Municipal and Official Handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand/Appendix I

I.

LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS OF THE CITY.

1. Sir George Grey, who presented to the City in August, 1882, his collection of books, works of art, and curios.

2. Edward Costley, who died on April 18th, 1883, bequeathed the sum of £84,700 in equal shares fo the following institutions:—Institute and Museum, Public Library, Hospital, Orphan Home, Home for the Aged Poor, Sailors' Home, and Boys' Institute.

3. James Tannock Mackelvie, who died 4th June, 1885, bequeathed his valuable art collection and a sum of money, in trust, to establish and maintain a Museum of Fine Art. He also presented a collection of art books to the Public Library.

4. Dr. J. E. Elam, who bequeathed a sum of £6,500 to establish a School of Art.

5. James Dilworth, who died om 23rd December, 1894, left estate valued at £100,000, to be applied to the maintenance and education of orphans or of children of persons of good character in straitened circumstances.

6. William Leys, who died 5th October, 1899, founded and endowed the Leys Institute as a Free Public Library and Institute. The building was erected and furnished with funds derived, in equal parts, from the endowment and a donation by Mr. Thomson W. Leys, who also presented the Institute with a library, and subsequently erected a new building for the Lending Department. The gifts of Mr. T. W. Leys. LL.D., to the Institute represent over £8,000.

7. Mrs. Edmund A. Mackechnie, who died on November 7th, 1902, bequeathed, by direction of her deceased husband, a sum of £5,000, of which £2,500 was to be used in the erection of a gallery for the Society of Arts, £2,000 for the endowment of a library for the Auckland Institute and Museum, and £500 for the purchase of cases of animals for the latter.

8. William Arrowsmith, who died in 1902, bequeathed about £23,000, to be divided, in equal parts, between the Orphan Home and Mrs. Cowie's Women's Home.

9. William Mason, who died on September 27th, 1905, bequeathed a sum of £10,000 to the Institute for the Blind, £1,000 to the Leys Institute, and smaller sums to other local organisations.

10. Auckland Savings Bank contributed, in 1905, £10,000 towards the building fund of the Technical College, and recently £25,000 to War Memorial Museum.

11. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith, who presented to the Hospital Board, in March, 1907, a property situated in Ellerslie, containing over three acres and a two-storey dwelling, for the purpose of founding a Convalescent Home for women and children.

12. Ellen Knox, who died on October 19th, 1908, bequeathed £70,000 to charities, including £20,000 for the erection of a building for the treatment of poor people suffering from incurable diseases.

13. John Mitchell McLachlan, who died in 1911, bequeathed Cornwallis Park (1927 acres) to the city.

14. Mr. Henry Brett, ex-Mayor, presented the Pipe Organ installed in the Town Hall. He has for many years been a patron of music, and has presented organs to the Blind Institute., etc.

15. Hon. A. M. Myers, an ex-Mayor of the City, presented, in 1911, the clock which was erected in the tower of the Town Hall. In 1915 he donated Myers Park (6 acres), and erected at his own cost a Kindergarten Which bears his name.

16. Sir John Logan Campbell, who died on June 22nd, 1912, made several presentations, including Cornwall Park (230 acres), and the Kindergarten, the Creche, and Nursery which bear his name. In his will he bequeathed £76,000 to public institutions.

17. Mr. Henry Shaw, an ex-City Councillor, presented to the Public Library, in 1912, a valuable collection of books and manuscripts, to the Art Gallery a number of pictures, and to the Auckland Museum a collection of Japanese art objects.

18. Mr. H. E. Partridge presented to the Art Gallery, in 1915, the Lindauer Collection of Maori paintings.