BEQUEST IN WILL

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1933, Page 4

BEQUEST IN WILL

£IOO,OOO, FOR CANTERBURY MAN.

(Per Ptess Association, Copyright).

CHRISTCHURCH, October 16. A fortune of £IOO,OOO, according to a London press cable, has been left to Mr John Anderson, of Christchurch, by his late cousin, Mr Andrew Gibson, .•shipowner, of Liverpool England, who left altogether an estate of £699,913. \ I When a press cable message anI nouncing the bequest was referred u> ) !Mr John Anderson to-night, he saitL ! that, by the last English mail, he had received a letter from his cousin’s lawyers informing him that lie was » j beneficiary under his cousin’s will and ! that lie would share in the residue of J tile estate. The letter from the lawyers stated, also, that his (Anderson’s) share, on realisation, would amount to a sum considerably less than that ! mentioned in the cable news. *

. Mr Anderson, who is 83 years ot age, is one of the survivors of the band of Canterbury p.’lgrims who arrived by the ship George Seymour, with his parents in 1850. For many years Air John Anderson was head of the well-known engineering firm of Anderson’s Ltd., which his father developed.