WHEREAS lots number eighty and number eighty-one of section number two, in the Parish of Pukekohe West, each containing ten acres, more or less, were allotted to James McCabe, senior, and James McCabe, junior, under “The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,” and the said lands having been abandoned by the aforesaid persons were resumed by Her Majesty as derelict lands under the authority of paragraph eight to the Schedule of “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885,” and were subsequently, in error, set apart as a recreation reserve, and vested in the Pukekohe Domain Board, under “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” who granted a lease of the said reserve subject to certain conditions for the fencing and improving thereof:

And whereas the above-named persons have petitioned Parliament for the restoration of the said lands, stating in their petition that they never abandoned the said lands, that their absence was temporary only and with the consent of the authorities, and that they proposed to resume their occupation thereof, and the Waste Lands Committee have reported that they considered their claim good; and it is expedient to make provision for restoring the said lands to them: