RESCUE WORK IN AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 10 February 1905, Page 2

RESCUE WORK IN AUCKLAND.

£ 1500 OF TRUST MONEY. AWARDED TO THE DOOR OF HOPE. Mr Justice Edwards this morning gave judgment in a trust money case Involving over £ 1500. The case was one in which the trustees of this money (the outcome of a fund started many years ago by Lady Martin for establishing a resAie home at Auckland) applied to the' Court for leave to hand the money over to the Door of Hope to be used as intended by the 'founder. Mr Clayton was counsel for the applicants, and Mr Southey Baker for the Door of Hope. The application was opposed by Mr MeVeagh. fifr the Anglicans, and Mr Buddie, for the Salvation Army, these parties proposing an equal division of the money between the homes of the three sects. One of the conditions of the fund was that it should be administered on undenominational lines. His Honor found that tie Door of Hope's Home was entirely unsectarian. and managed by a committee elected by the subscribers; the Salvation Army was under the control of General Booth, wbo .nominated advisers but resided outside of the Court's jurisdiction; and the StMary's Women's Home (Anglican) was entirely under Church of England management, and the inmates Were required to attend Anglican services. The lines followed by the Door of Hope therefore approximated more closely. than those of the other homes wHiae objects intended by the founder, and he therefore ordered that the fund be paid over to the Door of Hope for investment, the income to be paid to them so long as they remained unsectarian, and the inmates were not required to attend any particular form of service.