MR. WILLIAM T. DODDS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 34, 3 November 1937, Page 6

MR. WILLIAM T. DODDS

On Saturday lagt'neWs was. receiyed. of th'e death iu' Eiigland, on September. 18 of Mr. "WUliain.-T. Dodds/at'tlie ..age of 86 years. ' For/ s.eVeral/years .Mr, Dodds occupied a liigh and responsible. position in the New." Zealand : Loan- and Mercantile Agericy Cdmpaiiy, , Llniitcd. Altliougb he left .'New /Zealand- many years ago, lie w'ill no doubt be rcuiicm-' bered by many of ibis *old,"frxends. After many yGars .of . seryice, he wasoffered . the position of cliief inspectoir for New Zealand, but he had made up his mind to leave New Zealand and spend tlie rest of his. days in England. Ho was born in "that country, and had an cxcellent commcrcial' training bci'ore lie decidcd to come to this Dominion— or Colony, as it was known in those days. ,. . lteturning to England, Mr. Dodds became. associated with the .late Mr. Thomas Russell. When Mr Russell died Mr. Dodds was appointed managilig executor for tlie Russell estate. For I probate - puiposes th© Russell c.^tat©

was valued ' at a little over £100,00.0, and by able manangement Mr. Dodds was . able to increase ; the value to . eonsiderably over £1,000,000. He did that in.the successful development of a large cemeht company, whose, headquartera were ' in Sydney. • To show what tliis estate ;meant t0 the - many - beneficiaries under Mr.' Russell's will 'it may be mentioned that a' lady who had 'an interest as a residu'ary le'gatee on' the death, of her uncle} Mr. Russell, owing to-the prosperity- of- the cem'ent company / avas drawing as 'much' as £1000 p.er annum, and she had no expeqtations of benefiting unde'r the bequest. • ; ?■ .'