POOR FAMILY’S WINDFALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3526, 19 August 1926, Page 2

POOR FAMILY’S WINDFALL.

Auckland,- Tuesday. An exce2>tion to the rule that to those who have shall be given is provided by the experience which befell the Hodgins family, resident at Hilton, one of the poorer work-ing-class suburbs of Adelaide. The husband was a butchery employee, and his earnings were barely sufficient to buy food and a little clothing for the family* which included four children.' A few .weeks ago a good fairy, as Airs Hodgins puts it, waved a wand, and a letter arrived telling her of her inheritance of £70,000. In sparse legal phraseology, a firm of English solicitors informed her that her uncle had died and left her this handsome legacy. To prove it was all in order, a remittance for £20,000. was enclosed, and the balance would be forwarded when the war bonds, some property in the Strand, London, and Chinese securities, were realised. Her first act was to send handsome money presents to other members of the family in straitened circumstances, a fine home has been purchased, a world tour mapped out, and the family now has a sixcylinder car.' Airs. Hodgins had her first visit to races, and backed three winners.