WHEREAS by deed of conveyance dated the twentieth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, made between Thomas Buddle, William Scott Wilson, and Joseph Liston Wilson, trustees under the will of William Chisholm Wilson, late of Auckland, newspaper proprietor, deceased, of the one part, and the Auckland Harbour Board of the other part, the said Thomas Buddle, William Scott Wilson, and Joseph Liston Wilson conveyed to the Auckland Harbour Board all that piece of land in the Provincial District of Auckland containing by admeasurement four acres and twenty perches, more or less, and being part of allotment number thirty-two and part of allotment number thirty-three of section two of the Parish of Takapuna, County of Eden, together with all riparian rights and rights of access to and from the Waitemata Harbour to and from said allotment number thirty-three, or any part thereof of said section two as may extend along or be parallel with a road proposed to be laid out along and upon the foreshore:

And whereas, in consideration of the surrender of such riparian rights and rights of access as aforesaid, it was by the said deed covenanted and agreed that in the event of the Harbour Board reclaiming any portion of the foreshore fronting said allotment thirty-three and laying out and constructing a roadway thereon, the said Auckland Harbour Board should, as soon thereafter as practicable, use their best endeavours to obtain power, by legislative enactment, to enable the Auckland Harbour Board to convey to the said Thomas Buddle, William Scott Wilson, and Joseph Liston Wilson, their heirs or assigns, all the land lying between the northern side of the said road so laid out and constructed as aforesaid and the southern boundary of said allotment thirty-three, thereby giving a road-frontage for a water-frontage, and immediately upon obtaining such authority should convey to the said Thomas Buddle, William Scott Wilson, and Joseph Liston Wilson the said last-mentioned piece of land: And whereas the foreshore fronting said allotment thirty-three has been reclaimed from the sea by the Auckland Harbour Board, and the said Thomas Buddle, William Scott Wilson, and Joseph Liston Wilson have requested the Auckland Harbour Board to obtain power and authority to convey the said piece of land:

And whereas by deed dated the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and made between the Auckland Harbour Board of the one part, and the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Devonport of the other part, the Auckland Harbour Board, in consideration of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the said borough permitting the Auckland Harbour Board to lay out certain roads in Shoal Bay, adjoining the Borough of Devonport, without forming or contributing to the cost of formation of such roads, and in lieu of such formation or contribution, agreed to convey to the said Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses all those pieces or parcels of land described in the Second Schedule hereto: And whereas it is desirable that the Auckland Harbour Board should be empowered to make the conveyances hereinbefore mentioned: