PROFESSOR BROWN'S WILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 19, 23 January 1935, Page 8

PROFESSOR BROWN'S WILL

CANTERBURY COLLEGE BENEFITS STUDY OF THE PACIFIC I Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 22. The establishment of a school of Pa'cifi.c Ocean studies where peoples and racial movements of the Pacific may bo observed and studied, and where New Zealanders may be fitted for administration of Pacific territories, is provided for in the will of Professor Macmillan Brown. The school will be established at Canterbury College and most of the residue of the estate, which will be sworn at under £70,000, will revert to Canterbury College. The will appoints the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Coy ,-of New Zealand, Ltd., a* executor anil trustee, and also names Messrs W. D. Campbell, Timaru. barrister, and H. F. von Haast, Wellington, barrister, as associate trustees, and Miss Macmillan Brown is appointed literary trustee.

After providing for the members of his family by way of legacies, annuities and specific gifts, Professor Macmillan Brown makes gifts to Canterbury College, for the museum of the School of Pacific Ocean studies, all his Pacific Ocean curios and ethnological specimens. He also leaves to the college his library, stipulating that it must be kept intact and he known ss the Macmillan Bfown Library. To house it an expenditure of £2500 i? authorised, and expenditure from an income of £3OO is to keep the library up-to-date.

One-third of the income from the residue is earmarked for publication of books or manuscripts of Professor Macmillan Brown. This work is in the hands of his literary trustee.