Brewer CameronCAMERON BREWER (National—Upper Harbour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's great to stand in support of the McLean Institute (Trust Variation) Bill. As others have covered the purpose and context of the bill I thought I would pay tribute to the select committee ably led by our colleague Joseph Mooney and I know he's disappointed not to be here today but I suspect he's watching online and wondering what we're going to say next. Now the bill was referred to the Social Services and Community Committee at the 53rd Parliament back in June and the committee called for submissions. It was reinstated like a lot of pieces of legislation by this incoming Government for ongoing examination on 6 December and the Social Services and Community Committee considered submissions from three interested individuals and groups. They heard oral evidence from two submitters via video conference and in Wellington and they received advice from officials including from the Ministry of Justice the Office of the Clerk and the Parliamentary Counsel Office with legal drafting.So as others have traversed this bill is updating old England terminology and it goes to show that we can change and I want to be able to put it forward to those that are thinking—the wealthy amongst the community of philanthropy—as to whether things will stick in this fast-changing world if they were to bequeath something. This is proof. This is proof—Tom Rutherford: It's over 100 years old.CAMERON BREWER: —that's right Tom Rutherford; this is over 100 years old—that things have stuck. So many women have benefited since and will continue to and the legislation and the wording and interpretation and definitions can change accordingly.I also reflect as an Auckland MP if I may on Sir John Logan Campbell almost a contemporary of Allan McLean and how he bequeathed Cornwall Park and One Tree Hill Maungakiekie. And that's been in trust because he wanted to bring farm animals to the people the children of Auckland and he knew that Auckland would grow and he foresaw that. And so he was a contemporary. He also lived a big age—not unlike Mr McLean. Mr McLean was well into his 80s—85—when he died in 1907. Sir John Logan Campbell was 94. So Stuart Smith I can only think that perhaps if you're generous in life you might live a little longer. Who knows for those wealthy that are considering philanthropy?I also reflect on the days of this that New Zealand when this was first established was a country as we heard during the Anzac Day once of less than a million people. So for people to have this foresight as to the challenges that lay ahead and the complications with society pre - World War I was quite phenomenal. You also have to reflect that only a decade earlier Kate Sheppard and her fellow suffragists gathered 32000 signatures and subsequently this Parliament passed the Electoral Act against the wishes of Richard Seddon in 1893 and of course it took effect on 19 September.So this is the kind of era and landscape and context that this operates in. So my contribution is about highlighting to those that might be watching or listening to encourage those that they know that might have something that they want to leave the public going forth after this life that it can be locked up in statute it can be changed and it can be delivered. This is kind of action in motion as we're seeing.Tim Costley: Keep going!CAMERON BREWER: You also have to think Tim Costley that Julian and Josie Robertson some of the great modern-day philanthropists that gave $178 million worth of art to the Auckland Art Gallery including Picassos—as Americans they bequeathed that to New Zealand—Katie Nimon: And to Hawke's Bay.CAMERON BREWER: —and in 120 years' time our descendants—and you'll be in one of your final terms by then Katie Nimon—will be able to still enjoy that $178 million art collection thanks to the late and great Julian and Josie Robertson. So it is good to see that philanthropy is alive and well and needs to be encouraged.I also want to acknowledge the sponsor of this bill and a passionate Christchurch MP the Hon Dr Duncan Webb for shepherding this through. And just to reiterate to those that might have joined our TV audience in the last few minutes and are wondering what we're up to this is a bill that seeks to vary the charitable purpose of the McLean Institute trust which was established through the will of Allan McLean who passed away in the 1900s. It would also vary aspects of how the trust is administered and the powers bestowed upon the board of the McLean Institute and all those definitions that have been mentioned before that are up for due change.Aren't we lucky that the McLean building the McLean mansion remains? We have got to do a trip down to Christchurch to have a look at this 1900—amazing; it was one of the largest timber buildings in the world when it was constructed in 1899 to 1900 and then of course the Christchurch earthquakes. There was actually a call for it—well the owner wanted it demolished—Tim Costley: Oh no.CAMERON BREWER: —but a charitable organisation Mr Costley—good willing—intervened the courts heard it and they saved it. I understand that there has been a restoration project under way ever since McLean Mansion looks like it should be on any New Zealand historian's general charter of going through Christchurch and having a look at the fabulous buildings that have been retained thanks to the generosity of community and the generosity of trusts—just like the McLean Institute that continues its good work.I also note that I think he arrived on a ship called the Tory. So maybe—Hon Member: Hey one of us! CAMERON BREWER: —that indicated his political preferences—one of us one of us—and so we treat this man with great dignity. Another thing: he was described as a New Zealand runholder and of course a philanthropist. He moved from Scotland to Australia as a child and to New Zealand.Hon Carmel Sepuloni: What colour was his hair? Keep going!CAMERON BREWER: Well I can see Carmel Sepuloni that by the end of it at 85 years of age he had grey hair. He had grey hair but these days of course as a man with such means he would have the Just for Men and he would have dark hair like Tom Rutherford and I—Tom Rutherford and I will never go grey. Unfortunately for McLean there was not the technology to colour his hair. So to answer that very insightful question of the colouring of his hair: at the time he reached the big age of 85 photographic evidence shows him with grey hair. And of course like most of that generation and that time Tim Costley bearded—a bit like our MP for Maungakiekie.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): I think the member is straying from the bill.CAMERON BREWER: I am talking about the centre of this institute the late the great Allan McLean who sailed here on the ship Tory built a fabulous house left a fabulous legacy and today we improved the institute's direction and definition and it continues on not just for the 20th century and 21st century but well into the 22nd century as well. Thank you.