OTAGO BEQUEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 153, 29 June 1940, Page 6

OTAGO BEQUEST.

■ i TRUST FUND OF £20.000. IkV.'- ■'■■■ . »■,' '■'■ . ■ ?.,',• '•'(•■,' '. ' ... , CAPE OF ELDERLY .MEN". [J, (By Telegraph. Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. J^•''.' A'bequest involving a trust. fund esti- ?' mated to exceed . £20,000, was made . ;:_ under the will of Mrs. Hugh McGill- ;;,,/,', Brown,.who, as Miss Madge Emery, was jjftl>,' well-known in Dunedin. The trust is to t ,' v ' ho controlled by a board of trustees to "/;, ', be known a* the William Emery Trust '~.-, Board. Mrs. MoGill-Brown, who was a daughter of Mr. William Emery, was ?''.. , residing in Wellington when she died in December last. , The trust board is to apply the income '' ' ' of the trust fund for the relief, care and ;£i'f.'-: maintenance of elderly men of not less than 60 years of age residing in Dunedin or its suburbs who have resided or formerly resided in the province of Otago for a period of at least five years, and who may or may not be in indigent circumstances. '* The desire is expressed that persons to whom assistance is afforded should be &i Vt selected principally from retired pro- ;■'.. ', fessional or business men. It is estimated ';;*>* that the amount of the trust fund will [ .;. - ; ; exceed , £20,000. '.~:t.; ; • The 'board will comprise three persons, ;.,; ; one (of whom is to be the Anglican :; bishop for the time being of the diocese ' of Dunedin, another the minister of First ['- Church, and the third the president of the Rotary Club in Dunedin.