SCHOOL OF PACIFIC OCEAN STUDIES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 8

SCHOOL OF PACIFIC OCEAN STUDIES

Canterbury College Bequest PROFESSOR MACMILLAN BROWN’S WILL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, January 22. Tlie establishment of a School of Pacific Ocean Studies, where peoples and racial movements of the Pacific may be observed and studied, and where New Zealanders may be fitted for the administration of Pacific territories, is provided for in the will of Professor Macmillan Brown. The school will be established at Canterbury College. Most of the residue of the estate, which will be sworn at under £70,000, will revert to Canterbury College. The will appoints the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., as executor and trustee, and also names Messrs. W. D. Campbell, Timaru, barrister, and 11. F. von Ilaast, Wellington, barrister, as associate trustees, and Miss V. Macmillan Brown is appointed literary trustee. After providing for members of his family by way of legacies, annuities and specific gifts, Professor Macmillan Brown makes gifts to Canterbury College for the museum of the School of Pacific Ocean Studies all his Pacific Ocean curios and ethnological specimens. He also leaves to the college his library, stipulating that it be kept intact find be known as the Macmillan Brown Library. To house it an expenditure of £2500 is authorised and expenditure from the income of £3OO to keep the library up to date. Onethird of the income from the residue is ear-marked for publication of tlie books or manuscripts of Professor Macmillan Brown, this work being in the hands of his literary trustee.