CHARITABLE BEQUESTS
A PIONEER'S ESTATE
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS BENEFIT
• Per United Press Association)
AUCKLAND, June 20
Bequests amounting to £2450, benefiting institutions and organisations in Auckland and Matamata, are included in the will of 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 /holly, 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 towards a building fund for the 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, Auckland. All the bequests were left free of duty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23222, 21 June 1937, Page 6
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157CHARITABLE BEQUESTS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23222, 21 June 1937, Page 6
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