PUBLIC BEQUESTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1526, 23 August 1912, Page 4

PUBLIC BEQUESTS.

INSTITUTE FOR DBSTITUTQ CHILDREN. LEQACY FOR ART. The Public Trustee (executor) stat« that tho late Mr. Eugene Joseph O'Connor, of Nelson, gentleman, deceased, formerly for many years a member of the House of Uepresentatives, )Jj' his will, of which, the Public Trustee is exccutor, After a number of legacies of small sums to his nephews and nicces, and an annuity to his sister, gives tho residue of his estato to three trustees, the lionian Catholic Archbishop of Wellington, tho Mayor of Wcstport, and the member of Parliament for tho district in which Wcstport is situated, upon trust to establish an institute at Wcstport, on his freehold property at Nino Mile Road, tor roaring 'iml training destituto children of both so-i.'S and all denominations, and to tako oliargo of old people, Testator directed that such institutions should bo under tho cliarg6 of flio Little Sisters of tho Pool', or other Roman Catholic religious Order, approved ».y tho Roman Catholic Archbishop of ucllmgton, subject to 110 religious exclusiveness, aiid open to all danominations. , r ! ) : i ' c ' l| ary estato in tho hands of the 1 üblic Trustee for such purposes is About ,£IB,OOO. Mr. Henry Sarjeant, late of Wanganui, | c, ?t'emnii, by l\is last will appoints the I üblic Trustee his executor and trustee. He directs his wife to have a life interest m tho whole estate, which is worth about jC35,000. After her death a number of legacies aro to be paid, l including £300 to the "\\ anganui Astronomical Society, .£250 to tho \Y anganui Orchestral Sooioty, and <£'250 to tho Wungauui Museum, nnil the residue to tho Wanganui Borough Council to establish and maintain in the Wanganui Borough a Tine Arts Gallery, to be for tho reception, purchase, and acquisition of works of art for tho beuefit Of the public, and tho deceased expressed a desire that such works of art bo purchased only on account of their intrinsic value as works of art, and that tho gallery bo managed by the Wanganui BorOugh Council, to whom tho Public Trustee is to account for the income.