GENEROUS BEQUESTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 128, 30 April 1940, Page 6

GENEROUS BEQUESTS.

LATE AIR A. S. PATERSON. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 29. The following bequests of a public character are made under the will of Mr A. Stronach Paterson, whose death occurred last week: University of Otago. £5000; St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Dunedin, £500; Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society, £1000; National Council of the Y.M.C.A. (to be applied for particular work of that council), £1000; Dunedin Amenities and Town Planning Society. £SCO; Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, free of duty as an endowment for augmenting by way of the income therefrom inadequate salaries of ministers in the said church, £lO 000. Presbyterian Church, the following legacies in each case for tlie purpose of the endowment for and so that the income only shall lie applied in aid of the objects mentioned in connection with such legacy: For beneficiary fund (aged and infirm ministers’ fund and widows’ and orphans’ fund) in connection with tho church, £ls 000; for Knox College. Dunedin. £10.000; for A. S. Paterson- Library in connection with Knox College, £3000; for the Presbyterian Women’s Training Institute, Dunedin. £3000; lor St. Alargaret’s College, Dunedin, £GOO9; for the library in connection with St. Alargaret’s College, £1500; for the women’s beneficiary fund in connection with the church for the Ixmcfitof single women missionaries in the foreign field, £5)00. Subject to the pavnient of private legacies and annuities. the residue of the estate is given to tlie Presbyterian Church.