£12,000 TO RELIGION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 8

£12,000 TO RELIGION

EFFECT OF A DUNEDIN WILL CHURCH OF CHRIST TO BENEFIT. SEVERAL PRIVATE BEQUESTS. [Per Press Association ) DUNEDIN, Sept 2. Under the will of Mrs. Caroline Rankin Wilson, daughter of the late. Captain Sundstrum, the Church of Christ. Dunedin, will, at the termination of certain Life interests, receive a majority of the estate, which has been sworn for probate purposes at under £20,000. It is estimated that after the payment of several private bequests, the residue, of approximately £12,000, will be available for religious purposes set out in the will. Private bequests concern people in New Zealand, Great Britain and the United States. Specific directions in regard to the residue after the expiry of the life interests are as follows: £lOO to the Church of Christ,. Dunedin, for social service work; £lOO to the Church of Christ, Dunedin, to purchase a pipe organ or towards the reduction of debt thereon, or on the maintenance or required; £lOO to the Council of Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand Aged Preachers’ Provident Fund; £lOO to the trustees of the Church of Christ Bible College, Glenleith, Woodhaugh, Dunedin, and the residue to the Church 'of Christ, Dunedin, to be applied in the terms and direction already stated jin respect to the purchase and maintenance of a pipe organ.