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Railway and Harbour Reserves Leasing Ordinance 1869

6. The Railway and Harbour Reserves Leasing Ordinance 1869

[June 5, 1869.]

Whereas by grant from the Crown bearing date the 25th day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight all that parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the (Colony of' New Zealand situate in the Lyttelton District in Erskine Bay and containing by admeasurement nine acres three roods more or less commencing at a point on the southern extremity of Oxford street Lyttelton the said point being twenty links west of the south-western corner of Reserve No. 33 (in red) thence Southerly following a line parallel to the eastern side of that street a distance of two chains thirty-five links thence Easterly at a right angle a distance of twenty links thence again Southerly following a line in continuation of the eastern side of Oxford street beforementioned a distance of two chains forty- five links thence Westerly at a right angle. following a straight line a distance of nineteen chains sixteen links to a point on the eastern boundary of Reserve No. 383 (in red) thence Northerly following that boundary to te north-eastern corner of the said reserve a distance of three chains ninety links thence South-easterly following a straight line to the south-western corner of Reserve No. 31 (in red) and from thence returning easterly following the southern boundaries of Reserves Nos. 31 and 32 (in red) and a line in continuation of the same to the commencing point and numbered 872 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the town of Lyttelton was granted unto the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust as a site for stations stores and other buildings in connection with the Railway and the Harbour and Port of Lyttelton.

And whereas it is expedient that the said Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury and his successors should have power to demise and lease the parcel of land comprised in the said recited grant.

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Superintendent may demise and lease land in said recited grant.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent by and with the advice and consent of his

Executive Council from time to time to demise and lease for any term or terms not exceeding twenty-one years all or any part of the parcel of land comprised in the said recited grant upon such terms and conditions and at such rent or rents as to the Superintendent, by and with such advice and consent as aforesaid may seem proper.