CHARITABLE BEQUEST

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1935, Page 5

CHARITABLE BEQUEST

FOB CANTERBURY. (Per Press Association.-) TIMARU, February 11. Bequests totalling £1,395, chiefly to Catholic organisations in Canterbury, are made in the will of the late John Meehan, of Waimate, who left an estate ‘O? £47,000. The chief items are:—£loo to the Sisters of Mercy, South Dunedin; £lOO to the Catholic Sisters of the Poor, £loo to the New Zealand I/sfttute for the Blind, at Auckland; land £lOO to the Catholic Sisters of the Third Order Regular 'of Mary, who are at Makogai Island, for the purposes of the Leper Station. After providing for an annuity, the residue is bequeathed to a trustee inperpetuity, upon the trust to npplv the ineojne eaeh y\ar for such charitable purposes anj objects in the provincial district of Canterbury as the Catholic Bishop of Christchurch shall direct.