SPECIAL POWERS AND CONTRACTS BILL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2616, 25 August 1882, Page 3

SPECIAL POWERS AND CONTRACTS BILL.

[kboji the “press."] WELLINGTON, August 24 Tho following are the chief Canterbury items in the schedule of the Special Powers and Contracts Bill circulated tonight:—l. It being deemed desirable to sot apart as a school site part of reserve 1420 (in red) made for a gravel pit, which cannot now be done, owing to the provisions of the Public Reserves Aot, 1881, the Governor may by notice in the “ Gazette ” change the purpose from a gravel pit to a site for a school. 2. It being desirable to change Reserve 110 from a gravel pit to a recreation ground, and (3) to set apart as a site and grounds for a school part or the reserve 736 made for a stone quarry, tho Governor may do those things accordingly, 4 A parcel of land in tho provincial district of Can! erbury having been convoyed under deed dated 6th March. 1882, by James Edward Fitz Gerald to Her Majesty in trust for tho purposes of a plantation, and for the improvement and protection of a stream running there through, authority is required to enable the Governor to provide for the administration of such land. In accordance with such trusts the Governor may by Order in Council declare the lands specified to be set apart as Crown lands, subject to the provisions of tho Public Domains Act, 1881, to bo managed, administered, and dealt with under the said Act as a place of public recreation, subject to the same being planted and preserved for the improvement and protection of the stream running through the said lands. 5. A grant to the Corporation of the Borough of Sydenham, rural section 30494, in the provincial district of Canterbury, containing 345 acres, as an endowment in and of the Borough funds, to be dealt with under the Municipal Corporations Aot, 1876, any provision in tho Municipal Corporations Aot Amendment Act, 1878, _ notwithstanding, He may by notification in the • 1 Gazette ” authorise the sale by public auction in such manner and on such terms and conditions in all respects as the Governor shall think fit of recreation reserve 1639 in the Kowai road district, containing 344 acree more or less, and thereupon It may be so sold, and cause the amount received from such sale to bo applied, four-fifths to tho establishment of recreation grounds at Amberley and Sefton respectively, and one-fifth to the improvement of recreation reserve 2066 in the same road distriot. 7. He may by notice in the “ Gazette ” change the purpose from provincial government purposes to a school site of part of reserve 1781 (in red) in the Hinds survey district, containing fire acres more or less.