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Reserve No. 88 Ordinance 1875

5. The Reserve No. 88 Ordinance 1875. [18^th June, 1875.]

^{Whereas by Crown Grant bearing date the Twenty-first day of February one} thousand eight hundred and seventy all that piece or parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in the district of Akaroa Banks’ Peninsula and containing by admeasurement two acres two roods more or less and being Reserve numbered 88 (in red) on the Maps of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the district of Akaroa aforesaid with all the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging was granted unto the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust as a site for a Public Abattoir:

And whereas by the “Public Reserves 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. Specific purposes of Reserve shall be changed, and it shall henceforth be held by Superintendent in trust for purposes of a public recreation ground.

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. 88 Ordinance 1875.”