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each particular portion of leasehold property, but it was found
to involve a great amount of detail, and difficulty was experien-
ced in several cases in ascertaining the exact trusts or objecte
to which the property was intended to be applied by the German
mission in question. In some cases, for example, it appeared
probable that the property belonged beneficially to the members
This of a congregation, and not to the German mission itself. explains the general and somewhat vague form in which sub-section (1) of section 6 is drafted, but it will be noticed that the
general intention of that sub-section is to use any particular property only for the purpose of carrying on some part of the work formerly carried on by the particular mission to whom the
property formerly belonged.
9.
Sub-section (2) of section 6 subjects to the same trusts as
the leasehold property any property handed over by the Custodian, and in this case also the property will be earmarked for the work
of the mission to which it formerly belonged.
10.
Sub-section (3) of section 5 applies the same trusts to any
property in which any of the trust property may be converted,
and it also applies the same trusts to the income of any such
property.
11.
Sub-section (4) of section 5 is inserted to make it quite clear that the Basel Mission pension scheme for superannuated catechists and others, and for the dependants of deceased cate-
chists, etc., is to be carried out. The reason for the refer-
ence to service out of the Colony is that part of the endowment
of the pension fund is situated in China.
12.