TRAVIS BEQUEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 9

TRAVIS BEQUEST.

FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH. CONSUMPTION AND CANCER. INCOME FROM £57,100 AVAILABLE. .(By. Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The amount of the estate left by Mr. William Henry Travis for research work in New Zealand into consumption and cancer is £57,100. The income from this will be available for research. The trustees of the estate are Mr. Pearce and Mr. O. B. Bergh, both of Christchurch. They have decided to ask Dr. G. J. Blackmore, the retiring director of the North Canterbury Hospital Board's tuberculosis institutions, Dr. P. C. Fenwick, of the radium department of the Christchurch Hospital, and Dr. A. B. Pearson, pathologist at the Christchurch Hospital, to confer with them in the question of how the income can best be used. "The testator," said Mr. -Pearce, "stated that it was not his desire that the trustees should confine the application of the income to giving scholarships only, but that the funds should rather be applied in assisting in such investigations some advanced students or medical practitioner, who should not of necessity be prevented from having a private practice. The will states that any income not expended in any one year should be .accumulated and used in any subsequent year." Stamp duties amounting to £14,32!) have been paid out of the estate. The Government refused to remit this amount, on the ground that it was probable Mr. Travis realised the death duties would have to be paid, and to remit them would amount to altering his will.