SCHOOL OF PACIFIC STUDY

Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 14

SCHOOL OF PACIFIC STUDY

PROFESSOR MAGMILLAK BROWN'S GIFTS l RESIDUE OF ESTATE REVERTS TO CANTERBURY COLLEGE [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, January 32. Tire establishment of a School of Pacific Ocean Studies, where the peoples and racial movements of the Pacific may be observed and studied and where New Zealanders may bo fitted for the administration of Pacific territories, is provided for in the will of Professor Macmillan Brown. The school will be established at Canterbury College. Most of the residue of the estate, which will be sworn at under £70,000, will revert to Canterbury College. Tire will appoints the Perpetual Trustees, Estate, and Agency Company of Now Zealand Ltd., as executor and trustee, and also names Mr M 7. IX Campbell, of Timnru, barrister, Mr H. P. von Haast, of Wellington, barrister, as associate trustees, and Miss V. Macmillan Brown is appointed literary trustee. After providing for members of his family by way of legacies, annuities, and specific gifts, Professor Macmillan Brown makes gifts to Canterbury College for the museum of the School of Pacific Ocean Studies all his Pacific Ocean curios and ethnological specimens. He also leaves to the college his library, stipulating that it be kept intact and bo known, as the Macmillan Brown Library. To house it an expenditure of £2,300 is authorised and an expenditure from the income of £3OO to keep the library np to date. One-third of the income from the residue is earmarked for the publication of the books or manuscripts of Professor Macmillan Brown, this work being in the hands of the library trustee