GENEROUS BEQUESTS TO ORPHAN HOMES
AUCKLANDER’S WILL [ Per Press Absociatioa. » AUCKLAND, July 27. Under the will of the late Thomas Kirkup of Auckland, who died while visiting England last year, bequests of £5OO each are made to the Anglican Orphans’ Home at Papatoctoe, the Salvation Army Home at Auckland and Doctor Barnardo’s homes. There are contingent legacies providing, in the event of certain happenings, for payment to these institutions of a further sum of £5OO each. Mr Kirkup, who was born at Newcastle on Tyne in 1855, w r as left an orphan at the age of six, and worked as a pit boy in a coalmine, but ran away, eventually coming to New Zealand and entering into partnership in a nianufacturing concern.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 8
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123GENEROUS BEQUESTS TO ORPHAN HOMES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 8
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