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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1932, Page 8

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FORTUNE LOST. LONDON, March 13. The birth o': a. baby at Brighton has losti a fortune to Brighton Corporation, and doomed the hopes of hundreds o-> widow's in the tow'n.

For six long years these widows hav? lived in hope, ever since the death of Sir John George Blaker. '> 'Sr John started life as a grocer s apprentice;- He lived to be four times mayor of Brighton. He died leaving £290,000. Hie left behind a, will in which he remembered the needy ot the town. The residue of his estate Sir John le'H, to his son, Sir Reginald Blaker; then, in trust, two thirds foe the children of Sir Reginald, and the remainder for the children of his daughter, Jessie Newington. Rut if his two children should have neither sons nor daughters, the money was to be divided between nrielitoii Cm- oratieo for 'buying an 1 b yiiur o"t public recreation grounds and narks; and Widows and d”.""hl: ,, Ps <T men who bad naid noor rates in Brighton for not less tbfiiii five years. F'vh wcma.n was to have an nmaiitv of i n) s. It ’>-|v s e," fbis that. lb fl inuv vei’ished ’t-do" r s of B' - ic r| ito" l>ni*t their hopes. It was a castle in the air \ Jn,rb f-b’lf ills) bn.ni] bo’’ll ,to c ‘i** Recrinnld "ml Blaker at, theiV '"'mo in IVru.il>,a Park, near Brighton. Hr"’ name is Anne. So vn.Lbes the widows’ dreams of i, >n sbjUbuTs a week -ten shillings that ■■-’>""1 a little oomfcrl in penurioi’s old ace. Sir Pe'rillalrl non- ihiH-VrfWr, M’s old is a. li’.M-ist/>r and snorfsmnn, Hn mo.-i'ied in 1930 "MGs Sheila Cran, of Morrow, near Guildford.