Whereas by deed of trust Number 29623 dated 16 September 1903 the executors of the will of Thomas Hempton conveyed to certain trustees as the site for the Hempton Hall all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 2 roods and sixteen-hundredths of a perch, more or less, being the north-eastern part of Section 62 on the public map of the Town of Okato and all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 126, folio 154, Taranaki Registry, upon trust for the use and benefit of the inhabitants within the limits of the Okato Road District or any smaller district in which the said land is included:
And whereas by memorandum of transfer registered in the Land Registry Office at New Plymouth as Number 57129, Carlin Gill and Alexander Gregory Knight, as surviving trustees, appointed John Leo Power, Arthur John Smith, Ernest Bowyer Corbett, Clifford Clyde Eustace, Lawrence Carey, Laurence O’Sullivan, and Lawrence David Hickford as trustees:
And whereas the said John Leo Power and Lawrence Carey have since died, and the said Arthur John Smith, Ernest Bowyer Corbett, Clifford Clyde Eustace, Laurence O’Sullivan, and Lawrence David Hickford (in this section referred to as the present trustees) are now the surviving trustees:
And whereas the said Okato Road District has been merged in the County of Taranaki:
And whereas the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Taranaki (in this section referred to as the Corporation) is taking under the Public Works Act 1928 as a site for a fire station that part of the said land containing 38 perches and sixty-eight hundredths of a perch, more or less, as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, at New Plymouth, under Number 8718:
And whereas the present trustees desire to vest the balance of the said land containing by admeasurement 1 rood 1 perch and forty-eight hundredths of a perch, more or less, in the Corporation for the purposes of the said trust, but the Corporation is not authorized to accept lands on the terms of the said trust:
And whereas the Corporation is prepared to accept the balance of the said land as a site for a public hall pursuant to section 198 of the Counties Act 1920:
Be it therefore enacted as follows: