£60,000 BEQUEST

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1935, Page 5

£60,000 BEQUEST

I FOR A CATHEDRAL By Auckland Anglican (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND May 10. By a public-spirited bequest of ap proximo*ely £6o.l'ou provided in the w ilk of the late Ali>- Alina l air Hor ton, of Remuera, whose death occur red on May 3, an early commence ment of a permanent Angl can Cathe dial for Auckland i< assured A condition of the bequest is that »hr Ca'h •- dral shall he erected on a site in. Parnell bought for the purpose b v Bishop Selwyn 92 years ago. <'m signs must be called for. and 'he building be commenced wi Lin ten '•ears from the date of Miss Horton’s d-ath. The site referred to. which h: s b.-ea held for the original purpose ev.-r since Bishop Selwyn purchased i consists of six ami a-half at re s of land, with frontage s to Parnell Ro.n<i, St. Stephen’s Avenue and Briglron Rond.- It is opposite the present St. Mary’s Cathedral, and includes tbsp o of the Parnell Tennis Club's courts. Miss Horton’s w'll dire-ts -hat her residuarv estate, -which it is estimated, will amount to £60.090 aft -"• tl. •* payment of duties, shall be di-d-lei by her trustees into four parts. Ono of these l s made subject to a life interest. The other throe. wi;h the .m

cumulated income therefrom, are t•> be held bv the trustees for the Co.the dral building fund- and are to bo pn to the General Trust Board of the Auckland Diocese. When certain conditions have bpn n fulfilled on the termination of the life interest, 'he umnining fourth part is t n bo nv r -r in the same way. Tho will fur the* directs the trustees, when thev are satisfied the Cathedral is to be bu'lt on the Parnell site to pay out of tho trust fund a sum not exceeding £lO9O for an accepted competitive design for the Cathedral The design mu * be accep'ed by the General Tru? Board, or other controlling anthor't". within seven years of the testator’s death, and the building must bo commenced within ten years of her dea'h. Tf these are not fulfilled, or if tho trustees are not satisfied a* the end of ten vears tha‘ the building will be properly carried on to a completed state, the bequest (except as regards payment for the dos'gn. if one has been shall ]?■» -o and the residuary estate shall be hell by the trustees upon certain other trusts specified in the will. The c--><■ tinn of an Anglican Cathedral worthy of the largest citv in Now Zealand has beofl an aspiration for mr.nv vears past, biit until the announcement of Miss Horton’s boqn n st. *t has not been within measurable distance of realisation.