WHEREAS Samuel Kirkpatrick, of the City of Nelson, in the Dominion of New Zealand, manufacturer, by his last will and testament, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, devised and bequeathed certain real and personal estate to the Public Trustee of the Dominion aforesaid for the foundation and maintenance of a Masonic institution for the boarding, maintenance, and in certain circumstances the education of the orphan daughters of deceased Freemasons as therein defined: And whereas the said Samuel Kirkpatrick died on the twenty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-five: And whereas probate of the said will was on the sixth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, granted to the Public Trustee aforesaid by the Supreme Court at Wellington: And whereas the said institution has been duly founded and maintained in accordance with the provisions of the said will under the management of a Board of Governors elected in accordance with the provisions of the said will, and has become known as the Kirkpatrick Masonic Institute: And whereas the will of the said Samuel Kirkpatrick does not authorize the Board of Governors to receive and apply moneys for the upkeep and maintenance of the Institute from any source other than the estate of the said Samuel Kirkpatrick: And whereas the said Board has from time to time been offered contributions and donations to be applied for these purposes, which said contributions and donations the said Board had no power to accept: And whereas under the will of the said Samuel Kirkpatrick the testator directed the annual payment by the Public Trustee to the Board of Governors of certain definite sums of money to be distributed by the Board of Governors among the orphans of the Institute as athletic prizes, pocket-money, and scholastic prizes, and the said Board of Governors has found that the sums of money so directed to be distributed are excessive having regard to the number of orphans in the Institute: And whereas it is desirable that the said Board of Governors should be given a discretion as to the respective amounts to be distributed annually among the orphans of the Institute by way of athletic prizes, pocket-money, and scholastic prizes: And whereas the said will directs that there shall always be upon the said Board of Governors one member of the District Grand Lodge of Westland and Nelson (English Constitution) living and domiciled at Greymouth, West Coast, South Island: And whereas it is inexpedient that the residence and domicile of such member should be limited to Greymouth aforesaid: And whereas the objects of this Act are not attainable otherwise than by legislation: