MR TREWIN’S WILL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 20 March 1930, Page 5

MR TREWIN’S WILL

FUND FOR STITHIANS £525 FOR ST. JOHN’S CHURCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS By Telegraph-Press Assn-Copyright (Anst. and N.Z. Cable) London, March 19. Inquiries in his native Cornish village of Stithians, t° which Mr James Trewin, according to a. cable message from Wellington, left £30,000 in crust for tile poor, show that there are few unemployed or cases otf real poverty, though there are many with slender earnings. The majority are engaged in granite quartying and agriculture. Mr. Trewin’.s sister. Miss Eliza Trewin, who is nearly 80 years of age, still lives at Stithians. Mr Trewin had a small shoemaker’s business there nearly 50 years ago. PROVISIONS IN DETAIL Mr Trewin, a. Cornisliman, of whose will the Public Trustee is executor, has directed that the residue of his estate, after providing for sundry bequests, shall be held foil* a period and then, with accumulations of income, invested, in the common fund of the Public Trust Office and the income arising therefrom paid for all time f;o the Board of Governors of the Thomas George Macarthy Trust for the relief of the indigent poor of the Parish of St. Stithians and of the city of Truro, both in Cornwall, England. It is estimated tl;i( the sum which will eventually bo administered by the Board of Governors Under the trust created by Mr Trewin will probably exceed £13,000.

In addition to the foregoing trust, Air Trewin provided for the following bequests to be paid after the death of his widow: £SO to the Anglican Church of St. Stithians, £IOOO to the said church of St. Stithians for the erection of a striking clock of four faces and for a set of pealing bolls and also the income on a sum of £SOO fo he applied for the upkeep of the said church and the clock andj bells, £SO to the United Methodist Free Church) at St. StTfliians, £SO to the Wesleyan Chapel of St. Stithians, £SO to the Wesleyan Church a,t Edgenmbe, Cornwall, £'soo to Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, £IOO to the Minors’ hospital, Redruth!, Cornwall, £IOO to the Women’s public hospital, Redruth, Cornwall, £IOO to the Infirmary, Truro, Cornwall. If the rebuilding of the Fending Church is commenced within a certain time, the rebuilding fund' null benefit under Air Trewin’s will to the extent of £525, in addition to a sum of £lO5 to he utilised in providing a stained glass window.