PUBLIC BEQUESTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27447, 21 July 1950, Page 5

PUBLIC BEQUESTS

Estate Of James Niven

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The will of James Niven, a retired school teacher of Dunedin, provides for several public bequests. The estate was sworn at under £15,000. The bequests are:— Freehold property, 34 Begg street, St. Kilda, to the Deacon’s Court of the Musselburgh Presbyterian Church, for church purposes. £IOOO to Deacon’s Court, Musselburgh Prebyterian Church, for building fund £IOOO to Presbyterian Social Service Association, for social work. £IOOO to Dunedin Young Men’s Christian Association. £IOOO to Centennial Memorial Fund of the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.

Bequests were also made of a collection of shells to the Dunedin Training College and “such books as the senate may require ’’ to the University of Otago. Estate Mrs E. Fisher

The following bequests were made in the will of Elizabeth Fisher, widow, late of Waikouaiti:— £2OO to the New Zealand Red Cross Society, Dunedin, for general purposes. £2OO to the Dunedin RSA, for “assistance of returned members of the Air Force, Navy, Naval Reserve and Meroantile Marine who have served outside New Zealand.” £2OO to Methodist Central Mission, for rest home, Company’s Bay.