A grant of $10,000 NZ was obtained from the Turanga Trust in Napier and the project took two years to complete. When in 1870 Catherine Heathcote provided Samuel £700 raised by her as a reward to build Te Aute College he said: “I’ll take it (on loan) and I’ll give a reasonable charge of interest on it; however there’s one other important factor to be taken in hand. That (is) the Hukarere School for the ladies.” By 1872 he had paid again the entire of this £700 and with Mrs Heathcote’s consent the money was used to construct Hukarere School on a site given by Bishop Williams not removed from his personal Napier dwelling. In a letter to his mother dated 27th August 1830, Henry Williams recounts; ‘We have been some time earlier than we learned the particulars of the organ. Martin Renshaw, in his treatise on the organs related to John Marsh, refers to a barrel organ constructed by Alexander Buckingham in 1829 for ‘Mr Heathcote of latest Zealand’, which was directed to the Rev’d Henry Williams.
There will be little doubt that Catherine would have unhesitatingly borne any extra prices over the £50 bequeathed by John Marsh to Henry and William, out of her own bequest. When the household moved to Southwell, the Minster was the only church there and its services had been wholly Choral. A extra elaborate publication was produced in 1996 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the church’s basis however in the Introduction Catherine nonetheless solely gets one line, being described as ‘a lady of independent means.’ She gets a barely extra generous point out later in the booklet but, as her letters to her family in New Zealand document, she was one of many prime movers in its creation. A centenary booklet produced in 1946 provides biographical notes of the primary 4 vicars but the only mention of Catherine Heathcote is the reference in the directory to her part in the fund elevating. 9 December 1828 and there is no such thing as a entry for 1829 till sixth July when he gives particulars of a barrel organ he had made for a Mr.Heathcote of new Zealand. We have now positioned it at the top of the chapel, which to us Europeans offers a strong indication of the place we are in.’ Marianne Williams, writing shortly afterwards, on seventh September, tells how she discovered from a letter written to Henry by his cousin Edward Garrard Marsh that ‘the organ, the arrival of which had given such common satisfaction, was, not, as supposed, the subscription one, however from their uncle to Henry and William.
A letter she wrote to her sister-in-law, Jane Williams, in New Zealand, dated 4th December 1845 properly illustrates her position within the fund-raising actions; ‘But God has given us dear & glorious buddies within the neighbourhood who have greater than provided the need of them in the town. As an earnest and intelligent supporter of the missions trigger, she has given a whole lot through a course of years; to not this cause alone was she devoted, the Bible Society and different kindred institutions coming in for a large share of her help. He lived at Kirklington & will in fact be the heir of that property. There may be another window in Holy Trinity to the memory of Emma and Sarah Gaster and when Emma died, on 12th August 1912, aged 73, she is described within the burial register as of Westgate, so it may be supposed, perhaps, that Sarah and Emma ran the college jointly after which lived together in retirement.
Greco, Patti (May 29, 2014). “‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author John Green Has a ‘Badass Feminist Mom'”. In January 2013, state senator Jake Corman and state treasurer Rob McCord sued the NCAA, looking for to overturn the Penn State sanctions on the premise that Freeh had been actively collaborating with the organization and that due process had not been adopted. The purpose of the assembly was to consider the state of our funds &c when these pricey associates promised to offer us £150 in addition to their previous donations making in all upwards of £300 which they’ve given moreover all they’ve obtained. As Edward Heathcote was the organist at Southwell Minster at the moment, and had already supervised work by Buckingham, in 1821 and 1825, on the organ initially installed there, it appears possible that he was given the task of supervising the order for the organ destined for Paihia, and that Catherine then took over the accountability of making certain that it reached its supposed vacation spot. In 1867 the organ passed into the possession of Henry’s eldest son, Edward Marsh Williams, and in 1898 it was given to Edward’s son, the Reverend Alfred O. Williams, who was at that time visiting the Bay of Islands with Samuel H Drew, the founding father of the Wanganui Museum.