• Preamble

  WHEREAS the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Invercargill, the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the Borough of Bluff, the Bluff Harbour Board (now known as the Southland Harbour Board), the Southland Cooperative Phosphate Company Limited, and the Corporation of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Southland have executed a memorandum of agreement, a copy whereof is set out in the Schedule to this Act, whereby the Invercargill City Council has agreed to construct and maintain a watersupply pipeline from Invercargill to Bluff and to supply water to other parties to the said memorandum of agreement: And whereas it is necessary to obtain legislative authority to validate and confirm the said memorandum of agreement and to authorise and empower the local authorities who were signatories thereto to carry out and perform the terms of the said memorandum of agreement:

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