• Preamble

  WHEREAS Charles Joseph Jury, formerly of Carterton, in New Zealand, died at Nukualofa, Tonga, on the nineteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, leaving a will and codicil both dated the seventeenth day of June, nineteen hundred and ten, probate whereof was granted by the Native Land Court at Otaki on the fourteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to the Public Trustee, the executor and trustee named therein: And whereas difficulties existed in giving effect to the said will, and in order to overcome such difficulties and generally to administer the estate in the most advantageous manner, considering the circumstances of the family generally, a deed of family arrangement was executed by all the beneficiaries under the said will (including the three eldest sons — namely, Charles Joseph Bonsell Jury, William Marshall Jury, and John Milsom Jury) and by other parties to the said deed, and also by the Public Trustee, subject to approval of the Supreme Court, such deed being dated the twenty-eighth day of June, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and being deposited in the Public Trust Office at Wellington under number 3348: And whereas the Supreme Court referred the said deed to the Registrar of that Court for inquiry and report: And whereas the Registrar held an inquiry, and made a report recommending that the deed be approved, and thereupon the Supreme Court duly approved the deed: And whereas the said deed provided, inter alia, that certain of the parties thereto, including the said three eldest sons, should transfer to the Public Trustee (to be dealt with and disposed of under the said deed as part of the estate of the said Charles Joseph Jury) certain freehold and leasehold lands owned by them respectively, and also that the said three eldest sons respectively should purchase from the Public Trustee under the said deed certain specified lands belonging to that estate at specified prices, such prices being in excess of a special Government valuation made for the purposes of the deed: And whereas technical difficulties exist in working out the said deed, inasmuch as some of the lands which some of the parties thereto are transferring to the Public Trustee, and also some of the lands which the said three eldest sons are acquiring as aforesaid from the Public Trustee, are subject to the limitations of area imposed by Part 13 of the Land Act 1908, or by Part 12 of the Native Land Act 1909, and by reason thereof the transfers cannot be registered, and it is expedient that such limitations should be removed: And whereas the objects of this Act are not obtainable otherwise than by legislation:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: