SIR JOHN HALL'S WILL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13945, 3 July 1907, Page 5

SIR JOHN HALL'S WILL

HANDSOME LEGACIES. (Pf. UI.ITBD PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) CIIRISTCIIURCH, July 2, Pro'bailo of t-ho will of the' late Sir Jolin Hall, K.C.M.G., was granted this morning. The following arc among;, the bequests: — Knighthood s tar and badge to t-ho Christohurch Museum; failing their accoptanec, to his oldest son and then to his oldest son's eldest son. Five hundred volumes of books to tho Canterbury College, for use -in tho publio library, the books to be selected by Eomo pereon or persons appointed by ' tho college. Correspondence, • manuscripts, parlianiehfary and other papers, accounts, ' diaries, newspapers and newspaper extracts, to ,T. D, Hall and W. H. Triggs for their determination as to which shall bo published. £100 to tho Church of England Mclanosian Mission. £100 to St. Mary's Home, Christehuroh. £100 to Mount Magdalene Asylum, Christohureh. £103 to tho Salvation Army.- Christ" church, for the purposes-of any industrial homo or other benevolent institution under control of tho Army. £100 to tho Ifeaconcsscs' Homo, Christehuroh. £100 .to tho Y.M.C.A., Christchurch. £100 to tho Y.W.C.A., Christchurch. ■ £100 to Archdeacon Soott for use in any religious or charitable purposo lie may select. |8100 to the New 'Zealand! Alliance, Wellington, £100 to the Yorkshire Society, Christohurdi. : £100 to the churchwardens of St. Luke's ,Church, Christohurch, for rebuilding purposes. . . ' £200 on trust to tho church property trustees, the interest to ba applied to the maintenance of the Sunday school of St. John's Church, Hororata. £2000 to the Chufrch Propovty Trustees on trust, tho interest-to t>o applied to tho stipend of the'vicar of St. John's, Hororata.

£25 to the Presbyterian Church property I trustees for tho support of Presbyterian worahiti at, Hororatiu £25 to iho president of the • Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia in Now Zealand for tho support of Methodist -Church worship at Glenroy. • £100 to the North Canterbiirv Education Board to construct o swimming batli at Hororat-a Publio School. £10,000, or such 'less sum as may .bo required, to build a brick or stone cburch at Hororat-a for Anjrlican worship, in place of the present wooden church, such church to bo dedicated to his Ute wife, and a wooden vicarage to be also constructed from tho 'amount. £30.000. the income from which to bo applied at, tho discretion of the trustees for charitable for tho provincial district of Canterbury. £10,000 for the establishment of . a public institution or benevolent, trust, to bo called tho. Boys' Gordon Hall Trust, to be managed by a, board - o[ tratecs. . Tho' .objects of the trust shall bo to provido instruction and amusement for the' boys of the citv of Christchu'rch and surrounding horouehs and districts within an area of six milm as the crow flics from the' Chief Post' Office, Christehurch, such ,bavs being between the ages of 12 and 18.. for their physical, mental, and spiritual improvement, £1009, free (of legacy, duty, to the Church Property Trustees for the erection of a ohapter house and synod hall'in the city rf Christohnreh. to he paid as soon ns sufficient funds havo been promised 'to justify the commencement of the work. Tho trustees under the will are Messrs H. Cottorill and G. T. Booth.