THE FIGHTER FUND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 247, 31 July 1941, Page 8

THE FIGHTER FUND.

MR ALMA BAKER’S LEGACY. (P.A.) . AUCKLAND, July. 30. . A legacy to the British Empire of Spitfire and Hurricane, fighters is contained in the will of the late Mr Charles Alma Baker, of the (Federated Malay States, a rubber estate and tin mine owner. Mr Baker, who was widely known in New Zealand as a stock and station owner and a big game fisherman, died at Penang in April last. Probate of his will relating to his New Zealand estate of two stock runs at Waikato Heads, valued at under £50,000, has been granted. Mr Baker was the owner of properties in England, Australia, and New Zealand, in addition to' rubber and tin mine interests in the Federated Malay States where he settled, in 1889. In a codicil to his will Mr Baker relates that since the commencement of the present war ho had made provision in cash to the utmost limit of his moans for the purchase of fighter aircraft for the Empire through the Air Ministry, London, for which 'he had to curtail a portion of his expenditure which otherwise would have been applied to personal needs. Because of his regard for the Empire and his concern for its ultimate victory in the war, he desired that after his death his executors and trustees should continue, as far as possible, to apply the proceeds of the estate in a like manner. It was his desire that sufficient income should be made available in this way that the cost ol fighter aircraft would bo contributed to by his estate every throe or four months.