GIFT OF £16,500

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26199, 9 July 1946, Page 4

GIFT OF £16,500

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDENTS The gift of £16.500 made to various funds of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church by the Very Rev. Adam Begg, formerly of Highfield, Tirnaru, is reported in the Outlook, the official organ of the church. Mr Begg is the son of well-known Otago pioneers, and was moderator of his church in 1932. He resigned from the active ministry m 1933. In making the gifts, Mr Begg says that it has become possible for him to pay over amounts that he had intended to leave as legacies in his will. The largest of the seven gifts is £BSOO to found a travelling scholarship for students for the ministry, to be known as the William and Catherine Begg Travelling Scholarship in memory of his father and mother, whose industry and thrift made the gift possible. Other gifts are £3OOO to be used at the discretion of the assembly for the dissemination of teaching to build* up a strong, eager, and informed church, and £IOOO each to the Otago Presbyterian Church Centennial Memorial Fund for a new Theological Hall block at Knox College, to the South Canterbury Presbyterial Social Service Association for establishing a home for the aged at Tirnaru, for church development in new housing areas, to the reserve fund of the maintenance of the ministry fund, and to the ministers’ loan fund.

Mr Begg’s father came to Otago as a boy of seven in 1848, and subsequently owned the well-known Hillend Station near Balclutha.