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Reserve No. 74 Ordinance 1873

8. The Reserve No. 74 Ordinance 1873.

Whereas by Crown Grant bearing date the twenty-eighth day of May One thousand eight hundred and seventy three all that parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in the Mandeville district near Kaiapoi containing fifteen acres and thirty-two perches more or less commencing at a point on the North Road the same being the north-western corner of section No. 338E following along the said road in a northerly direction a distance of nineteen chains and running back easterly a distance of eight chains in a rectangular block and numbered 74 in red on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province setting out and describing the rural land in the Mandeville district aforesaid as the same is delineated on the plan drawn in the margin thereof with all the rights and appurtenances there-unto belonging was granted unto the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust as a site for a Church Cemetery Market Place, and other purposes of public utility And whereas by the “Public Reserve Act 1854” under and by virtue of which the aforesaid grant was made it is enacted that the specific purposes for which any lands granted under the said Act within any Province should be held might be changed and the same lands might be appropriated to other and different purposes of public utility for the public service of such province And whereas it has become necessary to alter the purposes for which the aforesaid land is held as hereinafter described.

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. Land described in the Schedule to be held by Superintendent in trust for public recreation purposes.

The specific purposes of public utility for which the lands hereinbefore described are held shall be and are hereby changed and such lands shall be henceforth held by the Superintendent of the said Province and his successors in trust for and for the purposes of a public recreation ground.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Reserve No. 74 Ordinance 1873.”