PUBLIC BEQUESTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26772, 15 May 1948, Page 8

PUBLIC BEQUESTS

BENEFACTIONS BY DUNEDIN RESIDENTS The estate of Mary Joan Macdonald, widow, of Dunedin, has been sworn for probate purposes at under £26,500. After some personal bequests have been made, the British Sailors’ Society, of 680 Commercial road, London, will benefit by £SOO to be used for widows and orphans of British seamen The New Zealand Institute for the Blind at Auckland will receive £SOO for general purposes. To be known as the Turnbull-Mac-donald Bequest, £2OO has been left to St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Oamaru, to be invested and the income used to provide good conduct prizes annually in the Sunday School. Similarly, under the Turnbull-Mac-donald Bequest, £2OO has been left to Knox Presbyterian Church, Dunedin. After the payment of death duties and costs, the residue of the estate goes upon trust to the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Under the will of Jean Stevenson, spinster, of Dunedin, whose estate has been sworn for probate purposes at under £7OOO, £SOO has been left to the Y.W.C.A at Wellington for the new building fund of the association and £SOO to the Y.W.C.A. at Melbourne, also for a new building fund. The Y.W.C.A. institutions at Bendigo, Victoria, and at Auckland will each benefit by £SO.