Gill J:

This is a suit for a declaration that the Kwang Hwa High School, Klang is entitled to 30 acres (or an undivided 4,800/9,985 shares) of the second defendants' land held under Certificate of Title No. 25889 for Lot 3476 in the Mukim of Bukit Raja, District of Klang, Selangor, for an order that the second defendants do transfer to the first three plaintiffs as trustees of the said school the said undivided share in the said land or any other order which this Court may think fit and equitable to grant, and for damages against the defendants.

The action was commenced by the first three plaintiffs as the alleged trustees and principal officers of and on behalf of the Kwang Hwa High School, Klang. The Attorney General subsequently gave his consent in writing, under the provisions of s. 9 of the Government Proceedings Ordinance, 1956 relating to charitable trusts, for the institution of these proceedings and for him to be joined as the fourth plaintiff.

The facts of the case are as follows. In the year 1954 approximately 75 residents of Klang constituted themselves into a committee known as the Kwang Hwa High School Building Committee, with the first defendant as cha