BARON S ESTATE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1929, Page 6

BARON S ESTATE

PROVISION OF AVILL

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(Received, this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 4:

V'The tobacco millionaire; Bernhard* Baron, made a • .characteristic will. About a score, of employees., and per-., sonal servants, received" one hundred to .five, hundred Carreras' shires/each at present worth over £l3. One house-' maid gets fifty shares. The will appoints five executors -and - , trustees,, in-' eluding his son Louis and Lord Reading, who gets .five thousand sterling. The will direct^O- cremation of the bqdy, asljes f jjo be deposited in the Jewish synagogue at AVillesden with a small Union' Jack and Stars and ■Stripes'. . E! 3A 3 .% 3 ? >A : - ■

The factoiy shall be closed on tlie funeral day to enable employees' ‘‘whoni [ really loWd,” to attend the funeral. He hopes thej r will all attend, but wishes tlie sinipleSt- ceremony.— - in order to avoid law suits, the wi’ provides that if the executors and ‘trustees disagree,;; his r.son’s'.views shall be filial and decisive. - 'All legacies shall lie paid free of death duty. When all the bequests are paid 70 per cent goes to members of the family on trust in named proportions. Thirty per cent becomes a charity trust.

Baron allots sixty thousand sterling to certain Jewish charities and the distribution of the remainder is left to the discretion oif the trustees, in the proportion of one-fifth to Jewish charities and four-fifths to Christian. “ I loved my Christian brethren as much as Jewish,” he said. Tlie solicitors estimate that. Baron, was’worth'five millions sterling. "Death duties absorb two’millions, thus charities will receive one million. >' • ,7 Y7~:'Ty7i

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