Believes in Luck Now

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 389, 25 June 1928, Page 1

Believes in Luck Now

FORTUNE FOR AUCKLAND WOMAN Found Four-Leafed Clover ON Friday last, Miss Ivy B. Brown, of 19 Wynyard Road, Mount Eden, picked up a four-leafed clover while visiting her dressmaker. She said she did not believe in luck. Later in the afternoon she read in The Sun that under the terms of a judgment in the Probate Court, London, she will receive £.10,000. But that is not all. Under the terms of the will of another uncle, Miss Brown and her three brothers will receive three-twelfths of £300,000, bringing her share up to approximately £28,750.

The £IO.OOO is to come from the •state of her uncle, Mr. Charles Joseph Brown, a Newport banker who died last year. A will had been made by the late Mr. Brown in January, 1927, in favour of the four children of his brother, Mr. G. H. Brown, of Auckland, but after his death his housekeeper produced a will dated May 12, 1927, bequeathing the estate, valued at £50,000, to her. Will Contested On the ground that the will was not properly executed by Mr. Brown, and that he was of unsound mind at the time, it was contested by the beneficiaries of the former will, but an agreement was reached whereby the estate should be divided between the housekeeper and the three nephews and niece living in New Zealand. They are Mr. Ernest B. Brown, of Sumner, Christchurch; Mr. William J. Brown, of Feilding; Mr. L. W. Brown, of Hamilton and Miss Ivy Brown, of Auckland. The estate of £300,000 is to be divided under the terms of the will of their uncle Mr. William James Brown, aenior partner in the banking firms of William Williams Brown and Company, Leeds, and Brown, Jensen and Company, of London. In the family there are 24 nephews and nieces, said Miss Brown to a Sun representative this morning. She etated that a number of them were of the Catholic faith, and the nieces belonging to that part of the family were only to receive between them onetwelfth, and the nephews threetwelfths. Miss Brown returned from a visit to her English relatives last year, and U was only two days after her return, on December 19, that she heard of the death of Mr. William Brown. Her other uncle, Mr. Charles Brown, died while Miss Brown was on a fishing expedition in Canada in the 6ummer of J&st year. A WEALTHY FAMILY Both Mr. William and Mr. Charles crown had been left a considerable sum of money by their father, stated ■Miss Brown. Her grandfather, who made a fortune during the Crimean v »ar, was the son of William Brown, the Bank of London and Leeds, his ire being a daughter of Isaac Duncan. of Philadelphia, who was also Ve jy wealthy. Mis« Brown has spent much of her ime in England, and expects to return jjcre shortly. During the war she T a8 * a canteen worker at Beaver Hut. r-ondon. and will doubtless be familiar ° many of the members of the New e &iand Expeditionary Force. Miss

Brown is a very keen angler, and will devote much of her time in the future to that pastime. In reply to a Sun representative, Miss Brown said she was not very excited when she received the news. A woman in the house where she was living had taken ill a few days before, and she had been kept busy nursing her. Very much in the manner of one bearing up bravely under a disappointment, she added: “That does take your mind off things.”