PUBLIC BEQUESTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 15

PUBLIC BEQUESTS

AUCKLAND WILLS

(By Telegraph—Press. Association.)

AUCKLAND, February 1

, Numerous public bequests are provided for in wills of which probate | has been granted in the Supreme Court. - ,i Under the will of Reginald Montague Vane Abbott, retired, of St. Heliers, £500 is bequeathed to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind. In addition, sums of £100 are bequeathed.to the Auckland branch of the Navy League, the Auckland branch of the Victoria League, the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, the Community Sunshine Association, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, and £50 to the New Zealand Crippled Children's Fund. The estate has beett valued at under £6450. " ] Among bequests in the will of Mrs. Christina Henderson .Wigg, of Stanley Point, are £500 to assist in the build-, ing in lasting material at O'Neill's Point Cemetery, a lych gate or shelter for visitors, this to be subject to the approval of the Devonport and Taka«' puna Borough Councils. It is to have an inscription to the effect that it was donated. Further sums of. £250 each are left to the Knox Home for Incui> ables for comfortable chairs, couches, and seats for patients; to the Salvation Army in New Zealand for its general purposes; to the New Zealand' Institute for the Blind; to .the Eventide" Home for aged ladies at Mount Edeu, and to the Auckland Hospital. Board for general maintenance purposes. • Mr. John William Ryan, commercial traveller, has bequeathed the whole of' his mortuary benefit fund with the Auckland Commercial'Travellers and Warehousemen's Association to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, to be distributed in its absolute discretion. Thtestate is valued at under £18.000. , i