CHARITABLE BEQUESTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 291, 4 September 1919, Page 4

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS

£16,000 TO BE DISBUIISED. In yesterday's Dominion appeared' the announcement of a bequest.from the ) ate Mr.'James Mackay, formerly ot ton, of the. half of his residuary estato estimated to produce about lo clmritablo institutions in Ivew By 'the will the institutions to be favcured were left to the Public'lutein (conference or cis Dillon Bell and Mr. Ernest D. Bell (solicitors for the deceased). Only Mo iw institute--was mentioned in jesterday's reference. The full list of tho institutions to benelit are as follow: £ e. d. Wellington Boys' Institute and G. H. Rhodes Home for Boys, an eighth or about : " District Nursing Guild of ■ St. Johji Ambulance As- , 6ocia,tion, an eighth or _ # about " ,vu Jubilee Institute , for', tho lllind,, Auckland, an 3 eighth or about -WU. « Wellington Conya escent Home, an eighth or 0 , about New Zealand purses lund, » Mc„ one-half or about ... S.OOfl v v Approximate total .£16,000 0 0 It is scarcely necessary to> "enkao upon the constitution and objects of tlw four Jiistitutionb auo RmV Institute is a hostel ioi. I )0 J 6 Um oity wiiero boys without means may be made worthy citizens by means of lwphyskal recic^ion. sporU. demonstration addi esses* . nHhiM also contains tho only cppwi £&»%«*££ tausht to swim there. .. . The District Nursing Guild of the St John Ambulance Association is aji organisation to provide vis. nig nurses f6f the poor of the community. _ Tho Con•alosceiit Homo (for female*?) is tho horn# nn the high levels at Oriental Bay, whicu is managed by trustees elected each ycaf iy"buto« to ite upkeep. The homt receives convalescents from tho Gcnoiaj Uosnilal only -as a riiio, hut during tno epidemio it received convalescent female patients from tho temporary hospitals. Pea-haps the organisation least known in Wellington—although a Dominion concern—is the. Now Zealand 'Nurses Fund, He. This is a new fund set u|> for tho relief of nurses distressed uj (sickness, accident, old age, or other mi--fortune. The fund is open to nil SUM registered nurses, etc., also to all nity muses who aro members of the JW Zealand Trained Nurses' Association. Of this fund Dr. Lindo Person, of Dunedin, is president, and bir GpoiM len .wick, of Dunedin, and Dr. AVof Wellington, aro vice-presidents. committee includes Mr. A. E. Pearca a id Miss Mary M'Lean, of Wellington; W. C. W. M'Dowell, and Mr. 01" f Nicholson, of Auckland; Mrs. A. C. San isten and Dr. L. S. Manning of ■ torburyj Dr. James-Young, ot gill; and Miss Thomson, »-Rray Begg, C. M. Maegregor, U V>• Rawait and C. K. Smith, of Otago. ,