GENEROUS BEQUESTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 63, 12 February 1936, Page 4

GENEROUS BEQUESTS

HOSPITALS BENEFIT. Per Press Association. ASHBURTON, Feb. 11. The late Miss Jane Chalmers left the following bequests: —Presbyterian Aged Ministers’ Fund, £SOOO ; 1 resbytcriaii. Orphanages, £5000; <St. oaviour’s Guild Orphanage, £5000; Salvation Army, £5000: Jubilee Institute for the Blind, £5000; City of Perth Infirmary, Scotland, for the erection or an establishment and the endowment of a wing or ward, £20.000; North Canterbury Hospital Board, in trust, the income to be used for maintenance in the Chalmers Ward, Christchurch, of such persons as the trustees deem fit, the balance of the income to be paid to the board for general maintenance and upkeep of the Chalmers Ward, £10,000; Ashburton Hospital Board, in trust, the income to be used for the endowment, maintenance and upkeep of the women’s ward at Ashburton, £IO,OOO. The residue of the estate is to be invested and the income divided equally between the Ashburton and Christchurch Hospital Boards. It is estimated that the residue will produce at least £20,000 more for each of these

,• milrinff total endowments +'qn (100 each' Miss Chalmers had no £30,000 eacn. to the Fm-th Infirmary was made because Perth was the home of her ancestor*