HAWERA WOMAN’S BEQUESTS OVER £12,000

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1949, Page 7

HAWERA WOMAN’S BEQUESTS OVER £12,000

HAWERA, Feb. 21

An amount estimated between .£12,000 and £15,000 has been bequeathed for the “cultural, educational and physical development of the people of Hawera and the surrounding district” by the late Miss Catherine Marion Buchanan, who died at Hawera on December 21. The trustees are empowered to apply to the trust fund wholly or in part to the erection and equipment of a youth centre, museum, art gallery on other public amenity. A number of Dominion-wide organisations and charities, with which the deceased was associated, will benefit by bequests totalling £2300, which include: Presbyterian Church for its orphanages, £1000; Presoyterian Women’s t Missionary Union, £200; Mission to Lepers, £500; British Foreign Bible Society, £200; Overseas League, £200; Dr Barnardo’s Homes £lOO. The late Miss Buchanan gave £68,000 to various organisations less than two years ago and with her sister, Miss J. Buchanan, of Hawera, founded the Buchanan Trust for Exservicemen of South Taranaki with a gift of £20,000 soon after the outbreak of World War 11. More than 900 ex-servicemen have already benefited by disbursements totalling £13,000. ’ r, • A f n Miss Buchanan was born m Austialia. Her father, Mr Donald Buchanan, later farmed with his brother. Sir Walter Buchanan, in the Wairarapa, the family then moving to Hawera in 1878, farming in the vicinity of the °On the death of their father, 36 years ago, Misses Buchanan moved to Hawera, where they had since lived in retirement.