The Choral Hall Site.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 120, 19 September 1885, Page 4

The Choral Hall Site.

The Special Powers and Contracts Bill issued to-night, contains several matters of interest to Auckland. It proposes to veat the site of the Choral Hall in the hands of Messrs Fenton, J. M. Clark, and Thomas Buddie, upon trust, to pay interest at 8 pet cent, per annum upon the capital moneys now owing to persons who erected the Choral Hall, their assignees or representative?, and to pay off the sum as they may be able, to pay rates and charges thereon, and to insure the building in not le.-s than full amount of the money from time to time owing thereon, and to maintain the same in repair. Provision is made for preserving the hall for music and art, in case of the end oi the Choral Society's career. This provision is taken from "The Albert Hall Act, 1864," an Act enabling the Governor to grant a site near Government House for a mu-ic hall, which expired before sufficient monoy could be raieed to comply with its terms.

University for Auckland* The echedule authorises the transfer of the Bite occup'ed by the present Survey and Crown Lands Department to the Auckland University Collego Council.

Native Grant. Provision is made to grant to Hepera Pururuau and others 50 acres at Matata, promised in 1874 to the descendant of Eahahuri Paruru.

Mrs Graham's Claim. Provision is made for the exemption from the operation of the Thermal Springs Act of a portion of blocks Koutou and Te Kawaka, to allow Mrs Robert Graham an opportunity of acquiring the fee simple of a portion of Koutou Blocks on which Mrs Graham's house stands, not exceeding 10 acres in extent, and a leasehold for a period of twenty-one years of a portion of the Koutou Block adjoining the side of the house, and of Te Kawaka Block, in all not exceeding 300 acres ; the Thermal Springs to be included as a leasehold on freeholi.

Girls' High Softool. By the Industrial Schools Act, 1872, of the Province of Auckland, three acres of land, bounded .by Howe-street, Smith-street, Park-street, and ETopetoun-street, wa«i set apart as a site for an industrial school, for which purpose it ia no longer required. The Government is empowered to vest the land and buildings thereon in the Board of Education aa a site for the Auckland Girls' High School.

Other Towere. Osi-TBEE Hilt, Cemetery Reserve.-— The Government may change this into a recreation reserve, to be administered under the Public Domains Aot, '

The OffAHmro Quarry Reserve.— This also may be changed to a recreation ground Waiwb3ra\-lii compensation -for. timber taken from land, the property of. Wenzl Sohischka, of Puhoi, by arrangement made in 1876 t with the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland* the Governor may iaaue Crown grant to Wenzl Sohisohkafor section No. 13, block 111, Waiweira survey district, containing 49 acres 2 roods.- - Kawakawa. — The taking of certain' land for railway purposes is annulled^ aY certain valuable bundinga had been erected on the land, which was not now required for railway purposes. Waiake.— 29 aoree, Bituated in parish of of Waiakei in Rangaunu survey district, and being a site for a burial ground, ia vested in the Public Trustee for a native burial placeAbandonbd Allotments. — Allotments.of confiscated lands between Waikato and the city of Auok'.and having been selected for occupation and settlement for the protection iof frontiers under the terms of the New ; Zealand Settlement Acts by certain persons who, in breach of their engagements, have in some cases never occupied the allotments selected by them, and in others have abandoned them for more than ten years, leaving them in a waste and unimproved state, it is provided that the Government should resume possession of the said lands on behalf of the Queen, and dispose of them as Grown lands, Te Kooti's Allotment.— Provision is made for handing over to Te Kooti 40 acres ' at Punui, at present an endowment of the township of Alexandra.