Big Sum for Charitable Institutions

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7242, 23 August 1933, Page 6

Big Sum for Charitable Institutions

LEGACIES UNDER AUCKLAND WOMAN’S WILL Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Application has been made for probate of tho will of Mrs Catherine Smith, who died on August 12 at tho age of S 4. The value of the estate is sworn at £130,000 and about half has been set aside for charitable purposos. Mrs Smith was the widow of tho late Captain James Smith, of James Smith and Company, who was very well known in shipping and coal-min-ing circles. After making substantial provision in her will for relatives, Mrs Smith left to religious and charitablo institutions tho following legacies, totalling £6200: Tabernacle Church £SOO, Tabernacle Sunday School £SOO, Bible Training Institute £SOO, Baptist Women’s Missionary Union £SOO, Baptist Missionary Society £SOO, Baptists’ aged ministers’ fund £SOO, Children’s Orphans* Home (Manurewa) £250, Salvation Army £250, Young Men’s Christian Association £250, Bible Society (Auckland branch) £IOO, Auckland Free Kindergarten School (Freemans Bay) £100; Knox Homo for Incurables £200; St. John Ambulance Society £2OO, St. James ’ Presbyterian Church Sunday School £SOO, St. James’ Presbyterian Church £SOO, Auckland Ladies' Benevolent Society £IOO, Society for Protection of Women and Children £SO, Baptist College, Mount Hobson, £2OO. Further provision having been made for other relatives, the .trustee is directed to apply the residue in making other bequests to institutions, societies or objects established in or about Auckland for charitable, benevolent, educational or religious purposes. Tho residue thus available is estimated to bo about £60,000.