WHEREAS the Auckland City Council has heretofore in pursuance of section fifty-six of the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Act, 1908, levied a drainage rate within the City of Auckland for the purpose of paying the said Council’s contribution to the said Board, and in the future may continue to levy such drainage rate or may pay its said contribution out of the proceeds of a general rate as authorized by the above-mentioned section fifty-six: And whereas the said Council also levies water rates on properties within the City of Auckland: And whereas there are many properties in the City of Auckland with buildings erected thereon which cannot conveniently be connected to any public drain or sewer, and it is considered inequitable that such properties should be fully rated in respect of water-supply and drainage, and it is desirable that the said Council should be authorized and empowered to grant remissions or refunds of rates in respect of such properties: And whereas the said Council desires to transfer, subject to the leases now affecting the same, the land described in the Schedule hereto (which land is adjacent to the site of the Auckland University College buildings and is held by the Corporation of the City of Auckland under the provisions of the Auckland Improvement (Albert Barrack Reserves) Act, 1872, and the Auckland Improvement Commissioners’ Transfer of Powers Act, 1879) to the Auckland University College Council for the purposes of extension of the site of the college buildings, subject to the reservation to the said Corporation of the benefit of the income arising from the said land until the same is utilized for the erection of buildings for college purposes: And whereas it is desirable that the said Corporation should be empowered to transfer the said land as aforesaid: And whereas under the last will and testament of the late Alexander Richardson Dickey Watson who died on the fifth day of October, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and probate of whose will was granted by the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Auckland on the twelfth day of November, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the Auckland City Council became entitled to a one twenty-sixth share in the residuary estate of the said deceased to be set apart in or towards the purchase of public statuary for the City of Auckland: And whereas the said Council under such will did also become entitled to a further one twenty-sixth share in such residuary estate as the controlling body of the Auckland Art Gallery: And whereas the said Council desires to erect a group of statuary in Albert Part, Auckland, but the moneys received by it under the said will and thereby directed to be set apart in or towards the purchase of public statuary for the City of Auckland are insufficient to enable such erection to be made: And whereas it is desirable that the said Council should be empowered to utilize for the purpose of erecting the said group of statuary such part of the moneys received by it under the said will, as controlling body of the Auckland Art Gallery, as may be requisite to make up a sufficient sum to pay for the said group of statuary: