BEQUESTS BY PIONEER
AUCKLAND AND MATAMATA ORGANISATIONS
(By Telegraph-Press Association]
AUCKLAND, 20th June.
Bequests amounting to £2450 benefiting institutions and organisations in Auckland and Matamata are included in the will of the late Mr Allen Alfred Bowler, a pioneer settler in the Te Aroha district, who died in May last. The will makes provision for £IOOO for the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, “to be expended by the executive for the relief of returned soldiers incapacitated wholly or partially in consequence of service during the late war.
Other amounts bequeathed are as follows: £6OO to the controlling authority of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind; £4OO toward the building fund for a new Anglican church at Matamata; £250 to the Matamata Bowling Club; £2OO to the Boy Scouts’ organisation at Matamata.
The residue of the estate is left to the controlling authority of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind at Auckland.
The above bequests were left free of duty.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 6
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