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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.
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