• Preamble

  WHEREAS land containing 3.2 hectares more or less being part of the Pehiaweri Block situated in Block V of the Whangarei Survey District was by a deed dated the 25th day of November 1885 (registered in the Auckland District Land Registry under number 102114) conveyed by the Maori owners thereof to trustees as joint tenants upon trust as a site for a church and parsonage or either for the Anglican Church and for religious charitable and educational purposes generally and a church and vicarage were erected thereon: And whereas by an order made on the 9th day of March 1932 the Maori Land Court vested the said land in trust in the General Trust Board of the Diocese of Auckland of the Anglican Church for a church and vicarage and burial ground purposes: And whereas on the 28th day of January 1946 the said land was registered in the Land Registration District of Auckland under the provisions of The Land Transfer Act 1915 and the District Land Registrar issued in respect thereof certificate of title, Volume 769, folio 82 limited as to Parcels and Title and entered a caveat number A225386 thereon to prevent the use of the said land except as a church and vicarage and for burial ground purposes of the Anglican Church in accordance with the said order of the Court: And whereas pursuant to section 204 of The Land Transfer Act 1952 the limitation as to title has now expired but caveat number A225386 still affects the said land: And whereas the Pehiaweri Maori Church and Marae Incorporated was incorporated on the 8th day of June 1973 under The Incorporated Societies Act 1908 by elders of the Ngatihau tribe of the Maori people resident at Pehiaweri among whom are descendants of the original Maori owners with the objects inter alia of maintaining the said land and the church and vicarage buildings thereon and it has done so: And whereas the General Trust Board of the Diocese of Auckland is now desirous of transferring the said land to the people of the district and the Pehiaweri Maori Church and Marae Incorporated is desirous of holding the said land for the objects for which it was incorporated but doubt exists as to whether the transfer of the said land can be effected otherwise than by legislation:

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