HOSPITAL BEQUEST

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 199, 8 September 1937, Page 5

HOSPITAL BEQUEST

-Press Association.)

£10,000 For New Zealand Inetittttions

QUESTION 0F DISP0SITI0N

(By Teleeraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. Every pubiie hospital in New Zealaq^ is financially coneerned in a case placed before the Supremo Cburt tofiay, by way of an originating summons, to determine the disposition of a substantial bequest made m 1905 by an linglishman who spent some time in New Zealand as a teacher of the Maoris. He was FredCrick Allen Green, bf Clapham, Surrey, who was in New Zealand between 1875 and 1897. Wlieii he returned to England in i880, he made a will containing bequests to the fbur public h'ospitals in the four chief cilieS Of the Dominion, but in 1905, in London, he exeeuted a codicil loaving all the Australasian portion of his estate, upon the deaths of liis wife, brother and sistor, to be divided among the whole of the public hospitals of the Dominion, pro rata per bed. The testator died in 1916 and his Wife in I93i. Oertain aspects of the will have already been before the Cburt in England, aiid the Piibii'' Trustee iri New Zealand was appointed to act as special trustee fbr the fund of abeut £lo,0oo now availabie i'or distribution to thb hospitals of thb Dominion. Oil behalf of the Public Trustee, eounsel to-day sought ffom the Supreme Coiirt the deliilitions bf pubiie hospitals aiid beds, iavbived With Which was the question Wtiothef tlie numbers bf hospitals and beds were to be caleulated at the time oi' the death of the testator, or at tlie lime bf his vvife's death, Legal argument ifi pi'otceding.