Charitable Bequests: Auckland Solicitor’s Will

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 9, 1 March 1923, Page 35

Charitable Bequests: Auckland Solicitor’s Will

Valuable bequests to the Catholic diocese of Auckland are revealed in the will of Charles Frederick Reid, solicitor, of TV hakatane, but latterly of 5 Mac Murray Road, Auckland, who died m December last. The estate has been valued at £oo,ooo. Under the original will, mad© in 1916, the net income from the testator’s residuary estate is to be paid to his widow, subject to the following legacies: -£7OO Pinm 1 ! H ® n . ry ? f Iymi > formerly of Opotiki, now of London; £IOOO to John Hunter Pile, of Opotiki; and £l5O each to Burney Hamilton Somervall, of Opotiki, and Leonard Sisam, settler, Whakatane. Upon the death of the widow the trustees arc directed to pay and transfer to the Catholic Bishop o Auckland the whole of the residuary estate, to be employed by him in and- for such charitable (including therein religious and administrational) purposes in the diocese as m his sole uncontrolled and absolute discretion lie thinks proper and expedient. By codicil, dated February, 1920, the testator made a number of other personal bequests, including £2OOO to his sister Clare and £2OO to the Very Rev. Dean Cahill, of Parnell. A sum of £IOOO was also bequeathed to the Superioress of the Home of the Lift c Sisters of the Poor, at. Auckland, for the purposes of the institution. In a codicil dated October, 1916 the testator gave £IOOO to his sister Edith and £IOOO each to his brothers, Francis Walter Reid and Alfred Austin Reid The sum of £oooo was also willed to the Catholic Bishop to be used for orphan children in any orphanage or institntmn under Ins care or supervision. A further sum of £ooo was bequeathed to the Bishop for the erection in non-combustible material of a church at Remuera available foi the hole of the Catholic community of that place, such church to cost not less than £12,000. Payment of legacies under the 1916 codicil are payable during the widow’s life only with her written consent.