MAUREEN PUGH (National): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I stand in support of the Incorporated Societies Bill tonight in its first reading. As we've heard from many of the speakers on this bill, most of us have had some experience in our own communities about being involved in incorporated societies. I do note the many examples that have been given tonight. But I'd just like to run through some of the 23,000—I'm not going to read them all—incorporated societies that do appear on the register. What they do is they represent sporting bodies like New Zealand Rugby—that has a reported income of $162 million a year—and then it ranges back to things like the war memorial societies, with maybe $5,000 or $6,000 income a year. This bill covers a huge range of activities—cultural, sporting, education, a lot of social services, incorporated societies, philanthropy organisations, emergency relief, environmental protection, animal protection, and religious. So when we're talking about this bill, we're actually talking about a huge influence that incorporated societies have in New Zealand.