ARCHDEACON’S BEQUEST

Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 8

ARCHDEACON’S BEQUEST

ADDITION TO DIOCESAN SCHOOL'S RESOURCES [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 26. A very large contingent bequest consisting of the whole of the testator s New Zealand estate, valued conservatively at over £22,000, has been made to the Auckland Diocesan Girls’ ‘High School by Ven. R. H. Cole, formerly archdeacon of Taranaki, who died m Auckland in September, 1934. The bequest is subject to a life interest of the archdeacon’s daughters and to another contingency, the possibilities in regard to which cannot b© ascertained for some considerable time. If this contingency does not materialise the school will ultimately receive a very valuable addition to its resources. Archdeacon Cole made no stipulations as to the use that may be made of the benuest, but expressed the wish that the School Council should apply a sum annually, whenever practicable, towards i the maintenance and education or tne daughters of poor clergy actively en- ' gaged in the dioceses of Auckland and th ArSa a co°n Cole had completed 50 rears in the Anglican Ministry at the time of bis death. From 1903 until ,1912. when he retired,.on*' health, he was archdeacon of Paranam.