PIONEER'S BEQUESTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21289, 16 September 1932, Page 13

PIONEER'S BEQUESTS

PUBLIC PARK AT TAMAKI PROVISION FOR THE FUTURE GIFT TO JUBILEE INSTITUTE Under the will of the late Mrs. Sarah Jane Lushington, of Rangitoto Avenue, Remuera, who died on August 2, provision is made, after the satisfying of certain life interests, for the setting apart of a public park and recreation reserve of 100 acres from her Gfreenmount estate at East Tamaki. Mrs. Lushington, who died in her 87th year, had resided in the Auckland province since 1848, and the Greenmount estate was purchased by her father, the late Mr. Styak.

Mrs. Lushington has left this 100-acre park to be administered ultimately by the Manukau County Council and her expressed wish is to have it laid out in playing areas and camping grounds for the benefit of the public. The trustees are directed to cai'ry on the estate as at present until various liabilities have been met and until after the death of certain relatives of the testator. The park is to be known as the Styat-Lushington Park.

Another important gift provided in Mrs. Lushington's will, subject to two life interests, is that of her f-reehold property at Rangitoto Avenue, Remuera. After the death of her niece, Mrs. E. G. Wynyard, and Mrs. Wynyard's daughter, the property is to be handed over to the trustees of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind. The gift is made in memory of the testator's mother, Mrs. Styak, who suffered from blindness.

Further clauses in the will provide for a gift of five acres from the Greenmount estate to the Presbyterian Church at Otara, one acre to be for a manse and church and four for a cemetery, if allowed by law, but otherwise to be used by the Presbyterian Church property trustees for general purposes. The whole estate is valued for probate purposes at under £15,000.