BEQUESTS UNDER WILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 16

BEQUESTS UNDER WILL

LATE SIR ROBERT STOUT ESTATE LESS THAN £20,000 Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. Probate of the will of the late Sir Robert Stout, formerly Chief Justice of New Zealand, has been granted by Mr. Justice Reed, the estate being sworn at a value of under £20,000. The trustees and executors are Sir Robert’s sons, Mr. John Logan Stout, S.M., of Palmerston North, Dr. Robert Stout and Dr. Thomas Duncan Mao gregor Stout, of Wellington. The will gives £250 to the Gilbert Bain Hospital, in Lerwick, Shetland Isles, and £IOO to the Lerwick primary school. The latter devise directs that the money be invested by the schoolmaster and the yearly income expended as a prize to the best pupil in work and character of the year. The residue of the estate is to be divided among Sir Robert’s children, Mr. John Logan Stout, Drs. Robert Stout and Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, Mr. Olaf Stout and Mrs. Janet Osla Holmden. To his children also Sir Robert left in equal shares all hfe printed and published writings of life own authorship and all his pictures. The remainder of his books are to be divided by the trustees in such a man-' ner as they consider suitable between, the Victoria University College and any primary or secondary schools in. New Zealand. To the Shetland Society of Wellington Sir Robert bequeathed all his books, maps and literature dealing with Norway, Orkney and Shetland! Islands and with Scandinavian lore. Sir Robert was a native of Lerwick, the county town of the Shetland Islands. His father was a merchant and landed proprietor, who sent hi:6 son Robert to the beat school in th's island, one which ranked high amonj the academies of northern Scotland.