8. Cancelling the reservation for scenic purposes over Reserve 3724,
 Block IX, Opihi Survey District, and setting the land apart as a
 recreation reserve---Whereas the land hereinafter described was by
 Proclamation published in the Gazette of the twenty-second day of June,
 nineteen hundred and five, taken for the purposes of scenery
 preservation under the Public Works Act, 1894, and the Scenery
 Preservation Act, 1903, and is now subject to the provisions of the
 Scenery Preservation Act, 1908: And whereas it is desirable that the
 said land should be set apart as a recreation reserve in order that it
 may be added to a public domain which is being provided in the locality
 out of land donated to the Crown for that purpose: Be it therefore
 enacted as follows:---

   (1) The reservation for scenic purposes over the land hereinafter
 described is hereby revoked, and the said land is hereby declared to be
 a recreation reserve under and subject to the provisions of the Public
 Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

   (2) The land to which this section relates is particularly described
 as follows:---

   All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by
 admeasurement sixty-two acres and thirty-five perches, more or less, and
 being Reserve 3724, situated in Block IX, Opihi Survey District, and
 bounded as follows: Towards the north generally by Part Rural Section
 7554, 334.5 links, 455.4 links, 464.0 links, 575.6 links, 673.2 links,
 732.2 links, 770.6 links, 412.4 links, 419.4 links, 470.7 links, 696.0
 links, 332.4 links, 549.4 links, 375.3 links, and 481.3 links; towards
 the north-east by the abutment of a road, 52.2 links; towards the
 south-east generally by Part Rural Section 7554, 501.2 links, 368.9
 links, 545.0 links, 355.2 links, 664.4 links, and 3467.0 links; and
 towards the south-west by Part Rural Section 7554, 1575.8 links; as the
 same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S.1/1088,
 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at
 Wellington, and thereon bordered red.