, by an agreement dated the twenty-eighth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, to which His Majesty the King (acting by and through the Minister of Works) and the company were parties, the company relinquished all the authority, rights, and privileges conferred on it by the Auckland Harbour Bridge Empowering Act, 1931, and agreed to furnish and deliver to the Minister of Works, for such use as he might think desirable in connection with the said work, all documentary and other information obtained, prepared, assembled, or calculated by or for it in contemplation of its intended exercise of any such authority, rights, and privileges, and to transfer to His Majesty the King all its interests and rights in property, whether real or personal, excepting cash in hand or at bank, and office furniture: And whereas it is expedient that the Auckland Harbour Bridge Empowering Act, 1931, should be repealed: