PUBLIC BEQUESTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21746, 31 March 1936, Page 10

PUBLIC BEQUESTS

£21,700 SET ASIDE Is. x

WILL

SUM OF £12,000 FOR KNOX

COLLEGE

[THE PRESS Special Service.]

DUNEDIN, March 30,

Public bequests, amounting to £ 21,700 are made under the will of Mrs Mary Linson Glendining, whose estate has been sworn for probate at less than £70,000. Mrs Glendining, whose death occurred on March 19, was the widow of Robert Glendining, one of the founders of the firm of Ross and Glendining, Ltd. The principal bequest under the will is a sum of £12,000 to the council of Knox College, a residential college controlled by the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. This amount is 4o form an endowment fund, and conditions attached to the bequest provide that the college shall not be restricted to students for the ministry or to members of the Presbyterian Church, but shall be open to students of all faculties and denominations. Other bequests amounting to £BSOO have been made to the Presbyterian Church for various purposes. Legacies totalling £I2OO have been made to other institutions, and the will_a!so provides for special benefits for certain employees and the payment of - a sum to each of-the remaining employees according to length, of service. The bequests to the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand*are as follows: £ Knox College Council .. 12,000 Presbyterian Social Service Association .. .. 1,000 Aged and Infirm Ministers' Fund .. .. 2,000 Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union, for the benefit of single women missionaries who are incapacitated from missionary work by old age or illhealth .. .. 1,000 Foreign missions in China, and the establishment of a residence for nurses of the Presbyterian Hospital in Canton, the residence to be called • "The Glendining Home' .. .. 1,000 For the good work of the Church in India .. 1,000 A fund, the income from which is to be used for the training of women for the service of the church in New Zealand or foreign missions .. .. 1,500 A fund to be called "The Mary Glendining Book Fund," the income to be used to help servants of the church whose salaries are too small to enable'them to purchase suitable books, a condition of the fund Jbeing that each person who benefits shall pay, half the cost of the books .. .. 1,000 Th,e remaining bequests are as follows:

James Powell Rest Home .. 200 Salvation Army (Dunedjn branch) .. ..200 Young Women's Christian As-

sociation ' .. .. 500 Knox Church Deacons' Court 300