WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Church Property Trust (Canterbury) Act, 1879 (hereinafter called the said Act), it was enacted that certain persons therein referred to under the name of “The Church Property Trustees” should hold certain messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments specified and described in the Schedule B to the said Act, and commonly known as the Dean and Chapter Estate, upon certain trusts, intents, and purposes therein declared concerning the same: And whereas it was also thereby enacted that the annual rents, issues, and profits, and all other sums becoming payable in respect of the said Dean and Chapter Estate, and thereinafter referred to as the said income, should (after payment thereout in the first place of all proper and necessary charges connected with the management of the said estate, and of an annual sum of five hundred pounds to the Dean, and of an annual sum of one hundred pounds to each one of the Canons for the time being) be held by the said Church Property Trustees upon the trusts and for the objects, intents, and purposes therein mentioned: And whereas it is desirable to amend the said Act, and to extend the trusts and purposes upon which the said Dean and Chapter Estate is held, and to make provision for payment out of the said income of a pension or other annual retiring-allowance to any Dean or Canon or Minor Canon as mentioned in the said Act for the residue of his natural life upon or after his resignation or retirement from his office of Dean, or Canon, or Minor Canon: