DRAMA OF WILL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 7

DRAMA OF WILL

Wife Says, "He Has Left Me Little" Becaupe of tho ' 'great help. given in his work," Mr Walter G. Ireland, druggist, of South end, England, left his seeretary the goodwill, eapital and stock of his business and £2,000, out of his £7,537 estate. Hia wife — who receives the balance during widowhood, after which it goes to the seeretary, less £500 for his daughter — said she was wondering how* she was going to mako ends meet. She lives at "Wimbome road, Southend. "Ko has left me » vqry small legacy," she said, "and sinee'his death I have hafl an allowance of 25s * woek. "To his son my husband left nothing, although he had been with him in thc - business for a while. His daughter in left with a very snm.ll lCgacy if I die," Miss Eiloen Ethel Beveridge, the seeretary, tdld the Daily Sketch: "The business, has been my life fot 36 years. Twenty-five years ago tho firrn sultered a very heavy lots, and 1 w6rked with Mr Ireland to pay off thu debts. "F6r years I worked without a salary, putting in as many as 12 hours a day. "We made do with snacks of food in the offiee, stinting ourselves, malting . sacriflces, and working like niggers. For the last eight years Mr Ireland was in poor health and I managed the business. "During the last eight months I have been solely in charge, Mr Ireland being in a nursing home in Eastbourne,".