CHARITABLE GIFTS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 60, 4 December 1933, Page 8

CHARITABLE GIFTS

Annual Distribution LATE MRS. AMES’S ESTATE The annual distribution under the Sarfih. Hurford Ames Trust is announced 'by the Public Trustee, Mr. J. W. McDonald, C.M.G., who states that, with the approval and concurrence of Mr, Douglas- Jackson, the advisory trustee in the .estate, allocations for 1933 have been made to the following homes and institutions: — £ St. Barnabas Babies’ Home Society, Khandallah 3 St Mary’s Guild, Karori 20 Anglican Boys’ Homes Society, Lower Hutt 8 Wellington City Mission 12 Home for the Aged Needy 12 Victoria Home 15 Ohiro Home , 30 Salvation Army Eventide Home for Aged Ladies 7 Salvation Army Women’s Industrial Home 5 Home of Compassion, Island Bay .. 10 St. Joseph’s Home for Incurables .. 9 Returned Soldiers’ Assn, (inmates Ewart Hospital) 10 The late Mrs. Sarah Hurford Ames, who died in 1929, directed by her will that part of the annual income from her residuary estate should be annually distributed to homes and other institutions in the city and suburbs of Wellington for poor and indigent children conducted by the Church of England, and to homes and other institutions for the care and welfare of aged or infirm persons of either sex by whomsoever conducted. Mrs. Ames expressed a wish that the distribution should be arranged so that It would roach the institutions, participating during the first fortnight in the month of December, to the intent that the in mates would be enabled to enjoy the benefit of the income at Christmas time in each year. The late Mrs. Ames was esteemed for her charitable gifts, acts and kindnesses during her lifetime, including of the gift of the gates giving access to the Wellington East Girls’ College.