• Preamble

  WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the Paeroa Borough Council to take, divert, and impound the waters flowing into and in the stream in the County of Ohinemuri in the Hauraki Mining District, called Waitawheta Stream, for the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants of the Borough of Paeroa, and for the same purpose to empower such Council to lay mains and pipes from such stream to the Borough of Paeroa over reserves and roads and along and across the Waihi-Paeroa Railway-line and across the Ohinemuri River, which powers are not presently vested in such Council in respect of lands within a mining district: And whereas there is no source of water suitable for the aforesaid purpose available except in the Hauraki Mining District above mentioned:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—