In re Mitchell Public Trustee v Salvation Army and Others - [1963] NZLR 934

Practice and procedure — Attorney-General — Joinder in proceedings relating to charitable gifts — Gifts to substantial named institutions — Whether joinder necessary — Circumstances under which Attorney-General to be joined.

Charitable trust — Gift of income for young woman having first child in named maternity home — Whether void for uncertainty — Whether trust for relief of poverty — Whether failing for lack of element of benefit to community.

Charitable trust — Imperfect trust provision — Gift of income for provision of creature comforts and necessities for inmates of old peoples' home — Part of objects charitable and part non-charitable — Whether an imperfect trust provision — Whether valid subject to non-charitable purpose being excluded — Trustee Act 1956, s. 82.

Charitable trust — Joinder of Attorney-General in proceedings — circumstances under which to be joined.