• Preamble

  WHEREAS the two acres of land described in the Schedule hereto were, by Crown grant dated the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, vested in the Superintendent of Auckland, in trust for educational purposes: And whereas the said lands were, by The Education Boards Act 1876, vested in the Education Board of the Provincial District of Auckland: And whereas, by The Onehunga Endowments Act 1877, it was enacted that the said lands might be surrendered by the Board of Education to the Onehunga Borough Council, upon the Board being satisfied either that such allotments were reserved from sale on account of their contiguity to the public springs of the borough, or on being satisfied that the public interests require that these allotments should be constituted a municipal reserve for water purposes; but no such surrender was made by the Education Board: And whereas the said Board is now incompetent to deal with the matter, inasmuch as the said lands are now vested in the School Commissioners for the Auckland Provincial District, in pursuance of the provisions of The Education Reserves Act 1877: And whereas the said Commissioners have recently proposed to lease the said lands in building allotments for a term of forty-two years, whereby access to the springs known as Bycroft's Springs, through the said lands, would be cut off, and the said springs might be polluted to the injury of the public at large: And whereas, in order to prevent such consequences, it is desirable that these lands should be set aside as a reserve for watering purposes for the public generally, and other lands of equivalent value vested in the said Commissioners in exchange for the said lands, as hereinafter expressed:

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