£6000 TO CHARITIES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23970, 10 June 1943, Page 2

£6OOO TO CHARITIES

* CHRISTCHURCH RESIDENT’S WILL The Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland, has received a legacy of £2OOO, and the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association, Christchurch, a legacy of £IOOO under the will of the late Miss Mary Jane Fry, of Cashmere. Altogether the sum of £6OOO has been left to charities and other deserving institutions. Besides the Jubilee Institute and the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association, others to benefit under the provisions of the will are St. Augustine’s Anglican Church, Cashmere, £500; St. Anne’s Home for Girls, £500; . St. Saviour’s Guild Society, £500; Salvation Army (for use of the Christchurch,branch), £500; St. Jbhn Ambulance Association, £400; Melanesian. Mission,/ £200; Maori Mission, £200; and the 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, £2OO. Miss Fry, who died on May 19. interested herself in all organisations of a charitable nature. She is a descendant of the well-known Cholmondeley family of Port Levy, who were among the earliest settlers in Canterbury. * Miss Phyllis Talbot, who was matron of a hospital at Fouabu. Solomon Islands, and who was on furlough in New Zealand when the Japanese entered the war, is now being allowed to return to her post at the hospital. At the missionary market held at the Caledonian Hall yesterday afternoon, Archbishop West-Watson said that all interested in missionary work would wish Miss Talbot godspeed and would hope for the early re-establishment of work that had been much curtailed in the Solomon Islands. Miss Talbot received her professional training at the Christchurch Public Hospital. A recent letter received in Christchurch from Miss Chrissie Weston, formerly of Christchurch, and now a school teacher in Fiji, describes her meeting with many New Zealand troops stationed in the Islands. “On Easter Saturday,” she writes, “we had 10 for dinner and for the evening; for lunch on Easter Sunday we ’ ad 11, for tea 13, and after church 19 came for a sing-song and supper. I often wish our house were more elastic and our purses too, so that we could have more of them in at times for a quiet rest for there are many who have not been in a home since they left New Zealand."