May 16.]

A BILL INTITULED "THE WELLINGTON CITY MISSION (CHURCH OF ENGLAND) ACT, 1929."

NOTICE is hereby given that application is intended to be made to the General Assembly of New Zealand at the ensuing session by the St. Peter's (Taranaki Street) Mission Trust Board, incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the present Board”), for leave to introduce a Private Bill, the Short Title of which is as above, to effect the following objects and purposes:

1. To empower the Diocesan Trusts Board of the Diocese of Wellington to appoint a Board of Trustees (hereinafter called “the new Board”), in which, upon its incorporation under Part II of the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1908, shall be vested all the real and personal property which at the date of such incorporation is vested in the present Board, and to provide for the mode of appointment of new trustees of the new Board.

2. To declare that the property so vested in the new Board, together with all property thereafter acquired by it, shall be held upon trust for the purposes of a Mission in the City of Wellington in connection with the Church of the Province of New Zealand (commonly called the Church of England), independently of any parish or parochial district, and under the control of the Wellington Diocesan Synod or the Standing Committee thereof, and, as parts of the work of such Mission, for the holding of Divine Service in accordance with the tenets, rites, and ceremonies of the said Church, and for all such religious, charitable, and educational works as heretofore have been or usually are carried on in connection with a City Mission, including in particular (but without restricting the generality of the trust) the conduct of Sunday Schools, day or night schools, hostels, boardinghouses, clubs, and gymnasia.

3. The confer upon the Wellington Diocesan Synod power to make regulations for the management and control of the said Mission, and authority to delegate such power to the said Standing Committee.

4. To confer upon the new Board powers of sale, exchange, mortgage, purchase, hiring, leasing, or acquisition of real or personal property, or erection of buildings and improvements, subject in the case of land, buildings, and improvements to the consent of the Wellington Diocesan Synod or the said Standing Committee.

5. To confer upon the new Board power, with the consent of the Wellington Diocesan Synod or the said Standing Committee, to hand over to the Wellington Diocesan Social Service Board (constituted under Act No. 13 of the WellingtonDiocesan Synod) the direction of the said Mission.

6. To declare that any property which may heretofore have been, or may now or hereafter be, held upon trust for, or devised or bequeathed to, the present Board, shall be held upon trust for or belong to the new Board.

7. To provide for payment of the costs of the promotion of the said Bill out of the income of the property now held by the present Board.

Printed copies of the proposed Bill will, on or before the 20th day of June, 1929, be deposited at the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders, Parliamentary Buildings, Wellington, and at the Diocesan Office, Mulgrave Street, Wellington, where, as well as at the offices of the undersigned, at the corner of Ballance and Featherston Streets, Wellington, the said copies may be inspected and obtained.

Dated this 14th day of May, 1929.

BELL, GULLY, MACKENZIE, AND O'LEARY,

Solicitors for the present Board.

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A BILL INTITULED "THE WELLINGTON BISHOPRIC ENDOWMENT TRUST (CHURCH OF ENGLAND) ACT, 1929."

NOTICE is hereby given that application is intended to be made to the General Assembly of New Zealand at the ensuing session by the Wellington Bishopric Endowment Trust Board, incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the Board”), for leave to introduce a Private Bill, the Short Title of which is as above, to effect the following objects and purposes:

1. To extend the powers of the Board and the trusts upon and the purposes for which the present and future property of the Board (hereinafter called “the said estate”) now is, and hereafter may be, held by it, and in particular,

(1) To provide that after payment of expenses of management of the said estate, the Board shall, as a first charge upon the income of the said estate, make a fixed annual payment to the Bishop of Wellington, and as a second charge, pay all taxes in respect of income so payable to him.

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(2) In the next place, to provide for the payment of pensions or other allowances to the Bishop of Wellington upon resignation or retirement, and to his widow and orphan children, and to establish a fund the income whereof may be applied to those purposes.

(3) In the next place, to provide for the application of the income of the said estate, in accordance with the directions of the Wellington Diocesan Synod, towards the following purposes:

(a) In augmentation of the annual income of the Bishop of Wellington:

(b) Towards the payment of additional taxes occasioned by such augmentation:

(c) Towards the payment of travelling-allowances to the Bishop of Wellington, including travelling and removal expenses of any person after acceptance of nomination as such:

(d) Towards the stipend and maintenance of assistant, coadjutor, or suffragan Bishops in the Diocese of Wellington, and of chaplains, archdeacons, diocese officers, and other assistants of the Bishop of Wellington:

(e) Towards the payment of pensions or other allowances to such assistant, coadjutor, or suffragan Bishops, and their widows and orphan children:

(f) Towards the payment of travelling-allowances to such assistant, coadjutor, or suffragan Bishops, including travelling or removal expenses of any person after his acceptance of nomination as such.

(4) In the next place, to provide for the application of any surplus income of the said estate in accordance with the directions of the Wellington Diocesan Synod towards the following purposes:

(a) Towards making provision for the special training of candidates for Holy Orders:

(d) Towards any other religious, charitable, or educational purposes of the Church of the Province of New Zealand (commonly called “The Church of England”) in the Diocese of Wellington.

II. To authorize the Board to invest surplus income of the said estate, and to apply the same, under direction of the Wellington Diocesan Synod, towards all or any of the trusts hereinbefore declared.

III. To make provision for the apportionment of the said estate by the General Synod in the event of a division of the Diocese of Wellington or of any part of the said diocese becoming part of another diocese.

IV. To provide for payment of the costs of the promotion of the said Bill out of the income of the said estate.

Printed copies of the proposed Bill will, on or before the 31st day of May, 1929, be deposited at the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders, Parliamentary Buildings, Wellington, and at the Diocesan Office, Mulgrave Street, Wellington, where, as well as at the offices of the undersigned, at the corner of Ballance and Featherston Streets, Wellington, the said copies may be inspected and obtained.

Dated this 14th day of May, 1929.

BELL, GULLY, MACKENZIE, AND O'LEARY,

Solicitors for the Board.

BOROUGH OF DEVONPORT.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATES.

Loans £4,300 and £1,900.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the Devonport Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:

(1) That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of four thousand three hundred pounds (£4,300), authorized to be raised by the Devonport Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for repaying to the General Account moneys paid out of the said account for compensation-moneys and other expenses in connection with the taking of land under the Public Works Act, 1908, for (a) Street-widening purposes (Victoria Road), and (b) extending the recreation reserve known as Cheltenham Beach, the said Devonport Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of five sixty-fourths (5/64ths) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Devonport, and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of June in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

(2) That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of one thousand nine hundred pounds