• Preamble

  WHEREAS the Public Trustee is the trustee of the will dated the sixth day of June 1896 of Charles Rooking Carter, late of Wellington in New Zealand, gentleman (hereinafter called the testator): And whereas the Public Trustee holds as such trustee certain pieces of land comprising in all two thousand one hundred and seventy-eight acres three roods two point seven perches, more or less, situated near the Borough of Carterton, certain sums of money, and certain furniture and other household articles: And whereas by section 43 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1916 the powers of the Public Trustee in respect of the said land were enlarged and the name of the charitable institution erected on part of the said land in accordance with the provisions of the said will was changed from the Carterton Home for Aged Poor Men to the Carter Homes, and the conditions of eligibility for admission to the said homes were varied and provision was made for certain other matters: And whereas the Carter Homes, owing to their situation and for other reasons, are no longer suitable as a home for old people: And whereas a society, called the Carter Society Incorporated, has been incorporated under the provisions of the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 with the object of establishing a new home for aged persons in the Borough of Carterton: And whereas it is intended that on the establishment of the said new home any persons then living in the Carter Homes should be transferred to the said new home and the Carter Homes should be closed: And whereas it is the desire of the said society that funds which would otherwise have been used for the purposes of the Carter Homes should be available for the maintenance of the proposed new home: And whereas the Carter Homes Committee and the Public Trustee consider that the said proposals are reasonable and proper: And whereas the Carter Homes Committee desires to be relieved of its responsibilities in regard to the Carter Homes on the establishment of the proposed new home:

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