BENEFICENT BEQUESTS

Northern Advocate, 20 February 1926, Page 5

BENEFICENT BEQUESTS

i l FROM MARSDEN ESTATE. NELSON, This Day. | The- late Mr Jaraen Marsden made handsome bequests to the Anglican Church and other religious educational bodies. The benefactions include land and residence at Stoke as a -permanent residence for the Bishop of Nelson and his successors- £4OOO to the new Cathedral fund; an area of land at ■Stoke to the Cawthron Institute for experimental work; also a valuable collection of books, forming the nucleus of a reference library in New Zealand history. The sum of £llOO is given to the Salvation Army, and the interest from certain English colliery shares to Dr. Barnado's Homes; also £3OO to the infimary at Whitehaven, Cumberland. The sum of £6OOO is given to the Board of Missions and £4IOO to the Melanesian Missions. The residur ary estate is devised as follows: —One half to the Nelson Diocesan Trust Board, one quarter to the Salvation Army and one quarter to the Cawthron Institute*—GPress Assn.

r' Mr James Wilfred Marsden, of j"lscV Stoke, was 81 years of age. Ho was a, welllcnown and highly, re- ! sported resident. Born in Nelson jn 1844, he was one of -the first pupils at Nelson College. He gave substantial financial support to the Nelson diocese. Recently he gave to the Cawthron Institute 64 acres of valuable land at Stoke for experiments in -agriculture and forestry, Ms main object being the encouragement of research in the many and varied problems which beset the fanner in Iris work.