CHARITABLE GIFTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 922, 15 March 1930, Page 6

CHARITABLE GIFTS

MR. A. J. WALTERS’S BEQUESTS

RETIRED TARANAKI FARMER

Legacies of £SOO each have been left by the late Mr. Arthur Job Walters, who died at his home, Mountain Road, Mount Albert, on March 1, to 10 Auckland charitable organisations. The institutions which will benefit are: Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage: Boys’ Home, Mount Smart Road; Methodist Orphanage, Mount Albert: Children’s Home, Devonport; Auckland City Mission: Eventide Home. Mount Eden; Auckland branch of S.P.C.A. Dr. Barnado’s Homes, the Auckland branch of the Salvation Army and the Jubilee Institute for the. Blind are to divide equally among them the residue of the estate.

The testator, who was 70 years of age at the time of his death, was a son of well-known Canterbury settlers. In his youth Mr. Walters was engaged in the building trade in Taranaki, and Inter took up farming in that province Eleven years ago he disposed of his property and came to Auckland to live. He was a strong adherent of the Mount Albert Presbyterian Church and a keen bowler. He is survived by his widow. The Public Trustee has been appointed trustee and executor of the estate and a brother. Mr. F. W. Walters, of Waitoa. as advisory tru.=;tee.