CHARITABLE BEQUESTS

Northern Advocate, 18 January 1936, Page 3

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS

MRS M. G. ADAMSON’S WILL t Special to “Northern Advocate.’’ 3 AUCKLAND, This Day. Under the will of Mrs Marianne Grace Adamson, of Auckland, who died on December 23, £4600 has been made available for charitable bequests. After providing for certain .private legacies, the will makes the following bequests to Auckland charities:— To St. John Ambulance Association, Auckland branch, £SOO, to be used for the district nurses’ fund for the poor of the city of Auckland; to Grey’s Avenue -Mission, controlled by Sister Hannah, £2OO, for the general purposes of the mission; to the Anglican Bishop of Auckland, £SOO, to be applied for the benefit of sick and needy clergymen; to All Saints’ Church, Ponsonby, £IOO, for the. benefit of the poor of the parish; to Beresford Street Congregational Church, £SO, for the general purposes of the work of Jts social workers. The proceeds from a house property are directed to be held for the Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage, Meadowbapk, subject to a prior life interest. The following bequests were made to English charities:—Dr. Barnado’s Home, £2OOO sterling; to the Pearson Fresh Air Fund for Children, London, £6OO sterling. The residue of the estate is to be divided equally between the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, Auckland, and the Home for the Aged and Needy, conducted at Herne Bay by the Little. Sisters of the Poor, in each case for the general purposes of the institutions.

These bequests are expected to be of substantial amounts.