HELP FOR POOR AND NEEDY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 10

HELP FOR POOR AND NEEDY

Ashburton Man’s Bequest INCOME FROM £20,500 FOR CHURCH AND CHARITY By Telegraph—Press Association. ClirisMuircli. April 19. The income from about £20,500 is to be applied in perpetuity to church organisations and charities in Canterbury under the will of Mr. Robert Clark, Ashburton, whose death occurred early this month. Subject to certain prior interests, the will provides that the income from £2500, to be known as the Ada Mary Clark Trust Fund, is to be paid in perpetuitv one-fourth each to the following: The vicar of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Ashburton for Anglican foreign missions; St. Saviour's Trust Board, Christchurch, for orphanage purposes; St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Ashburton, , for the general purposes thereof; the New Zealand Institute for the Blind. . The income from the net residue of the estate, estimated at £lB,OOO, to be known as the Robert Clark Trust Fund, is to be applied in perpetuity for or toward assisting such poor and needy persons, irrespective of race, creed, class, or colour, in the provincial district of Canterbury or such institutions established in the said provincial district for the relief, maintenance, and assistance of poor and needy persons in such a manner as a board to be constituted for the purpose shall direct. The board will consist of the Public Trustee or his nominee, the mayor for the time being of the borough of Ashburton, the vicar for the time being of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Ashburton, and the head for the time being of the Salvation Army in New Zealand or his or her nominee. The Public Trustee is appointed executor and trustee.