PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 274, 16 November 1905, Page 6

PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANAGE.

MUNIFICENT AUCKLAND BEQUEST.It, was reported to the Presbyterian Genera] Assembly last night that nego- i Uations had been concluded between thai Presbyterian Orphanage Oanhnittee and xhe Leslie Trustees, as a result of which the erection of an orphanage in Auckland for the Presbyterian orphans oi'j New Zealand will be accomplished in the! near future. The Rev. H. P.. Gray presented the, report of the Orphanage Committee, i twhieh showed that the Leslie Orphanage j Trustees, viz.. llev. G. E. Monro (chair--man), Messrs W. Frazer. George Heron, j J. M. Barr, and W. Coleman, believing j that it would be in the best interests of! their Trust that it should have 4he ■ countenance, aid and assistance of the General Assembly, had unanimously arrived ax the following conclusions, viz.: j. ••1. The Leslie Orphanage Trustees would ! be willing that tie General Assembly should nominate not more than four persons to be added to the number oi ■ the Leslie Orphanage Trustees, provided | they and any details incident to their appointment he first approved by the present trustees. 2. That it would prob- ] iibly be best, in order to carry out any j such arrangement as is proposed, that | the Leslie Orphanage Trustees should be j formed into an Incorporated Board, with j perpetual succession.. ,, i In moving that these recommendations be adopted" the Rev. H. B. Gray said the duty of the committee Jaid upon them by the Assembly was to raise funds for -an orphanage, and to negotiate with, the Lesb'e Trustees to see if their scheme could be amalgamated. The members came *.Q the unanimous conclusion that in the meantime they would snake no public appeal fox fnuds, the first thing to be done being to secure the amalgamation desired by the Assembly. The committee had been met by the trustees frankly and generously, and in the report they had the result. The Rev. G. B. Monro explained that the late Mr Leslie, a member of his ' cDngregation, left £5000 in his will to ' found a Presbyterian Orphanage. This ■was 1C years ago. Since then the trustees, of whom he was chairman, had used some of the interest to pay for the . boarding out of orphans, and the money had been gradually accumulating. A lady in Mount Eden left £ 1000. so that J they "had £7000 now in hand. It had come to the ears of the trustees that . two ladies in Auckland (and they had i generous people in Auckland, as they .could see; had placed the orphanage in , their wills. (Applause.) The trustees ; had decided to build when th_rv could ■ get £10.000. Mr Leslie's wish was that ; the orphanage should be in Auckland, ; and that was the recommendation of the committee, which also recommended that ] the name should be the Leslie Presby- ! terian Orphanage. He said tie trustees should form themselves into a Board, aud' gradually the "whole thing would ' become under the wing of the Assembly. The new institution, he concluded, amid ' applause, would bg a Presbyterian Orpuanage for New Zealand. The resolution was agreed, to. ',