Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1970

7: Kyeburn Public Library endowment

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You can learn about the Kyeburn Public Library endowment. The Governor of New Zealand set aside some land as an endowment for a public library in Kyeburn. This land was given to the Kyeburn Public Library to use for the library. You know the library gets income from this land. Sometimes the income is more than the library needs. The library wants to use the extra income for other charitable purposes in the County of Maniototo. The law says the library can use the extra income for charitable purposes. This means they can give grants to people in the County of Maniototo for things like helping others. The library can do this as long as they have enough money to keep the library running well. The endowment land is in the Otago Land District and is about 165 acres in size. It is described in a certificate of title, which is a document that says who owns the land. You can find more information about this in the Reserves, Endowments, and Crown and Maori Lands Exchange, Sale, Disposal, and Enabling Act 1898 and the Charitable Trusts Act 1957.

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7Kyeburn Public Library endowment

Whereas, by section 44 of the Reserves, Endowments, and Crown and Maori Lands Exchange, Sale, Disposal, and Enabling Act 1898, the Governor of New Zealand was authorised by notice in the Gazette to reserve the land described in subsection (2) (in this section referred to as the endowment land) as an endowment for a public library in the Township of Kyeburn and to grant the land to any corporate body for an estate in fee simple, without power of sale, on trust for that purpose:

And whereas, by notice dated 8 September 1904 and published in the Gazette on the 15th day of that month at pages 2208 and 2209, the Governor granted the endowment land to the Kyeburn Public Library (Incorporated) (in this section referred to as the incorporation):

And whereas the income from the endowment exceeds the amount required for the purposes of the library maintained by the incorporation on other land:

And whereas the incorporation desires to use the surplus income for other charitable purposes within the County of Maniototo, but has no power to do so:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 44 of the Reserves, Endowments, and Crown and Maori Lands Exchange, Sale, Disposal, and Enabling Act 1898 or in any other enactment or rule of law, the incorporation may from time to time make grants to any person domiciled within the County of Maniototo for any purpose that is a charitable purpose within the meaning of section 2 of the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 out of any income derived from the endowment land that is not required for the satisfactory maintenance of the library, or any library which may hereafter replace that library.
The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:

All that area of land situated in the Otago Land District, containing 165 acres, 2 roods, and 29 perches, more or less, being Section 19, Block VIII, Maniototo Survey District, being all the land comprised in certificate of title, volume 140, folio 55, Otago Land Registry (SO Plan 5574).