• Preamble

  WHEREAS under the provisions of The Palmerston North Reserves Act 1879, the Governor was authorised to issue a Crown grant granting to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Palmerston North all that piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule A hereto, upon trust for the purposes or benefit of a hospital: And whereas in pursuance of such recited Act a Crown grant was accordingly issued: And whereas by the thirty-second paragraph of the Schedule to The Special Powers and Contracts Act 1884, the Governor was authorised to grant to the Borough of Palmerston North all that piece or parcel of land described in Schedule B hereto, to be held by the Borough Council as an endowment under the provisions of The Municipal Corporations Act 1876, and Acts amending the same; and in pursuance of such authority a grant was accordingly issued: And whereas by the twenty-ninth paragraph of the Schedule to The Special Powers and Contracts Act 1885, the Governor was empowered, by notice in the Gazette, to authorise the Borough Council of Palmerston North to sell by public auction, after not less than three months' public notice as therein mentioned, all those the pieces or parcels of land described in Schedules A and B hereto; the money to be derived from the sale of such lands to be expended by the Borough Council for acquiring a suitable site for a hospital, and in the erection of a building thereon: And whereas the Borough Council sold the said lands or certain parts thereof by public auction, but without giving the prescribed three months' public notice: And whereas by The Palmerston North Hospital Lands Sales Validation Act 1891, the said sales were validated: And whereas the whole of the land described in Schedule B hereto was sold and conveyed to the purchasers: And whereas the whole of the land described in Schedule A hereto was sold, but upon deferred payments: And whereas the sales of sub-allotments three, four, five, six, seven, nine, and ten of the land so comprised in the said Schedule A hereto have not yet been completed by conveyances to the purchasers: And whereas out of the money arising from such sales as aforesaid the Borough Council of Palmerston North purchased all that piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule C hereto: And whereas the District of Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board proposes to erect a hospital on the piece or parcel of land described in the said Schedule C hereto, but before doing so such Board requires that the said land described in the said Schedule C should become vested in the District of Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and the Borough Council of Palmerston North is willing that such land should be so vested: And whereas the said Borough Council has paid over to the District of Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board some of the moneys arising from such sales as aforesaid towards the erection of such hospital as aforesaid: And whereas it is expedient that the payment so made should be validated: And whereas it is expedient that the Borough Council of Palmerston North should be authorised to pay over to the said District of Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board any moneys still in its hands arising from such sales as aforesaid, to be applied by such Board in or towards the erection of such hospital as aforesaid: And whereas it is also expedient that all such portions of the land comprised in Schedule A hereto as have been sold by the said Borough Council, but the purchases whereof have not yet been completed, should be vested in the said District of Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, subject to the contracts of sale relating thereto, to be held for the purpose of the erection of such hospital as aforesaid: And whereas it is expedient that, for effecting the purposes aforesaid, this Act should be passed:

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