Whereas by deed of trust bearing date 19 November 1947 Mary Bouchier Bryant, of Hamilton, married woman, expressed her desire to give and present certain land in Hamilton to the Trustees named in the said deed of trust for the purpose of a home for children:
And whereas by memorandum of transfer bearing date the said 19 November 1947 the said Mary Bouchier Bryant, in pursuance of her said desire, transferred unto the said Trustees all that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland containing 1 rood and 24 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 2 on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Auckland as Number 26527, being portion of Allotment 328 of the Town of Hamilton West, and being all the land in certificate of title, Volume 680, folio 26, Auckland Registry:
And whereas the said deed of trust declared that the said land should be held in perpetuity upon trust for the purposes of a home for children, and directed that the Trustees should make application for incorporation under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908 of a Trust Board to be known as the Mary Bryant Trust Board:
And whereas the said Mary Bouchier Bryant died on or about 7 December 1947:
And whereas on 19 May 1948 the said Trustees were duly incorporated under the said Act under the name or title of the Mary Bryant Trust Board:
And whereas, pursuant to the said deed of trust, the said land has now been transferred to and vested in the Mary Bryant Trust Board (hereinafter called the Board) for the purposes therein set out:
And whereas, following upon the passing of the Bryant House Trust Board Enabling Act 1948 and pursuant thereto, a certain farm property therein mentioned, together with live and dead stock thereon and the sum of 15,131 pounds 14 shillings and 10 pence, was transferred to and settled upon the said Board by the Bryant Trust Board, a body duly incorporated under the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act 1908 and having its registered office at Hamilton for the purposes of establishing an endowment with which to carry out the trusts of the said deed of trust:
And whereas on 22 May 1949 the said Board opened up on the said land at Hamilton a home for the care of children who, through sickness or any other cause, find it necessary to be separated from their mothers, and the Board has continued to conduct the home since that date:
And whereas since the said settlement by the Bryant House Trust Board of the said assets the annual income therefrom has provided to the said Board sufficient funds not only to conduct the said home for children, but also to provide a reserve capital fund which, in the opinion of the Board, is adequate for the future requirements of the said home:
And whereas the powers vested in the Board under the said deed of trust restrict the Board to the provision and conduct of a home for children on the said land in perpetuity:
And whereas the Board desires that statutory authority be given for the establishment by the Board of further homes for children and to enable it to benefit other public charitable organizations formed for the protection, advancement, education, or benefit of children.