The Short Title of this Act is “The Whangarei Drill-shed Act, 1888.”

The land described in the schedule hereto, and all buildings and erections thereon, are hereby vested for an estate in fee-simple in Thomas Viret Shepherd, Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the Auckland District of Volunteers; Arthur Thomas, of Whangarei, settler; John David McKenzie, of Whangarei, farmer; and Edward Williams, of Whangarei, saddler, as trustees, to hold the said land and buildings as a drill-shed for the use of the Whangarei Volunteers, subject to the provisions of an Act passed or intended to be passed during the present session of the General Assembly in Parliament, and which Act is shortly intituled, “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888.”