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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.
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