CHARITABLE BEQUESTS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32219, 11 February 1970, Page 14

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS

$70,000 Given Bequests totalling $70,000 have been made to church and charitable organisations in Christchurch under the will; of Percy William Fryer, a retired civil engineer—and a former engineer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board—who died on December 10 last.

The chief bequest is one of j 550.000 to the Social Service ; Council of the Diocese of;t Christchurch, to be applied jj “in such manner as the coun- ’ cil in its absolute discretion j thinks fit in, and towards i< the provision of homes forl< elderly people.” Mr Fryer also left $12,000 < to the Church Property Trustees of the diocese—slo,ooo to extend the fabric of the Christchurch Cathedral and $2OOO for the general religious; and charitable purposes of the Community of the Sacred Name, Barbadoes Street Other Bequests Other bequests under Mr Fryer’s will are $4OOO to the Aged People’s Welfare Council (for its general purposes), and £2OOO to the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association. Sums of $lOOO have been left to the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind and the Canterbury and Westland branch of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society. ; Mr Fryer’s will also con-; tains substantial private be-; quests. Probate of the will has been granted in the Supreme Court; to the executor, the Public, Trustee