DAUGHTERS TO COLLECT RENT

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 3

DAUGHTERS TO COLLECT RENT

LONDON. Nov. 7. Mr Henry Cnrlhury Brown, Finchley Rr-.ul, X.W.. owrenr of considerable estate in London and in I crested in .Messrs I). E. N'ewga.s and Co., Ltd., warehousemen. Silver street, E.C.. who died in July, left estate of the gross value of £1000,007, with net personality £10,539. Bequeathing to his two daughters blocks of property, be declared it to be bis wish that they should tlunesolvos collect the rents. lie also directed that the Public Trustee should not, in any circumstance. I.e appointed to act as a trustee of Ids estate. “ I did not know anything of t lie first clause,” said cue of Mr Cadbury Brown's daughters yesterday, “although for some years I have keen asso iated with n:y father’s business affairs. He has, however, always shown a particular intere-t in eccentric wills.” A sou told a reporter last night:--- “ My father intended that my sisters should attend as much as possible to their business affairs themselves. He was always itver.se front management. especially 'where liitance was concerned, and much of it was being left to agents. I do not think he meant that the rents were to be culled for from door to door by my sisters in person, but simply that they were to superintend the collection. “ The second clause expresses the strong lobjeotion be always had to State administration. He contended that a Public Trustee •could never administer the estate of a privata.person ns it should he administered, and that it was a mistake over to place it in the hands of anybody hut a member of the family.”