GENEROUS BEQUESTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23057, 7 December 1936, Page 4

GENEROUS BEQUESTS

SEVERAL CHARITIES BENEFIT ESTATE OF MRS JANET TILBURN Several charitable institutions will benefit considerably as the result of generous bequests made under the will of Mrs Janet Tilburn, formerly licensee of the Crown Hotel, whose estate for probate purposes is sworn at under £50.000! After making allowance for numerous private bequests, the will directs that the residue of the estate shall be divided into six equal parts, which will be dealt with as follows: One-part to the Salvation Army Maternity Hospital, "Redroofs." One-part to the Presbyterian Church, Sawyers' Bay. . One-part to the trustees of the Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund, to be applied by them in association with the Jubiiee Institute for the Blind for the purpose of assisting blind men to become established in useful occupations. One-part to the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Dunedin branch). , ■■'■' One-part to the Presbyterian Social Service Association, to be used for the general purposes of the Glendining Home at Anderson's Bay. One-part to the Presbyterian Social Service Association, to be used for the general Durposes of the Ross Home at North-East Valley. A gift is also made to the Dunedin Art Gallery of two oil paintings of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns. '