Public Bequests

Mt Benger Mail, 9 February 1938, Page 4

Public Bequests

NUMEROUS BENEFACTIONS ANNOUNCED THREE AUCKLAND ESTATES Auckland, Feb. 1. Numerous public bequests are provided for in wills of which probate has been granted in the Supreme Court. Under the will of Reginald Montague Vane Abbott, retired, of St. Heiiers, £SOO is bequeathed to the Auckland Institute for the Blind. In addition, sums of £IOO are bequeathed to the Auckland branch of the Navy League, the Auckland branch of the Victoria League, the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, the Community Sunshine Association, the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, and £SO to the New Zealand Crippled Children’s Fund. The estate has been valued at under £6,450.Among the bequests in the will of Mrs Christina Henderson Wigg, of Stanley Point, are £SOO to assist in building in lasting material at O’Neill’s Point Cemetery a lychgate or shelter for visitors, this to be subject to the approval of the Devonport and Takapuna Borough Councils. It is to have an inscription to the effect that it was presented. Further sums of £250 each are left to the Knox Home for Incurables for comfortable chairs, couches, and seats for patients, to the Salvation Army in New Zealand for its general purposes, to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, to the Eventide Home for Aged Women at Mount Eden, and to the Auckland) Hospital Board for general maintenance purposes. Mr John William Ryan, commercial traveller, has bequeathed the whole of his mortuary benefit fund with the Auckland Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association to the St. Vincent de Paul Society to be distributed in its absolute discretion. The estate is' valued at under £IB,OOO.