INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON (COPY OF GRANT TO WESLEYAN MISSION FOR).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1878 Session I, H-37

S.-37.

1878. NEW ZEALAND.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON (COPY OF GRANT TO WESLEYAN MISSION FOR).

Laid on the Table by the Hon. Sir G. Grey, with the leave of the House. Geant to Wesleyan Mission for Industeial School at Wellington. Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth : To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas a school is about to be established at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, New Zealand, under the superintendence of the Reverend James Watkin, Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions for that province of New Zealand in which the Town of Wellington is situate, for the education of children of our subjects of all races, and of children of other poor and destitute persons, being inhabitants of islands in the Pacific Ocean : Arrd whereas it would promote the objects of the said institution to set apart a certain piece or parcel of land in the neighbourhood thereof for the use and towards the maintenance and support of the same : Now know ye that we, for us, our heirs and successors, do'hereby grant uirto the said James Watkin, Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions as aforesaid, all that piece or parcel of land situate and being in the Town of Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, New Zealand, aud bounded towards the North-west, South-west, and South in an irregular line by the Karori Eoad two hundred and forty (240) links and two hundred and sixty-six (266) links, by the Botanical Gardens three hundred and thirty-nine (330) links and two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five (2805) links, and by No. 128, Karori District, one thousand nine hundred and three (1903) links, one thousand one hundred and fifteen (1115) links, and two hundred and eightyfive (285) links; towards the East, South-east, North-east, and North by a branch of the Kinutoto Stream and an irregular line forming tho boundary of the Town Belt six hundred (600) links, five hundred and thirty-nine (539) links, three hundred and thirty-five (335) links, three hundred and thirty-five (335) links, and one hundred and seventy-four (174) links, and by the Wesley Eoad one thousand and eighty-eight links (108S) links and one thousand one hundred and seventy-three (1173) links: the contents being seventy-three (73) acres one (1) rood and twenty-two (22) perches, or thereabouts, and the boundaries being more particularly delineated on the plan drawn in the margin of these presents; together with the rents, issues, arrd proceeds thereof; to hold unto the said James Watkin, Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions for that province of New Zealand in which the Town of Wellington is situated, and his successors in such office, in trust, nevertheless, and for the use and towards the maintenance of the said school so long as religious education, industrial training, and instruction in the Euglish language shall be given to the youth educated therein or maintained thereat. In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our Province of New Munster, in our said territory. Witness our trusty aud well-beloved Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor-in-Chief and Commander-in-Chief of our said , . Territory and its Dependencies, and Governor of our Province of New Munster, at (L.S.; 'Wellington, in New Zealand aforesaid, this twenty-seventh day of October, in the six. teenth year of our Eeign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. G. Geey. Entered on record this twenty-seventh day of October, 1852, in Eegister 1, folio 49. Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary aud Eegistrar. By Authority : Geoege Didsbuet, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB7B, Price 3d.]