association from the Blenheim Borough Council and further
to provide for various incidental matters. The Blenheim
Borough Council and the Marlborough Agricultural and
Pastoral Association have entered into an agreement providing
for the said land to be transferred to the Blenheim
Borough Council for the purposes of recreation and providing inter alia for payment of purchase money and for the
continuing use of the said land for the purposes of the
association as showgrounds on a number of days in each
year.

The promoter of the Bill is the Marlborough Agricultural
and Pastoral Association whose address is care of Messrs
Gascoigne, Wicks & Co., Barristers and Solicitors, 77 High
Street, Blenheim, to which address all communications and
notices may be sent and at which address a copy of the
Bill may be inspected.

Dated this 19th day of August 1974.

GASCOIGNE, WICKS & CO.,

Solicitors for the Promoter.

This is the third publication of this notice.

1969

THE MACDONALD ADOPTION BILL

NOTICE OF PRIVATE BILL

NOTICE is hereby given that Grace Jones Macdonald, of
Wellington, widow, intends to apply for leave to bring in
a Bill intituled "An Act to give to an interim order of
adoption made on the 24th day of May 1972 in favour
of Andrew Macdonald and Grace Jones Macdonald as adopting
parents of Donald Alan Macdonald such force and
effect as if it had been a final order of adoption made on
the same day", the object of which is to declare that the
interim order of adoption, made by the Magistrate's Court
at Wellington on the 24th day of May 1972, on the application of Andrew Macdonald (since deceased) and Grace Jones
Macdonald to adopt Donald Alan Macdonald, shall operate,
and for all purposes be deemed always to have operated,
as a final order of adoption.

A copy of the Bill may be inspected at the offices of
Messrs Salek, Turner & Brown, 32 Waring Taylor Street,
Wellington, to which communications or notices to the
promoter may be sent.

G. J. MACDONALD, Promoter.

This is the third publication of this notice.

1970

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PROPERTY

AMENDMENT BILL

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO BRING IN PRIVATE BILL

The Presbyterian Church Property Trustees give notice of
their intention to apply for leave to bring in to the House of
Representatives the above-mentioned Bill.

The objects of the Bill are to extend the powers of investment
of the trustees; to empower the trustees to credit
different rates of interest to different trusts or classes of
trusts represented in the Amalgamated Investment Fund,
having regard to the nature and periods of those trusts; to
empower trustees or other persons holding funds on trust for
the use or purposes of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
or any congregation or organisation connected with it,
or of that church or congregation or organisation and other
bodies jointly, to transfer such funds to the Presbyterian
Church Property Trustees to be held by them as trustees
thereof; to empower the trustees to lend or lease to themselves as trustees in a different capacity; to empower the
trustees to act jointly with other persons or bodies in the
exercise of their powers to lend money on mortgage, or in
the doing of other things for the benefit of trusts administered
by them; to extend the borrowing powers of the trustees; to
empower the trustees to approve schemes for the alternative
application of certain funds held for special objects or
purposes connected with or relating to any congregation of
the Presbyterian Church, if it is impossible or impracticable or
inexpedient to carry out those objects or purposes; to declare
that the trustees are not a moneylender within the meaning
of the Moneylenders Act 1908; and to provide that the costs,
charges, disbursements, and expenses of and incidental to the

preparation, obtaining, and passing of the Bill shall be paid
from the Investment Fund Income Account established under
section 3 (6) of the Presbyterian Church Property Trustees
Empowering Act 1957.

The promoters of the Bill are the Presbyterian Church
Property Trustees.

The promoters' address for service of communications or
notices is Dalmuir House, 114 The Terrace, Wellington 1. A
copy of the Bill may be inspected at that address.

This is the first publication of this notice.

2054

NEW ZEALAND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT 1909

ADVERTISEMENT OF CANCELLING

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly
Societies has, pursuant to section 70 of the Friendly
Societies Act 1909, by writing under his hand dated this
23rd day of August 1974, cancelled the registry of
Alexandrovna Lodge, No. 15, a branch of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of New Zealand,
Register No. 146/4, with registered office held at Temuka,
on the ground that the said branch has ceased to exist.

O. D. GOOD, Registrar of Friendly Societies.

2027

NEW ZEALAND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT 1909

ADVERTISEMENT OF CANCELLING

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly
Societies has, pursuant to section 70 of the Friendly Societies
Act 1909, by writing under his hand dated this 23rd day
of August 1974, cancelled the registry of Waimate Lodge
No. 80, a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge of New Zealand, Register No. 146/93, with
registered office held at Waimate, on the ground that the
said branch has ceased to exist.

O. D. GOOD, Registrar of Friendly Societies.

2028

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