BOYSMNSTITUTE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 2

BOYSMNSTITUTE

•■, . A BEQUEST OP J33000.' Tlio president of tho Wellington Boys' Institute and S. A. Rhodes Homo for 'Boys (Mr. G. A. Troup) received the following letter from tho Assistant .P-üblio "Trustee (Mr. J, A. Macdonald) yesterday;—. ■ , "Dear Sir,—Eβ James Mackay, deceased.—Tho Public Trusteo is executor of tho will of the above-named,' who - formerly resided in Wellington, but who died at Bridge-of-AUnn, Scotland, on December 22, 1917. Under the will the residue of tho estate, af,ter payment of debts, financial land . testamentary ex- , ponstfs and- pecuniary legacies, is divisible into two equal shares, ono such share, amounting to, say, ,£16,000 being distributable amongst such charitable . and bcnovolent institutions in New Zealand as the Public Trustee, after con- ; ferring with tho Hon. Sir Francis Dillon > 8011, K.C.M.Q. I ,nnd Mr. Ernest D. Bell, ; barri3ter-at-la\y, may think 'proper, tho : other part beins paid to the Lord Pro- , vost and Magistrates of tho city of Glas- . gow for similar purposes. The Public-' Trust Office Board has conferred with theso gentlemen named, and has decided ; that tho power Riven to tho Publio * Trustee under tho will shall lie exercised in. favour of certain institutions, tho Wellington Boys' Institute and S. ■ A. Rhodes Homo for Boys participatingto tho extent of one-eighth of tho amount so distributable. I miticipato the amount available from this source will approximate ,£2OOO. Owing, however,(o tho fact that a, substantial portion of (ho deceased's cstaio is invested in tho ; United Kingdom it may bo eoinc little" lime before n payment - can be made to you. Meanwhile, I shall bo glad to hear from you os lo how and whom the i amount montioucd should bo payable." i Needless to say tho president and committeo of the institute are delighted that they should receivo such a handsome legacy; and aro jfrateful that tho institute should havo Ix-en remembered in tins . way \>y the Publio Trustee, the I lion. Sir Francis Dillon Bell, and Mr. . Ernest 8011. It is understood that the committee is contemplating a forward , inovp-to make tho institute even more serviceable than is possible at tho present timo. _________ v i