VALUABLE BEQUESTS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1930, Page 2

VALUABLE BEQUESTS

BAPTIST CHURCH BENEFIT. NAPIER. October 24. Under the will of the late Airs Amelia Mary Randall. of Taradale, who died hist, we k, a sum oV £22,500 is left to charitable objects, in addition. the residue of the estate, after empl.yecs and personal L iei.ds. will in-h-it upon trust l< r the establishment of a Baptist college in New Zealand for the general education cf hoys and gills, or hoys or girls. The latter sum will he a substantial one. but the exact amount is not known at present. Most of the bequests are lor vnrinis

organisations in connection with the Baptist- Church of New Zealand, the largest being £14,500 to the Baptist Union for .special trusts. Of this total £2500 will go to the New Zealand Baptist annuity fund, £IOOO to the Baptist Children’s Home, Manurewa, £looo' to the Baptist Church manse fund. £K)fO to the Baptist Union ministers’ hook fund, £soo' to the Baptist Missionary Society, and £SOOO for the establishment o; a Randall students’ fund to be used ifi the maintenance and education of students for the ministry-in the Baptist Church of New Zealand or dim Baptist Missionary Society.

A furl her a mount cf £4500 is bequeathed In the Baptist Union for the erection of a new church in Napier, a site for which already had been given by the testator. The Baptist Union will also receive £SOOO, the income from which will be utilised in the maintenance of the Baptist Theological College at Romucra. Auckland,

The rosjflno of the o.stute will be plac’d on trust for the establishment of a Bapiist College, net theological, bat for education on general lines of boys and girls, or boys or girls. Otlmr public bequests are:—Hawke’s Bnv Children’s Home £103; Napier Y.M.C.A. £500; Bethany Home, Napier. £,so”'; Fa Ration Army, Napier, £250; Blanket Society, Napier. £150; New Zealand Branch of British and Foreign Bible Society £IOO.