BACHELOR'S WILL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 24

BACHELOR'S WILL

' ..'.»' I. ■ LARGE ESTATE TO PUBLIC USE <Ev Telegraph—Press Association.) , INVERCARGILL, This Day. Public bequests absorbing most of an estate of about £80,000 are provided for in the will of Frederick James Dyer, of Mossburn, who died on Boxing Day. Personal bequests to the amount- of £7200 are made, and the remainder is. divided in public bequests, mostly in Southland. The bequests are:—Wallace Hospital Board, to be used in the upkeep of a home for the aged. £300; Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland, £500; Lumsden Church of England, £200; Anglican Orphans' College, Dunedin, £500; Plunket Society, Southland branch and Wallace branch, each £1000; Salvation Army £1000; prizes for the encouragement of handwriting in schools in Wallace County," £500; fund for send- j ing the children of indigent residents j of Wallace County to high school, ! £10,000. • Death duties will absorb about £14,000, and the residue of about j £40,000 is to go three-quarters to the .Wallace Hospital Board and one-quar-ter to the Southland Hospital Board. Since the making of the will these boards Jiaye . been amalgamated and are now known "as the Southland pital-Board-.---------The late Mr. Dyer, who was a bachelor, was for many years a member of the Wallace Hospital Board.