Charitable Bequests Made In Two Wills

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 20

Charitable Bequests Made In Two Wills

Bequests amounting to £2150 have been made to various religious and charitable organisations in Christchurch and further afield under the will of Peter Paul Justin Amodeo, a Christchurch solicitor, who died on January 19. The following organisations will each receive £100: Nazareth House (Christchurch), Mount Magdala Convent (Halswell), St. Joseph’s Boys’ Home (Halswell), Calvary Hospital (Christchurch), the Mill Hill Fathers for Maori Missions (Auckland), the St. Columban Missionary Society (Lower Hutt), the Carmelite Monastery (Christchurch). St. Mary’s Convent (Christchurch), the Marist Brothers Order (Christchurch), the Mary Potter Hospice of Calvary Hospital (Christchurch), the Brothers of St. John of God (Christchurch), the Home of Compassion (Timaru), the Jesuit Seminary (Riccarton), the Redemptorist Monastery (Christchurch), the Sisters of the Mission (Christchurch), the Sisters of St. Joseph (Shirley), the Crippled Children Society (Canterbury and Westland branch), the New Zealand Tuberculosis Association; (Canterbury and West-

land branch), and the Institute for the Blind (Christchueh).

A bequest of £250 has also been made to the Mari st Brothers Trust Board (Auckland).

Further Bequests

Further similar bequests, amounting to £7OO, have been made under the will of Catherine McCusker, a spinster, who died at Christchurch on March 4. The organisations benefitting are:

St. Mary’s Church building fund (£100). St. Marv’s St Vincent de Paul Society (£100). Nazareth House (£100), the Mary Potter Hosnice of Calvary Hospital (£100). the Calvary Hospital day clinic (£100), the Salvation Army in Wellington (£5O). the Carme' ! te Monastery (£5O), the Brothers of St John of God (£5O). St Marv’s Church (£5O). The balance of her estate Miss McCusker has beciuecthed to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (the Most Rev. B P. Ashby) for charitable, religious, and education purposes. Probate of both wills was recently granted in the Supreme Court.