CLOCK TOWER DONOR

Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 10

CLOCK TOWER DONOR

SON SUES FOR MAINTENANCE DESTITUTE AND NEARLY BLIND [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 27. Robert E. Green, the donor of clock towers to Sumner and New Brighton, appeared as defendant in a maintenance suit in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when he was sued by his son, Frederick Ernest Green, of Sydney, carpenter, who was described as a destitute person. Counsel for the son alleged that Green, sen., had spent large sums of money to vent his spite on his family, and to stop them from getting his money. Green, sen., was 83 or 84 years of age. He made an offer to the Christchurch City Council to give the city a statue at a cost of between £I,OOO and £2,000, but the council refused the offer, declaring that defendant should make proper provision for his family. Immediately after this anonymous offers were made of gift clock towers to Brighton and Sumner, and subsequent events proved that Green ; sen., had made the offers. He received an annuity of £7 a week. Cecil Green, a son, said his brother, Frederick, had been unemployed since 1930. Frederick could hardly see, bad no prospects of work, and was abso-, lately destitute. ’