CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 97, 22 October 1908, Page 5

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

k ■ ■•■.■'•■' .- .... .-,<!!.. —^— ■ • ■ ■ ■ ••-.•■ [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] : AUCKLAND, last night, ■ The late Mrs Elizabeth Knox left ■ £91,500, of which £44,000 has been * bequeathed specifically to, various local i charitable and public institutions; A i iurthet £25,000 has also been left at » the disposal of .the; TJruste.es. to spend i for charitable purposes. . The items » rang©; frofii sums of £500 for'sach i»---l stitutions. as the Veterans' Home and > the Sailors' Hpme us> to as high as ■ £20,000 for, a hospital for incurables. > A sum of £2500, -is left to bbild a ■ night shelter for homeless men. Mrs JKLnox dii act leave - *»- I ?2 r .euil-.iroii. Her nearest surviving relitiv-isaT« ■ her nephew, Mr George Russell, .of > College Hill, Miss Russell who re- I [ sided with her aunt, and Mrs Jartios f McGlee, of Pitt street I