FORTUNE FOR CATS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 2

FORTUNE FOR CATS

£12,000 To Found Home lor Strays When Alderman William Boote,- of Liverpool, died ten yeaTs ago, he left a sum of £12,000 in trust for his widow ■with directions that on her death the money was to be used to build a cats' home. Mrs. Boote died recently, and it is anticipated that very shortly the cats' home will be established. In his will Alderman Boote set out his dcsires in dotail. He asked that £1000 should be set aside for the land and building, that the home should be for stray cats, that boarder cats should.be admitted a£ acharge, and the home should. be governed by- three trustees appointed by the Public -Trustee. Tho alterman made cats a life in-, terest. It was his practice to carry pieces of cooked meat in his poclcet and feed any strange cat lie met. Afc his home in Deane Eoad, Liv«wpOol, he provided daily a substantial mcal of tinned salmon and large quautitics of fresh millc which he put in his garden on plates and saucers for cats. He bouglit a caso of tinned Scilmon every day to provide for this meal. In her widowliood, Mrs. Boote kept un the cat kindness work in memory of her husband. "The . bequest may seem strange," said a relative to an interviewed, "but no one wishes to quarrel with it. He made his money himself. and he had a perfect right to do what he wished with it. "Some people may think an action like this insane. I personally. would rather liave seen the money go to_ a children 's home, but a man can oxerciso his own whim without aslring anyone's permission. After all, he had no children, so who is to complain?" *