GIFTS TO CHARITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 82, 6 April 1929, Page 6

GIFTS TO CHARITY

THE HUNTER-SHAW ESTATE PATEA MAN’S BENEVOLENCE The following is a list of grants made to date to charitable institutions by the executor and trustee, Mr E. F. War u, pursuant to the will of the late Mr Hunter Shaw, of Whenuakura, Patea:— £ Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland 200 N.Z. Nurses Memorial Fund, Dunedin 500 Plunket Society Endowment Fund, Auckland 300 Plunket Society, Auckland ...... 200 Plunket Society, Wellington 300 Plunket Society, Christchurch 250 Plunket Society, Dunedin ...... 250 Plunket Society, Invercargill 150 Plunket Society, Palmerston N 150 Plunket Society, Wanganui 150 Plunket Society, New Plymouth . 150 Plunket Society, Patea 700 Nursing Guild of St. John, Wellington -00 St. John Ambulance, Wellington .150 St. John Ambulance, Auckland 300 St. John Ambulance, Christchurch .150 St. John Ambulance, Dunedin 150 St. John Ambulance, Invercargill 100 Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, Wellington 100 Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, Christchurch 100 Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society Auckland 100 Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society Dunedin 160 Public Hospital, Auckland 200 Public Hospital, Patea «... 2300 Patea Domain Board, Patea 1000 St. Joseph \ Orphanage, Takapuna Auckland 166 Door of Hope Rescue Home, Auckland 100 St. Mary ’s Home, Otahuhu . .. 150 Orphan (Children’s Home, Auckland -00 Little Sisters of the Poor, Auckland - 100 Little Sisters of the Poor, Dunedin 100 Home of Compassion, Wellington 200 Home for Incurables, Wellington 200 Home for Destitue and Motherless Children, Wellington 150 Levin Al emorial Home, Wellington 150 Home for Destitue and Orphan Boys, Wellington 100 S.A. Rhodes’ Home for Boys, Wellington 100 Sisters of Nazareth, Christchurch 100 Star of the Sea Orphanage, Howick JOO Home for Orphans, Huntervillc 150 St. Vincent de Paul Society, Auckland 150 St. Vincent de Paul Society, Wellington 150 St. Vincent de Paul Society, Christchurch 150 St. Vincent do Paul, Society, Dunedin ...... «>■••• ....m •••••• •••••• lot) Total 10,850 The deceased gentleman, whose family came to New Zealand from North Ireland in the ’fifties and resided at Wellington for many years, lived in the Patea district since 1874 until his death at Patea on October 13, 1927. He was unmarried and was the last of his family, all his brothers ami sisters having predeceased him without descendants. His will, after some small bequests, directed his executor and trustee. Mr Warren, to divide the residue of his estate upon such charitable trusts as his trustee should select. Further directio. s wore given, chiefly that no institution should benefit whose primary object was the advancement of education or the teaching of religion.