24 JUNE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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Wellington City Council (Capital Power Establishment Plan) Empowering

Empowers the Wellington City Council to transfer its undertaking of the generation, distribution, and supply of electricity as identified in the establishment plan to Capital Power Limited otherwise than in accordance with its establishment plan.

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Private Bills

Notice of Private Bill

Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited Bill 1993

Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited having acquired 100% of the share capital in United Bank Limited on 8 May 1992 hereby gives notice that it intends to apply for leave to bring in the above-mentioned Private Bill during the present session of Parliament.

The objects of the Bill are to provide for:

(1) The transfer to Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited of the undertaking of United Bank Limited; and

(2) The dissolution of United Bank Limited; and

(3) Other purposes incidental thereto and consequent thereon.

Legislation is the only means by which the above objects of the said Bill can be effected efficiently and economically and without interference with the conduct and continuity of the business of banking in the interests of the said banks, their staff, their customers, and other persons having business with them.

The Bill provides that on a day to be appointed by the Governor-General in Council (the vesting day), the undertaking of United Bank Limited will vest in Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited. A reference to United Bank Limited in any instrument made before the vesting day will by virtue of the Bill be read as a reference to Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited. Any guarantee given by any person to United Bank Limited, or in respect of United Bank Limited’s obligations will remain binding after the vesting day. All proceedings commenced by or against United Bank Limited before the vesting day will continue after that day in the name of Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited. Customers of and depositors with United Bank Limited will have the same relationship with Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited as they had with United Bank Limited. All contracts entered into by United Bank Limited before the vesting day shall to the extent that they were previously binding on United Bank Limited be binding on Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited and any security held by United Bank Limited shall be available to Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited.

The promoter of the Bill is Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited.

Communications or notices to the promoter may be sent to Rudd Watts & Stone, Solicitors, Bank of New Zealand Tower, 125 Queen Street, Auckland (P.O. Box 3798, Auckland; Facsimile 379 3326).

A copy of the Bill may be inspected without charge at the offices set out below during normal office hours on any week day (except Saturday and Sunday and public holidays):

(a) The office of Rudd Watts & Stone at the address stated above;

(b) The office of the Corporate Solicitor, Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited, 280 Queen Street, Auckland;

(c) Any branch of Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited in New Zealand; and

(d) Auckland District Court, corner of Albert and Kingston Streets, Auckland.

Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited by its solicitors, Rudd Watts & Stone, per:

FRANCIS DAWSON.

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Ngati Rarua - Atiawa Iwi Trust Empowering Bill

Notice is hereby given by the Trustees of the Ngati Rarua - Atiawa Iwi Trust of their intention to apply for leave to introduce into the House of Representatives a private bill, under the Short Title of “The Ngati Rarua - Atiawa Iwi Trust Empowering Act 1993”, during the present session of Parliament.

The objects of the Bill are as follows:

i. To give effect to a resolution by the Nelson Diocesan Synod of the Anglican Church to vest the assets of the Whakarewa School Trust Board (also spelt as Wakarewa School Trust Board) in a trust for the descendants of the original Maori owners from whom those assets were acquired being the Ngati Rarua - Atiawa manawhenua ki Motueka iwi.

ii. To vest certain funds received by the Whakarewa School Trust Board after the land was acquired in 1853 which were not derived from the said land, in the Nelson Diocesan Trust Board for charitable social service purposes.

iii. To enable the consequential dissolution of the Whakarewa School Trust Board.

iv. To ensure an ongoing entitlement for any other hapu or iwi to be included as beneficiaries of the trust if a decision in their favour is able to be obtained from the Waitangi Tribunal, Maori Appellate Court, the High Court or any other Court of competent jurisdiction and to retain the right of any hapu or iwi to bring or continue any such claim before such Tribunal or Court seeking an entitlement.

Background:

a. In 1853 certain lands comprising in total 1078 acres or thereabouts were the subject of Crown grants and were vested in the then Bishop of New Zealand of the Anglican Church for the purpose of establishing a school on certain terms.

b. No compensation was paid to the then Maori owners for the appropriation of the land the subject of the grants.

c. No school has ever been erected on the land. A school operated intermittently supported by income from the land but not since the last century.

d. Whakarewa School Trust Board was incorporated as an Anglican Church Trust in 1907.

e. The Whakarewa School Trust Board administers the