LARGE BEQUESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 15 May 1926, Page 11

LARGE BEQUESTS.

CHURCH AND SOCIAL PURPOSES. MARYBOROUGH MAN'S WILL. (By TelejrapV.— Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. The estate of the late Mr. William Pollard, of Delta Station, has been sworn at £60,000 net. The principal public bequests are as follow: — £1000 to the Church of the Nativity, Blenheim. £.">OO to the Anglican Church. Renwicktown. £>00 to the Salvation Army for use in Marlborough district. £.">OO to the National War Funds Council for the benefit or relief of blinded soldiers. £400 in fulfilment of a promise of f<soo to the Marlborough Patriotic Association. £288 in fulfilment of a promise of £-500 to the Marlborough Acclimatisation Society. £100 to the new Nelson Cathedral. £7CtK) to the Blenheim Borough, in completion of the testator's undertaking to purchase YVaterlea Park for the borough, together with an option to the Blenheim Club to purchase certain property adjoining the club at a nominal figure. There are many handsome private bequests to old friends in various parts of New Zealand, together with substantial legacies to a step-sister residing in New South Wales, and to nieces and nephews in England, who are also the residuary legatees. Interesting bequests are of a motor car each and two gold nuggets each to the Blenheim branch of the Plunket Society and the Picton branch of the Xavy. League, with the suggestion, but not the direction, that they be disposed of by art union.