TARANAKI WILL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1940, Page 6

TARANAKI WILL

PUBLIC AND CHARITABLE BEQUESTS PUBLIC AND CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. BY FORMER MAYORESS OF HAWERA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAWERA, This Day. Bequests totalling over £9OOO to public and semi-public bodies and to humanitarian and religious institutions are made in the will of Mrs Marion Campbell, former Mayoress of Hawera, and widow of Mr J. E. Campbell. The estate is sworn at £22,000. The beneficiaries include: Borough of Hawera, £2OOO for memorial statuary, a replica of the Wonderland group in the Oamaru Gardens, to her husband; Hawera Technical High School, £l5OO for memorial scholarships; Blind Institute, £750; Makogai Leper Station, £500; Taranaki centre of the Cancer Society, £1000; Hawera branch of the Crippled Children Society, £500; Roman Catholic Church, £2455, including Upper’ Hutt Orphanage, £5OO, and Mother Mary Aubert Home, Island Bay, £500; Hawera Branch of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, £350; Hawera Church, extinction of debt, £250; Hawera Convent School, £350; Convent of Mercy, Hill Street, Wellington. £250; Maori Mission, £250; Eltham Salvation Army Boys’ Home. £100; Returned Soldiers’ Club, Hawera, £lOO. The residue of the estate is to be shared equally by the Blind Institute, the Mother Mary Aubert Home, and the N.Z.R.S.A. benefit fund for sick, wounded and distressed soldiers in this and the last war.