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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 264, 1 July 1932, Page 5

It was announeed in March, 1931, that the will of the late Montague Napier, millionaire engineering manufacturer, who had died in the previous January, made no. provision for his wife. He left £3,000 each to his secretaries, Annie Parrington and Edith Quinton; £10,000 in cash, his proparties at Dieppe, and all his considerahle effects there and his household effects at Cannes, on the French Riviera, to Mrs Norah Mary Fryer, wife of his medical adviser," a life annuity of £1,500 to his son Carill, and smaller annuities to each of his other children. The residue of the estate, amounting to ahout £700,000, was left in trust for life to Mrs Fryer, after which it was to go to aid the advancement of caneer research. Mrs Napier and her husband agreed to separate 15 years ago. She hrought the present action because a elause was inserted in the will disinheriting* the children should they contest it.