IV.—Amended Scheme for the Application of Rents

Accruing from a piece of land, comprised in a Crown grant dated the 28th day of December, 1830, to George Augustus Bishop of New Zealand of a piece of land granted for the endowment of a School at Porirua and also for the application of the interest accruing from the investment of such rents.

That the Trustees of the said land be empowered to expend the net rent and profits arising from the said land and the net page 14 income of the fund representing accumulated rentals and interest in the following manner:—

1.

To assist in the maintenance of an Institution about to be erected in the Wairarapa Valley by Trustees consisting of the said Frederic Wallis, Thomas Fancourt, Edward William Lowe, John Elisha Smith, William Henry Quick and George Edmeades Tolhurst, in whom are vested certain lands in the Wairarapa District, originally granted to the Right Reverend George Augustus Lord Bishop of New Zealand by two Crown Grants, bearing date respectively the 14th day of June, 1853, which lands were granted for the purpose of the use maintenance and support of a College to be established in the Wairarapa Valley "so long as Religious Education, Industrial Training and Instruction in the English Language should be given to the youth educated therein or maintained thereat, being subjects of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of all races and of children of other poor and destitute persons being inhabitants of Islands in the Pacific Ocean" (provided such Institutions be conducted in accordance with the Trusts of the said Grants and that youths of the Maori Race be preferred for admission thereat

2.

That the General Synod of the Church of the Province of New Zealand commonly called the Church of England, or by its consent the Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Wellington or its Standing Committee, shall have power to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the foregoing portion of this scheme under and subject to which the same shall be carried out.

This scheme was submitted to the Court and Counsel were heard by Sir Robert Stout C.J. and Mr. Justice Edwards. As before the Government opposed but on this occasion did not produce an alternative scheme.

The result of the application will be gleaned from the following judgment:—