BEQUESTS OF £3OOO
INDIGENT WOMEN FUND AUCKLANDER’S GIFTS A capital bequest of £2500 to the Auckland Young Women’s Christian Association is provided for in the will of Mrs. Cecilia Annie Smith, of R.emuera, Auckland, whose death occurred, on March 3. This sum is to be invested and the income applied by the association for the benefit of indigent gentlewomen in such maimer as the president, treasurer and secretary shall think fit. Mrs. Smith has also left a gift of £250 for the general purposes of the association. There are several other bequests of a public nature in the will, these consisting of gifts of £2OO to the Metho-' dist Women’s Auxiliary for the Work in the Solomon Islands and in the home mission society, £l5O for the New Zealand branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, £IOO to the Kurahuna Methodist Maori Girls’ School at Onehunga, and £SO each to the sick fund of the Auckland Trained Nurses’ Association and to the Presbyterian Church at St. Heliers. For purposes of probate the estate has been valued at under £7BOO.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20223, 16 April 1940, Page 13
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180BEQUESTS OF £3000 Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20223, 16 April 1940, Page 13
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