CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 30 August 1929, Page 4

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

WILL OF EX-TARANAKI RESIDENT

(Uy Telegraph—rreas Association.)

AUCKLAND, August 29. Two charitable institutions in New Zealand will benefit considerably under the will of the late James Moir, who after retiring from farming at Koliuratalii, Taranaki, lived for Rome time in Auckland.

Mr. Moir died while on a holiday trip in Scotland on July 28. The Public Ti-ustee has been appointed executor of the will and the approximate net value of the estate for probate purposes is £II,OOO. _ The will provides for certain annuities and on the death of the annuitants the estate is to be divided equally among three charities. The Auckland organisation which will benefit under the will is the Leslie Presbytei’ian Orphanage. The money is to be invested and the income used for general xxiaintenance.

The widows, orphans and aged masons’ fund of the Ala sonic Lodge of New Zealand will benefit in a similar * manner and the remaining third of the estate will he invested for the parish council of Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the income used to train for trades or pi-ofessions children in the parish who have lost either father or mother. If there are no such applicants the income irs to be used for supporting the poor of the parish.