WHEREAS during the Taranaki war of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one a Committee, consisting of Harry Albert Atkinson, George Cutfield, Francis Ullathorne Gledhill, Richard Chilman, Josiah Flight, William Bayly, senior, Peter Elliott, all since deceased, and Messieurs Charles Brown, Thomas Good, Warwick Weston, William King Hulke, Thomas John Upjohn, and James Crowe Richmond, were appointed at a public meeting held on the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, at New Plymouth, for the purpose of collecting funds for the distressed settlers in the Taranaki District who had suffered losses by reason of the war: And whereas all moneys collected by such Committee were distributed with the exception of a sum of one hundred and seventy pounds: And whereas the Treasurer of the fund, one Richard Chilman, who died more than fifteen years ago, paid into the Bank of New Zealand, on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the said balance of one hundred and seventy pounds, to an account entitled “Treasurer, Taranaki Relief Committee,” and such sum remained untouched till the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, when it was taken out by the executors of the late Richard Chilman, who repaid themselves the sum of three pounds two shillings and threepence for some legal and other expenses they had incurred in connection therewith, and deposited the balance of one hundred and sixty-six pounds seventeen shillings and ninepence as a fixed deposit in their own names, in trust, for the twelve months ending the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three: And whereas it is desirable that the said sum of one hundred and sixty-six pounds seventeen shillings and ninepence, with the accrued interest thereon, should be applied for some purpose of public advantage, and for this purpose that it should be expended in equal proportions among the Board of Trustees for Public Recreation appointed under “The Taranaki Botanic Garden Act, 1876,” in accordance with the objects of such Act, the Conservators of the State Forests who have the management of the portion of the Mount Egmont State Forest Reserve known as the North Egmont State Forest, and the Conservators of the State Forests who have the management of the portion of the Mount Egmont State Forest Reserve known as the East Egmont State Forest, to be by such Conservators respectively applied in or towards making Mount Egmont accessible to tourists and others by means of roadways or tracks; or, in the case of the East Egmont State Forest Conservators, by erecting a tourist mountain-house within the reserve for the benefit of those desirous of ascending Mount Egmont: