WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule form part of certain sections which, on the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, were granted to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in trust for the establishment and maintenance of a University in the City of Dunedin, in the said province, and of public schools in different parts of the province, and for the general advancement of education in the said province; and whereas the said lands, as described in the Schedule, are required for a public cemetery, and have for several years been used as such; and whereas “The Education Reserves Act, 1877,” provides that education reserves should vest in School Commissioners; and whereas the said Act also provides that the said education reserves should be apportioned for the purposes of primary and secondary education; and whereas the lands described in the Schedule have been apportioned for the purposes of primary education; and whereas the said School Commissioners have no power to set aside the said lands as a public cemetery; and whereas it is desirable that the said lands should cease to form part of the said education reserves, and should be set aside as a public cemetery: