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Parnell Reserve Act 1878

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Preamble.

Short Title.

Lands vested in Parnell Corporation.

Certificate of title to issue for same.

Corporation to hold land for town hall, and Board of Education to hold land for school site.

Schedule

Parnell Reserve Act 1878

Local Act		1878 No 43
Date of assent		29 October 1878

	Title
	Preamble.
2	Lands vested in Parnell Corporation.
	Schedule

An Act to transfer a piece of Land, situate on Parnell Rise, at Auckland, to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Parnell, and to the Board of the Education District of Auckland, for certain Public Purposes.

Preamble.

WHEREAS the parcels of land described in the First and Second Parts of the Schedule hereto were, by Crown grant of date the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, granted to the Superintendent of Auckland as an endowment for or towards the maintenance and support of lunatic and other asylums within the Province of Auckland; and the said lands are no longer required for the purposes aforesaid:

And whereas the parcel of land described in the Third Part of the Schedule hereto is an unappropriated piece of Crown land in the midst of the lands described in the Second Part of the said Schedule, and is required to complete the area of the last-mentioned lands:

And whereas the said several parcels of land are now vested in Her Majesty the Queen by virtue of the provisions of “The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,” and have not in any way been alienated or disposed of:

And whereas one of the said parcels of land, numbered ninety-five on the map of the City and Suburbs of Auckland, is a suitable site for a town hall, and the remainder of the said parcels of land are a suitable site for a public school:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Parnell Reserve Act, 1878.”

2 Lands vested in Parnell Corporation.

The land described in the First Part of the Schedule hereto is hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Parnell, in the Provincial District of Auckland, discharged and released from all trusts affecting the same or relating thereto.

Lands vested in the Board of Education.

The lands described in the Second and Third Parts of the aforesaid Schedule are hereby vested in the Board of the Education District of Auckland.

3 Certificate of title to issue for same.

The person having custody of the hereinabove mentioned Crown grant to the Superintendent of Auckland, of date the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, shall, on application made to him in that behalf, deliver to the above-mentioned Corporation of the Borough of Parnell the said grant; and, on presentation of the said grant, together with a copy of this Act, to the District Land Registrar for Auckland, the said officer shall issue to the said Corporation a certificate of title for the land described in the First Part of the Schedule hereto, and to the Board of the Education District of Auckland a certificate of title for the remainder of the lands described in the Second and Third Parts of the Schedule hereto.

4 Corporation to hold land for town hall, and Board of Education to hold land for school site.

The Corporation of the Borough of Parnell aforesaid shall hold the said land in the First Part of the Schedule as a site for a town hall, and the Board of the Education District of Auckland shall hold the several parcels described in the Second and Third Parts of the said Schedule as a site for a public school.

Schedule

First Part

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, being Allotment 95 of Section numbered one (1) of the Suburbs of Auckland, containing fourteen (14) perches, more or less, situate in the Parish of Waitemata, in the Borough of Parnell.

Second Part

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement one (1) acre two (2) roods, more or less, situate in the Parish of Waitemata, in the Borough of Parnell, and being Allotments numbers ninety-six (96), ninety-seven (97), ninety-eight (98), ninety-nine (99), one hundred (100), one hundred and one (101), one hundred and two (102), one hundred and three (103), one hundred and four (104), one hundred and five (105), one hundred and seven (107), one hundred and nine (109), one hundred and ten (110), one hundred and twelve (112), one hundred and thirteen (113), one hundred and fourteen (114), and one hundred and fifteen (115), of Section numbered one (1) of the Suburbs of Auckland.

Third Part

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland aforesaid, containing by admeasurement eighteen (18) perches, more or less, situate in the Parish of Waitemata and Borough of Parnell aforesaid, and being Allotment numbered one hundred and eleven (111) of Section numbered one (1) of the Suburbs of Auckland. Bounded towards the North-east by Parnell Rise, fifty (50) feet; towards the South-east by Allotment No. 112, ninety (90) feet six (6) inches; towards the South-west by Allotment No. 99, fifty-three (53) feet; and towards the North-west by Allotment No. 110, one hundred and seven (107) feet: be all the aforesaid distances more or less.

Parnell Reserve Act 1878