ORPHANAGES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 261, 10 December 1909, Page 2

ORPHANAGES

BENEFACTIONS OF THE LATE MRS. WHITE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Niglit. The will of the late Mrs. Eliza .lite, of which probate was granted, uiaxes bequests as previously to., ,/aphed. The residuary trust estate, as defined by the will, is to be used for the purpose of founding aud maintaining two orphanages in Christchurch, one for the reception of destitute females, and the other 1 for the reception of destitute male r,r----1 phan children. The female orphanage is * to be established first, and the male cii phanage only when the trust estate ' shall be more tEan sufficient for one. i Each orphanage is to be placed under ■ the immediate management of some rei cognised order in the Roman Catholic I Church, approved of for the purpose by > the Koman Catholic Bishop of Christs church, but subject to the control of trustees, and the institution is to be called "St. Joseph's Orphanage." Each r orphanage is to be primarily for the reception and education of children in the Catholic religion, but no child of any ] other religious denomination is for that 1 reason alone to be refused admission, but every such child must conform to the rules of tile institution so far as may be possible for a non-Catholic to '• conform thereto. i