MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 August 1919, Page 5

MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.

£24,500 TO PI-lILANTHROPIC OBJECTS. WESTPORT, Aug. 8. Under the will of the late Mr Jzmieg Powell, retirecl merchant, of VVestport, bequests totalling £24,500 are made, as folloWs: Presbyterian Orphanage, Christchurch, £IOOO. St_ Andl'ew’s Orphanage Board (for Old inens’ home), £3500. Sailorfs Rest, Westport, £IOOO. Public Libi-ax-y, VVestport, £IOOO. Prisoners’ Aid and Protection Society, Dunedin, £3OOO. ’ Jubilee Institute for tfia Blind, Aucl<]ancl, £3OOO. Ranfurly Veterans’ Home. Onellunga ‘£3ooo. "Salvation Army in New Zenlziiul, £4OOO. Dr Barnai-do’s Homes, England, £3OOO. Total, £24,500.

After all private logaciés have bben disposed of the rc.<sidue of the estate, —undcrstood to amount of a very considerable sum——_will be divided amongst Auckland, Welling‘ron, North Canterbury and Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards_