AMUSEMENT FOR PATIENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1938, Page 8

AMUSEMENT FOR PATIENTS

HOSPITAL LEGACY VALID. LONDON, March 17. By his will, Mr. Robert George Hovenden, who died in March, 1937, gave £l,OOO each to the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney, and the National Benevolent Institution. Mr. Hovenden directed that the money should be invested, and the yearly. income used “to provide some form of amusement to be settled by a committee of five of the. patients of each institution.” Asked in the Chancery Division yesterday to decide whether the gifts were valid, Mr. Justice Simonds said that there was no question that the first was a good chraitable bequest. The National Benevolent Institution was clearly a charitable one, but it could not carry out the terms of the will, because it had no patients, and existed to provide pensions for persons in reduced circumstances. Mr. Justice Simonds decided that this gift prevailed, although’ the particular charitable purpose indicated had failed. There was a good charitable gift to each institution. ‘“How do you like my new dress, darling?” said Miss Gush. “Very smart.” replied her dearest friend. “It suits your personality, my dear. Oh, but that hat," “What’s 1 the matter with my hat?” "Well, it looks to me as if it had made a forced landing.” Billy, aged six, was having a holiday. his school being closed on account of chicken-pox. “Have you ever had chicken-pox, Keith?” asked Billy. Keith, aged four, was not to be outdone. “Oh, no,” he said airly, “but I’ve had egg on toast.”