• Preamble

  WHEREAS by a certain deed of conveyance bearing date the twentieth day of June eighteen hundred and eighty-three in pursuance of The Special Powers and Contract Act 1882 His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois (Governor of the Colony of New Zealand) (hereinafter called the Governor) conveyed and assured unto William Hogg Watt, of Wanganui in New Zealand, merchant, Henry Nathan, of the same place, farmer, Benjamin Nicholas Manley, also of the same place, accountant, and George McCaul, also of the same place, law clerk (hereinafter called the Original Trustees) the land described in Schedule 1 hereto upon trust inter alia from time to time and at all times thereafter to permit the said piece or parcel of land and appurtenances and any hall or other buildings which may for the time being be standing thereon or any part thereof respectively to be used by all Lodges of the Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons holding charter under any one or more of the Grand Lodges of England, Scotland, or Ireland now or hereafter to be established in the Town or Borough of Wanganui aforesaid and upon such terms and conditions as the Trustees or Trustee shall in their discretion think expedient: And whereas the land now the subject of the trust of the said deed of conveyance is described in Schedule 2 hereto: And whereas by virtue of an order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand made on the twenty-eighth day of February eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and by virtue of certain deeds of appointment bearing date the twenty-first day of August nineteen hundred and sixteen and the twenty-third day of November nineteen hundred and fifty-one the said land is now vested in Alexander Stewart Ballingall, of Wanganui, public accountant, Peter Lockhart Dickson, of the same place, solicitor, Claud William Horne, of the same place, company manager, Forbes Clingan Wight, of the same place, master builder, Walter Max Willis, of the same place, solicitor, and Roy Stuart Withers, of the same place, solicitor (hereinafter called the Present Trustees): And whereas at the date of the said deed of conveyance the only Lodges then existing in Wanganui were Tongariro Lodge number 705 holding charter under the United Grand Lodge of England and the Saint Andrew Kilwinning Lodge holding charter under the Grand Lodge of Scotland: And whereas in or about the year eighteen hundred and ninety the Grand Lodge of New Zealand was constituted: And whereas the Saint Andrew Kilwinning Lodge now holds charter as number 79 under the said Grand Lodge of New Zealand: And whereas on or about the fifteenth day of November nineteen hundred and twenty Lodge Whanganui number 219 was constituted holding charter under the Grand Lodge of New Zealand: And whereas the said three Lodges are the only Lodges now using the hall built on the land described in Schedule 2: And whereas it is desirable that the terms of the trust created by the said deed of conveyance be varied to include Lodges holding charter under the Grand Lodge of New Zealand and that the land hitherto vested in or controlled by the trustees for the time being under the said deed of conveyance be vested in a Trust Board to be a body corporate and to be called Wanganui Masonic Hall Trust Board:

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