Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc v Nelson City Council - [1984] 2 NZLR 480

Public reserves and domains — Land purchased by local authority as a pleasure ground — Designation "as a pleasure ground" was included in the memorandum of transfer and the memorial recorded on the certificate of title — Money from Subdivision Reserve Account was used to pay part of purchase price — Whether the form of the transfer of the land and the source of the purchase moneys had converted the land into a property held in trust as a reserve — Whether the land was a reserve under the Reserves Act 1977.